Decoded - The Code 7 Magazine

	September 21, 2023, 9:30 am

Band:TWELVE STRING HIGH VOL.3

Album:TWELVE STRING HIGH VOL.3

Label:YOU ARE THE COSMOS

Format:2LP + CD

Genre:PSYCHEDELIC 12 STRING

Volume Three. The last one!) 22 bands around the world playing 12-string electric guitars! Limited Edition (500 copies, no repress) TRACK LISTING 1. SCOTT GAGNER 2. THE SMALL SQUARE 3. BENNETT WILSON POOLE 4. RAVING BEAUTIES 5. THE MORNING LINE 6. THE CITRADELS 7. BILLY & DOLLY 8. ATHANOR 9. JULIAN BAILINSON 10. THE JIGSAW SEEN 11. LOS VALENDAS 12. CO-PILGRIM 13. THE NERK TWINS 14. SID GRIFFIN 15. THE MODULATORS 16. QUANT 17. KEITH & FRANCINE SMART 18. LANNIE FLOWERS 19. HERB EIMERMAN 20. RICHARD SNOW & THE INLAWS 21. PORTABLE RADIO 22. THE ARMOIRES

Band:TWELVE STRING HIGH VOL.3

Album:TWELVE STRING HIGH VOL.3

Label:YOU ARE THE COSMOS

Format:CD

Genre:PSYCHEDELIC 12 STRING

Band:MYSTERY

Album:THEATRE OF THE MIND (2018 EDITION)

Label:UNICORN DIGITAL

Format:CDD

Genre:Prog Rock

1996, the first full length MYSTERY Album was released, Theatre of the Mind was also the very first CD to be released on the Unicorn Records label. Recorded on 16 tracks, just at the beginning of the internet, the album made its way slowly, mostly under the radar of the progressive rock community. Although the album contained all the elements and is considered the blue print for the music of MYSTERY, no one would predict that MYSTERY would become one of the most popular prog band to come out of Canada, nor did anyone could predict that Unicorn Records would release in the next 2 decades more than one hundred albums. 22 years later, Unicorn Digital is proud to re issue the first MYSTERY full length album. In 2017 the 16 track audio tapes have been restored and transferred in digital. Completely re-mixed by Michel St-Pere in the best tradition of the MYSTERY sound while respecting the original performance of the band also featuring Gary Savoie, Benoit Dupuis, Michel Painchaud, original artwork created by late drummer Stephane Perreault and mastering by bassist Richard Addison. The album released in DIGIPAK will also be released on vinyl via our partner Polish label Oskar Records. 50 minutes, 10 songs plus one bonus track ( not available on the vinyl version )

Band:COSMOGRAF

Album:WHEN AGE HAS DONE ITS DUTY

Label:PLANE GROOVY

Format:LP

Genre:Prog Rock

Vinyl release for this 2011 cosmograf album. Based around main man Robin Armstrong s personal experiences as a boy, he has remixed and remastered the original, to ...address some of the issues that were less than perfect on the original recording. Many of the original guitar, bass and vocal parts have been re-recorded, new string arrangements added and a more dynamic low volume level master produced... Limited edition of just 300 copies, double 180g audiophile vinyl, Individually numbered, gold embossed Gatefold cover TRACK LISTING Side One Into This World 11:15 Blacksmith's Hammer 5:01 Side Two On Which We Stand 9:28 Bakelite Switch 7:36 Side Three Memory Lost 7:03 When Age Has Done Its Duty 13:02 Side Four White Light Awaits 5:49 Dog On The Clee 3:30 WAHDID Ambient Remix 6:00

Band:EMBROOKS, THE

Album:WE WHO ARE

Label:STATE RECORDS

Format:LP/CD/DOWNLOAD

Genre:GARAGE PUNK/BEAT/PSYCH/FREAKBEAT

Formed at the tail end of 1996, The Embrooks (Alessandro Cozzi-Lepri guitar, vocals; Mole bass, vocals; Lois Tozer drums) were initially influenced by the moody, minor key mid-60s US garage common to the New England area, and made an LP and 2 singles in that style. They quickly changed course towards the more aggressive sounds coming out of the UK and Europe in that same period, a transitional style which came to known as freakbeat. Here, the band found their true calling, and delivered their highest profile LP, Our New Day for Bomp s Voxx imprint. Numerous tours through the UK and Europe were undertaken, and they even found time to cross the pond into the US and Canada on a number of occasions. The follow-up LP, Yellow Glass Perspections saw the band incorporating more psychedelic elements to their sound, but still very much rooted in the aggressive Mod-Rock that had served them well. As external commitments became ever more time-consuming, the band amicably parted in mid-2005, but now they're back!! Strong as ever, a little wider round the waist and greyer around the gills (the Expanding Waistline Inevitable as a friend was kind enough to point out!), but ready to knock your socks off! 2016 s comeback Nightmare 45 saw the group on top form, and now they re ready to deliver their first full-length LP since reconvening! Limited to 1000 copies on 180gram vinyl with CD and download included Bespoke front-laminated flipback -style gatefold sleeve 10 original new songs, 2 covers, originally by The Hollies and The Lost Souls Full analogue recording to 8-track tape TRACK LISTING 1 Going But Not Gone 2 Nightmare 3 Don't Look At Me 4 Human Living Vampire 5 Have You Ever Loved Somebody 6 Riot On Kingsland Road 7 Til Tomorrow 8 I'm Coming Home 9 Baby From The South 10 Peace Of Mind 11 Hang Up 12 You Can If You Want

Band:LOST SOULS, THE

Album:THE LOST SOULS

Label:LION PRODUCTIONS

Format:CD

Genre:PSYCH

"The Lost Souls never released any records, yet the meager recorded evidence that survives indicates that they were one of the finest unknown American groups of the mid-'60s, able to write both catchy British Invasion-type rockers and, in their latter days, experimental psychedelic pieces with unusual tempo changes and song structures. The band were also unusual in their occasional embellishment of the typical period guitar-bass-drums lineup with flute, sax, and mandolin. Although popular in their Cleveland hometown, they broke up in 1968 to attend college. Rhythm guitarist Denny Carleton, who wrote and sang some of their best material, went on to briefly join The Choir, their chief (and more successful) rivals." -Richie Unterberger. The music scene in Cleveland in the mid to late 1960's was ripe with talent: the James Gang with Joe Walsh and Glenn Schwartz, The Choir, Eric Carmen (pre-Raspberries), Glass Harp with Phil Keaggy, the Damnation of Adam Blessing... and the Lost Souls. Of all those bands, only the Lost Souls never released a record. Then again, they were in high school, trying to navigate dress codes and bullies-and playing in front of a couple thousand fans when not suspended. Sure, they lost a battle of the bands at Teen Fair 1968, but it was to the James Gang with Joe Walsh. And somehow it is the Lost Souls who emerge from that time and place with the greatest mystique and some of the most adventurous music, music which few have heard. Lost Souls main songwriter Denny Carleton released a cassette of the band's original recordings in 1984. It received airplay on hundreds of college and public radio stations in the USA (and around the world), and garnered glowing reviews... and that was it, until now. Not only is this the first time the music of the Lost Souls has been available since that cassette, our Lion Productions edition is the first release for many additional Lost Souls cuts, including alternate versions of key tracks like the insightful 'Things That Are Important' and 'I'm Falling' (the closest to a hit the band ever had), all taken from the original tapes and carefully mastered. Seven bonus tracks highlight the work of Lost Soul's main songwriter Denny Carleton (one-time member of The Choir, and more surprisingly, punk legends the Pagans); selections by The Choir, Moses, Milk and Carleton, many in all possible low-fi glory, recorded on various 4-Track devices, ranging from power-pop to grimy garage.

Band:MICHAEL LIVESLEY & BRAINWASHING HOUSE

Album:SIR HENRY AT RAWLINSON END

Label:guilty dog

Format:CD

Genre:SPOKEN WORD/COMEDY

In December 1978 Vivian Stanshall – lead singer of The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band – recorded his meisterwerk Sir Henry At Rawlinson End with sozzled aristocrat Sir Henry as the central character. The piece was described by The Telegraph as ‘Chariots of Fire meets Gormenghast’. In 2010, the piece was reVived by Liverpool actor and musician Michael Livesley at Liverpool’s Unity Theatre and then toured nationally at the London Palladium, the Millennium Dome, Bristol Old Vic, Buxton Opera House and the Edinburgh and Glastonbury Festivals. Sir Henry not only won an armada of five-star reviews in the national press but also the approval of Viv’s celebrity fans, including Stephen Fry, who declared: “Michael Livesley embodies to perfection the spirit and brilliance of Vivian Stanshall and adds his own measure of outrageous talent too.”
To celebrate Sir Henry’s 40th Anniversary Livesley and his band have joined forces with Rick Wakeman, Neil Innes and Susie Honeyman to once more reanimate the heroically drunk Sir Henry and the other grotesques who inhabit Rawlinson End.

Band:NEUROTIC FICTION

Album:PULP MUSIC

Label:SPECIALIST SUBJECT

Format:LP

Genre:Post Punk

South West four-piece Neurotic Fiction make groovy post-punk that pokes fun at our internal inadequacies. Having performed with the likes of Sacred Paws, Self Defense Family, Jeffrey Lewis, Martha, Makthaverskan and Breakfast Muff over the past three years, the band have a collective history of working within the UK DIY scene thanks to a bunch previous projects. Now coming together to channel the weaving riffs of the B-52’s, Neurotic Fiction create cathartic pop jams that try to find comfort and space in a world that doesn’t always seem so welcoming. These candid-yet-comical accounts of anxiety form a unique home on their debut album, Pulp Music, where jangly, urgent swells create a comforting call-to-action for anyone who’s ever felt like a bit of a dweeb.
Produced by John Hannon (Sauna Youth, Trash Kit), Pulp Music is the result of trying not to take life too seriously and owning the missteps we might make along the way. “It's about trying to overcome fear of doing something because of the perceived, unwanted side-effect,” adds Sinclair. “It’s about not being afraid to take risks and to learn from mistakes rather than being worried about fucking up.”

Band:SEID

Album:WELTSCHMERZ BABY!

Label:SULATRON RECORDS

Format:CD

Genre:PSYCH

When Sulatron started again, in 2006, release number one was the second Seid album „ Creatures of the Underworld“ on CD! Later, in 2012, their phantastic debut album „Among the Monster Flowers Again“ got a 10 years anniversary edition on vinyl via Sulatron. All is sold out in the meantime. For us, this outstanding band from Trondheim is one of the very best bands ever from Norway! Now we are proud to present you their new killer psychedelicrock album „Weltschmerz, Baby!“. The typical Seid triprock full of catchy and deep melodies, fuzzy guitars, powerful bass and drums, vintage keyboards and haunting vocals, this time in their own, norwegean language, what makes it even
more psychedelic! :-) By the way: The band is existing since 25 years!!!

Band:ASTRAL SON

Album:WONDERFUL BEYOND

Label:SULATRON RECORDS

Format:CD

Genre:PSYCH

“Wonderful Beyond” is the fourth album of the Dutch neo-psych project Astral Son by solo artist Leonardo and it gets released on CD by Sulatron Records again (the vinyl version will be released by Headspin). After spending one year for ‘Wonderful Beyond’ to evolve and grow. Pursuing his path of space rock, acid folk, seventies electronics and etheric eastern vibes, he managed to create an authentic new album. A warm tapestry of sound with songs that flow into each other, creating a dreamlike state. Reaching out to the sheer beauty of the psychedelic experience and colourful surrealistic visions. ‘Wonderful Beyond’ is the follow up of the incredible trilogy 'Gurumaya', 'Silver Moon' & 'Mind's Eye'. In this album you will find many connections to the trilogy and way beyond. What you can hear is, that Astral Son finds very much inspiration in early Pink Floyd and Gong and „Wonderful Beyond“ is like a peaceful and colourful dedication to this kind of music. CD limited to 500 copies, in Jewelcase.

Band:CHRIS CONNELLY

Album:BLOODHOUNDS

Label:ARMALYTE INDUSTRIES

Format:CDD

Genre:ALTERNATIVE

New solo album from Industrial alumnus Chris Connelly TRACK LISTING 1. Bloodhounds 2. Jump, Goddess, Jump 3. Ascension 4. A Farewell To Athens 5. Desolation Blues 6. AAISW 7. F-Birds 8. Anna Karina s Guide To Being Mesmerized 9. Encyclopdia Of Haunted Lovers 10. Our Last Conversation 11. I Figured It Would Be My Undoing 12. I Dream In Argentina 13. Richter Grey Stairs 14. Mirador, Matador, Minataur 15. Another Song About A Sculpture 16. Brush Stroke Blues Follows Chris s The Tide Stripped Bare album which sold out at Armalyte mailorder within a week. Chris has been a member of such high profile bands as Ministry, Revolting Cocks, The Damage Manual and Pigface. CD edition comes with a mini poster of Christ.

Band:Northumbria

Album:VINLAND

Label:Cryo Chamber

Format:CD

Genre:DRONE/GUITAR/AMBIENT

Vinland is the third and last album in Northumbria’s trilogy inspired by the Norse discovery of Canada. The journey was long and hard, you lost good men sailing across the never ending sea, but now you stand on foreign land. The father of gods watches over you as his ravens circle the funeral pyre to bring his warriors home. The rocks here emanate a low hum, the silent wind carries the scent of honey and at nightly camp bestial cries echo between the mountains. Your men speak in hushed voices as the dark creeps close, they mutter about this being the territory of new gods. This dreamy land is getting to your people, some men wake screaming in the blackest hour from visions delivered by the dark below. But for you this expedition is one of enlightenment, the fresh rivers fill your mouth with the light of Yggdrasil, forests carry whispers from the mead halls beyond and as such have you convinced that this is the pathway between the worlds of gods and men. Using guitar and bass, and recording their improvised compositions live, Jim Field and Dorian Williamson create a deep textured sound world. Evoking the ancient wonder that the Norse explorers must have felt discovering Vinland, the Windswept Land.

Band:DAHLIA'S TEAR

Album:THROUGH THE NIGHTFALL GRANDEUR

Label:Cryo Chamber

Format:CD

Genre:DRONE/GUITAR/AMBIENT

We welcome Dahlia's Tear back to Cryo Chamber. After 6 years of silence this veteran dark ambient producer is finally back with a new album. Through the Nightfall Grandeur is a dreamy and multi-layered melancholic journey through worlds both inner and outer. "The dreamer watches you from atop the onyx tower. You are in his domain now, a world within a world beyond the dreamsphere where reality is born anew. Snow flakes melt on your neck as you peer out over a jagged landscape, is this real? You've asked yourself this question more times than you can remember, awakening from each dream within a new dream. Reality has grown into an old weathered memory, left behind at the surface of that first deep dive into the subconscious." The album revolves around a spiritual awakening where the shattering loneliness of the protagonist fuels the search for meaning. We follow through moonbathed nights on a journey through dark abysses, snowy mountains and desolate moors. A detailed and layered album that takes many repeat listens to fully explore all the complexities, one mystery at a time unto enlightenment. Track Listing: 1. Encroaching Shadows Beckon to Chase the Fleeing Light 2. The Keeper of Broken Dreams and Tattered Spirits 3. Forlorn Whispers on a Moonlit Path 4. The Frozen Echoes of the Endless Moor 5. Bitter Silence of Desolate Steps 6. Drowning in Delusions of Grandeur 7. Lamenting Memories Long Past in the Remnants of Darkness 8. Drifting into the Void Grasping at Fading Starlight 9. Lost in the Crystalline Enigma

Band:LIRA DEL BACCANO

Album:SI NON SEDES IS - MMVII

Label:Subsound Records

Format:2LP

Genre:STONER DOOM PSYCH PROG METAL

L'IRA DEL BACCANO & SUBSOUND RECORDS presents the FIRST TIME EVER official release in Double Gatefold Vinyl and DIgipak of the band instrumental first album from 2007 " SI NON SEDES IS...LIVE MMVII(originally and untill today only available in digital download) After the last two critically acclaimed studio albums : "TERRA 42 (2014)" & " PARADOX HOURGLASS (2017)" The Doomdelic Instrumental Space Rockers L'IRA DEL BACCANO decided that was time for their very first instrumental effort to have a physical release after 11 years. All these 2018 versions had Spectral & Balance correction by Pisi Mastering Studio The album was recorded live during two concerts when the band's name was still LOOSIN'o'FREQUENCIES (formed in 1996,with a mcd produced by the Guru of Doom Paul Chain) and marked the official change of the band in "instrumental". The Italians then decided to chance name after the mix was ready and right before opening their "MySpace" page. During 2008 the album started to circulate in the underground with enthusiastic reviews from small blogs to site as Roadburn, Aural Innovation,Bad Acid ,The Sludgelord and also magazines as Decibel Magazine (below some reviews from 2008 to 2010) TRACK LISTING VINYL WITH TWO BONUS TRACKS ( 6 and 7 ) 1. Doomdance 2. Sussurri di Nascita Celeste / Grateful to Jerry 3. 875 4. Don Bastiano 5. Tempus Inane Flago Requiem Spatiumque Furori 6. Live Jam On Sussurri Theme 7. Doomdance Apocalypse 80 Mix

Band:LIRA DEL BACCANO

Album:SI NON SEDES IS - MMVII (

Label:Subsound Records

Format:2LP

Genre:STONER DOOM PSYCH PROG METAL

Band:LIRA DEL BACCANO

Album:SI NON SEDES IS - MMVII

Label:Subsound Records

Format:CDD

Genre:STONER DOOM PSYCH PROG METAL

Band:KOTIOMKIN

Album:LO ALBICOCCO AL CURARO - DECAMERON 666

Label:Subsound Records

Format:CDD

Genre:STONER DOOM PSYCH

Buffalmacco and Fra' Tazio wake up in Hell, in the Circle of the Lustful. In this bad beginning, the two cronies begin to tell each other their latest vicissitudes, in order to remember what brought them to eat those strangely bitter apricots... The fate of a nun seems to join the two damned souls. She hanged herself for shame in the cloister of the convent. But the woman's father does not accept his loss and, overcome by sorrow, evokes an infernal Fiend and puts his trust in Him. Among ancient rites, lustful violences, unholy events and dreadful misfortunes takes place this dark Renaissance story where Desperate Revenge feasts with Iglorious Death! The Kotiomkin were born in 2012 from the idea of Enzo P. Zeder to composing soundtrack for imaginary films of which he himself is the author of the subject. They are inspired by the great masters of Italian soundtracks of the '60s/'70s/'80s filtering everything through a wall of eclecticisms, distortions, low frequencies and vibrations. For the composition of their third work "Lo Albicocco Al Curaro - Decameron 666"- there was a change of line up and the guitar was replaced by a massive use of vintage analogic synthesizers giving life to an album that crosses, transversally, different musical genres with an ever more relevant cinematographic imprint. The KOTIOMKIN are: Enzo P. Zeder (Bass, Analogic Synthesizers) Gianni Narcisi (Drums) TRACK LISTING 1. Fatal Commestio 2. Sexy Averno 3. Metti Lo Diavolo Ne Lo Convento 4. Vilan Chesserton 5. Satanasso Protettore delle Donne

Band:GORGOROTH

Album:DESTROYER

Label:SOULSELLER

Format:CD

Genre:Black Metal

19 years after its original release the classic Norwegian Black Metal album is presented again. With no further introduction needed, the early Norwegian black metal band Gorgoroth had been crushing everything on its path ever since their birth in 1992 and with this, their 4th studio album, things were no different. Introducing Gaahl on vocals on the opening track, and with guest appearances of Frost (Satyricon), Daimonion (Enslaved), Ares (Aeternus) in addition to the reaping vocal performance by legendary singer Pest, all under the supervising leadership of Infernus, the message was clear: total Norwegian black metal destruction! With art directions led by founding member Infernus, Destroyer, or about how to philosophize with the hammer now finally sees the darkness according to his wishes 100%. In addition of this special re-issue it comes with exclusive liner notes from Jon Metalion Kristiansen, of the mighty Slayer Mag. TRACK LISTING 1.Destroyer 2.Open the Gates 3.The Devil, the Sinner and his Journey 4. Om kristen Og Jödisk Tru 5. På Slagmark langt mod Nord 6. Blodoffer 7. The Virginborn

Band:VED BUENS ENDE

Album:WRITTEN IN WATERSâ€¦

Label:SOULSELLER

Format:CDD

Genre:AVANTGARDE METAL

Re-issue of the timeless masterpiece! Ved Buens Ende existed for some years in the mid nineties and besides one demo the album Written in waters... was their only weapon of choice. A stand-alone classic and absolute unique album, not only due to the unusual mix of jazz influenced sections and aggressive black metal blast beats and vocals. Crafted by masterminds Carl-Michael Eide (Virus, Aura Noir,etc), Skoll (Arcturus,Ulver) and Vicotnik (Dodheimsgard a.o.) Written in waters... is considered an absolute classic from back in the Norwegian days. Officially licensed from Misanthropy records, now band-approved re-issued by Soulseller Records! Longtime sold out classic album finally re-issued! Features members from Dodheimsgard,Arcturus,Aura Noir,Ulver,etc! TRACK LISTING 1. I sang for the swans 07:01 2. You, that may wither 04:54 3. It's magic 05:25 4. Den saakaldte 08:49 5. Carrier of wounds 07:40 6. Coiled in wings 07:04 7. Autumn leaves 05:07 8. Remembrance of things past 08:54 9. To swarm deserted away 02:14

Band:VED BUENS ENDE

Album:WRITTEN IN WATERSâ€¦

Label:SOULSELLER

Format:2LP

Genre:AVANTGARDE METAL

LIMITED GATEFOLD BLACK DOUBLE VINYL; Official reâ€issue of the timeless masterpiece! Re-issue of the timeless masterpiece! Ved Buens Ende existed for some years in the mid nineties and besides one demo the album Written in waters... was their only weapon of choice. A stand-alone classic and absolute unique album, not only due to the unusual mix of jazz influenced sections and aggressive black metal blast beats and vocals. Crafted by masterminds Carl-Michael Eide (Virus, Aura Noir,etc), Skoll (Arcturus,Ulver) and Vicotnik (Dodheimsgard a.o.) Written in waters... is considered an absolute classic from back in the Norwegian days. Officially licensed from Misanthropy records, now band-approved re-issued by Soulseller Records! Longtime sold out classic album finally re-issued! Features members from Dodheimsgard,Arcturus,Aura Noir,Ulver,etc! TRACK LISTING 1. I sang for the swans 07:01 2. You, that may wither 04:54 3. It's magic 05:25 4. Den saakaldte 08:49 5. Carrier of wounds 07:40 6. Coiled in wings 07:04 7. Autumn leaves 05:07 8. Remembrance of things past 08:54 9. To swarm deserted away 02:14

Band:VED BUENS ENDE

Album:WRITTEN IN WATERSâ€¦(RED VINYL)

Label:SOULSELLER

Format:2LP

Genre:AVANTGARDE METAL

LIMITED GATEFOLD TRANSPARENT RED DOUBLE VINYL; Official reâ€issue of the timeless masterpiece! Ved Buens Ende existed for some years in the mid nineties and besides one demo the album “Written in waters…” was their only weapon of choice. A standâ€alone classic and absolute unique album, not only due to the unusual mix of jazz influenced sections and aggressive black metal blast beats and vocals. Crafted by masterminds Carlâ€Michael Eide (Virus, Aura Noir,etc), Skoll (Arcturus,Ulver) and Vicotnik (Dodheimsgard a.o.) “Written in waters…” is considered an absolute classic from back in the Norwegian days. Officially licensed from Misanthropy records, now bandâ€approved reâ€issued by Soulseller Records!

Band:BULLETS, THE

Album:BOPPIN' 'N' SCREAMIN'

Label:WESTERN STAR

Format:CD

Genre:ROCKABILLY

A collection of the vinyl EPs released by The Bullets Tracklist 1. Buzz For The Blues 2. Loaded Gun 3. Somebody Else 4. Missin Link 5. Thunderbird 6. She Gotta Move 7. Eye on You 8. Kiss Bitten Baby 9. Ba-Boom 10. Hobo Man 11. Let The Bad Times Roll 12. Outa Control 13. Boppin n Screamin

Band:HENRY GIRLS, THE

Album:DECEMBER MOON

Label:BESTE! UNTERHALTUNG

Format:CD

Genre:IRISH AMERICANA

The Henry Girls are an Irish folk, Americana and roots music group. The band consists of three sisters: Karen, Lorna and Joleen McLaughlin. All three have studied music and are multi-instrumentalist, utilizing fiddles, ukulele, banjo, guitar, harp, mandolin, piano, and accordion. The Henry Girls sings often in harmony in the tradition of the 30s.

Band:HENRY GIRLS, THE

Album:LOUDER THAN WORDS

Label:BESTE! UNTERHALTUNG

Format:CD

Genre:IRISH AMERICANA

Band:HENRY GIRLS, THE

Album:FAR BEYOND THE STARS

Label:BESTE! UNTERHALTUNG

Format:CD

Genre:IRISH AMERICANA

Band:LOS RETROVISORES

Album:DESMELENE EN EL QUINTO

Label:SOUNDFLAT RECORDS

Format:vinyl 7

Genre:BEAT/FUNK/SOUL/ROCK

After their second LP and a few 7 es, the Spaniards LOS RETROVISORES are ready to present their brand new 45 on SOUNDFLAT RECORDS in cooperation with Bcore Records: Desmelene En El Quinto ! As the coverartwork of the EP already gives away, the sound of it is musically located a little more towards the end of the 60s. Starting off with the brilliant and highly addictive Un, Dos, Tres , they generate an instant dance-mood! A groovy beat, a highly catchy melody, vocal harmonies, a cool fuzzy guitar and the wind section to top off a full sound. While they are predominantly influenced by the 60s, the Catalan band always keeps their Spanish temper within their songwriting, and not just through the fact that they all contain Spanish vocals. Pedir Perdon features this attitude nicely, especially through the Spanish sounding wind section. With Dia De Suerte they included a fantastic Spanish coverversion of the 60s dance hymn Looking For Something Better by THE RO-D-YS among their own compositions. No Puedo Evitarlo has a more soulful, funky touch to it and keeps you in a good dancing mood till the last second! A fantastic EP by a brilliant band, that not only keeps the 60s spirit alive, but rather updates it in a fresh and infectious way! TRACK LISTING A: 1. Un, Dos, Tres 2. Pedir Perdon B: 6. Dia De Suerte 7. No Puedo Evitarlo

Band:SATELLITERS, THE

Album:NOTHING LEFT TO TELL

Label:SOUNDFLAT RECORDS

Format:vinyl 7

Genre:GARAGE/PUNK/ROCK

German 60s Garage Punkâ€heroes THE SATELLITERS just added a new 45 to their discography, and thereby yet another two outstanding modernâ€day 60s Garageâ€hits!
Since 25 years we have known and loved the characteristic SATELLITERSâ€signatureâ€sound, which mixes authentic 60s (recorded with original vintage equipment only) containing just the right amount of fuzzguitar, hammond organ, harp and a psychedelic Freakbeatâ€influence with superb songwriting and the unmistakable vocals of lead singer Steve. And this sound is exactly what you can expect to hear on this new 7”, which is an anniversary edition to celebrate the band's 25th birthday and comes in a brown papersleeve with an authentic vintage label, just like the original 60s Garage 45s. The Aâ€side “Nothing Left To Tell” intrigues with its prominent guitar, a catchy melody and a cool beat, while it reminds one a little of their famous songs such as “Lost In Time” and has no less hitâ€potential. The Bâ€side “You” will capture you just the same with a cool SEEDSâ€/MUSIC MACHINEâ€kind of mood to it. Once again two smashing hits by the German kings of 60s Garage – a true jewel for collectors, DJs and lovers of good music!

Band:TOMBOYS, THE

Album:HERE WE COME! THE TOMBOYS!

Label:SOUNDFLAT RECORDS

Format:LP

Genre:GARAGE/PUNK/ROCK

The Tomboys are a young 4â€piece girl band from Kobe, Japan that take classic rock mood and style and mash it up with modernâ€day pop music in a delightfullyâ€sweet powerpopâ€way that is taking Japan by storm and soon will take over the whole world! Their debutâ€LP “Here We Come! The Tomboys!” is not only covered in some very eyeâ€catching artwork, but its sound is equally catching! The “Theme Of The Tomboys” already summarizes very well what these four girls are all about – fun garageâ€popâ€punkâ€rock'n'roll with girly squeaky vocals and some crazy Japanese elements. A combination that is absolutely fun to listen to and highly addictive. “Go Merry Go!” is like a fun rock'n'roll party with punky guitarâ€sounds and a catchy melody, while “Saturday Night” sounds like a Japanese girly version of THE RAMONES, so you simply have to love these girls' straightforward sound! “Vacation” comes across as a cool, rocking song, that reminds one a little of the Japanese beatâ€kings THE NEATBEATS here and there, and“Ring Me” is a fun popâ€punkâ€tune that is absolutely catchy, just like the rest of this album. With “Fruit Candy” and “Koi No Deal 6700” they added two songs with Japanese vocals. Don't miss out on this fantastic LP that has conveys an immense portion of energy, fun and Japanese craziness!!

Band:WYLDE TRYFLES, THE

Album:GO FUZZ YOURSELF

Label:SOUNDFLAT RECORDS

Format:LP

Genre:GARAGE/PUNK/ROCK

THE WYLDE TRYFLES from Bordeaux, France, deliver an ultraâ€fuzzed out 60s punk mayhem. After their 10” “Upside Down” (SOMETHING WEIRD) the band now releases their incredible debut LP “Go Fuzz Yourself” on SOUNDFLAT RECORDS. THE WYLDE TRYFLES combine a punky fuzzguitar, crazy organ, a lot of energy and wylde, reverberating female vocals by powerful frontwoman Lubna Bangs. Highly influenced by 60s garagepunk that can be found on the BACK FROM THE GRAVEâ€compilations among others and the 80s garagepunk revivalâ€sound of bands such as THE GRAVEDIGGER V or THE PRIMATES, THE WYLDE TRYFLES deliver their very own cool mixture of raw and primitive garagepunk and rock'n'roll! Their own compositions, such as the screaming “No Means No” or the melodic “Heartbreaker” are just as catchy and wild as their wild coverversions of the garagepunkâ€classics such as THE SOUND EXPLOSION's “Hangover Baby”, “I'm Moving On” by EVIL and THE BENDERS' “Can't Tame Me”. A wylde 60s garagepunk debutâ€LP by THE WYLDE TRYFLES, that definitely should not be missing on your shelf!

Band:KING SALAMI AND THE CUMBERLAND 3

Album:TAINTED LOVE

Label:FOLC RECORDS

Format:vinyl 7

Genre:ROCK N ROLL

New ep of the best Rhythm & Blues-Punk band in Europe. No need to introduce them and no need to introduce the song that name the ep, one of the highlights of their gigs.
4 party songs for non-stop dancing!!!

Band:MODEL ROCKETS

Album:ARE BACK

Label:FOLC RECORDS

Format:vinyl 7

Genre:POWER POP

As the title of this ep says, “The Model Rockets Are Back”. Yes, one of the best powerâ€pop bands of the 90's, after 15 years with no record edition, give us an ep of 4 great songs (including a version of raspberries) that will not disappoint any of their fans lifelong. Great voices + great melodies + great musicians = GREAT SONGS

Band:PERALTA & SID GRIFFIN

Album:OLDER GUYS - COUNTRY BOY

Label:FOLC RECORDS

Format:vinyl 7

Genre:ROCK N ROLL

Sid Griffin joins forces with the Spanish band Peralta to pay tribute to The Flying Burritos Brothers with a cover of Older Guy. 1. Peralta & Sid Griffin “Older Guys” 2. Peralta “ Country Boy”

Band:JESSICA93

Album:GUILTY SPECIES

Label:MUSIC FEAR SATAN

Format:LP

Genre:COLD WAVE/SHOEGAZE

Now JESSICA93 records are expected and long-awaited. Just to be clear, ''Guilty Species'' won't let you down. Those who hated ''Who Cares?'' and ''Rise'' will have more reasons to keep doing so. The others, the ones who kept listening to them again and again, will have new reasons to get excited. More straightforward, more effective, much more disillusioned, this fourth album sees JESSICA93 moving on with its most interesting evolution to date. Going straight to the point, fierce and simple, the compositions are stripped away of all complications, coming with poisonous melodies and a ferocious grace. With spotlighted vocals and lyrics haunted by cockroaches and nasty things, this album is the most aggressive and heavy JESSICA93 record but also its most accessible to date! Despite its live backing band, ''Guilty Species'' was fully recorded by Geoffroy Laporte on his own in a total analog way by Vincent Gregorio (Les Etablissements Montasson & Fils)

Band:JESSICA93

Album:GUILTY SPECIES

Label:MUSIC FEAR SATAN

Format:CD

Genre:COLD WAVE/SHOEGAZE

Band:GYPSY ROSE

Album:PREY

Label:PROGAOR

Format:CD

Genre:Hard Rock

Canadian Hard Rock classic from 1990 now reissued with 5 bonus tracks. Four of them are unheard demos from songs off the album. 12-page booklet with lyrics and song notes by Michael Ross plus band photos. 500 copies only limited edition made to celebrate GYPSY ROSE visit to Europe in December. Gypsy Rose were a Canadian Hard Rock band formed in the late 80s that caught the attention of Gene Simmons on his newfound label Simmons Records that was operating through RCA.
In 1990 the band had released their highly acclaimed debut album "Prey" (produced by Mr. Simmons himself) and they quickly became a strong name in the label so much that many would place high hopes in the band thinking they could become the next Danger Danger or even the next Skid Row. Eventually in 1991 things started to fall apart and the band didn't release the second album splitting up shortly after. The reason for a split up at this time in Rock history is a cliche but so real for the Hard Rock/Hair bands of the era: Band tension and lack of support from the label due to the change of the music climate (Grunge was in). You've heard this story a million times before and most probably lived it. This year 2018, Michael Ross the band leader, decided to reactivate the band again (after a first attempt a few years ago). Coming to Europe for a few dates in the end of the year, was a motive to give the diehard fans this release as a celebration of the great cult classic album GYPSY ROSE had released back in 1990.

Band:NITRO

Album:DO YA WANNA ROCK - RARITIES 83-87

Label:PROGAOR

Format:CD

Genre:Hard Rock

Pennsylvania Hard Rock history would be poorer if NITRO never came to existence in 1979. This supercharged Hard Rock band took the U.S. and European emerging Metal underground by storm with their privately pressed 10''EP "Lethal" released in early 1982. At this point their sound was reminiscent of great 70s acts such as Montrose and Teaze but also in the vein of other contemporary high energy rock acts like Riot, Schoolboys (pre-Icon) or the more obscure Loosely Tight. In 83 Mausoleum Records releases the EP with two bonus tracks in Europe giving the band a wider coverage in european territory. On the second coming of the band in 87, they recorded the pre-production tapes for their follow up album "Volatile Activity" that never happened. This time their sound was more on par with Quiet Riot or Twisted Sister. However, in the big scheme of Rock and Roll, it was too late for stardom as this "Stadium Metal" type sound has been around since 1983 and the band members look didn't even match with the hairspray and doll-face image that was associated to the "Hair Metal" sound, so important for record sales at the time. The band eventually vanished into obscurity until a comeback in the 21st century when they realised there was still a fan base for their music much due to the Internet, specially Youtube.
The Volatile Activity songs appear for the very first time on CD, as they were released on vinyl back in 2013. The Lethal +II Studio Session 83 unreleased tracks appeared before in the CD "Lethal Dose" released also in 2013 but is now out of print. It's time to enjoy the ride again on this ultimate rarities collection and honour this exciting 4-piece Nitro-fuelled Rock'n'Roll machine! File under: Heavy Metal, Hard Rock, Hair Metal. For fans of: Teaze, (early) Riot, Loosely Tight, Wild Dogs and Twisted Sister.

Band:M-16

Album:LOCKED AND LOADED - 30TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION

Label:PROGAOR

Format:CD

Genre:Hard Rock

80's New York Hard Rock/Melodic Metal in the vein of Dokken or White Lion, reissued on CD for the first time in europe. Includes the rare privately pressed 1988 album "Locked and Loaded" and two bonus tracks (Demo 89). M-16 shared stages in the 80's with bands like Ratt, Armored Saint, Wrathchild America, and fellow New York bands Dirty Looks, Roxx, Triffid and Blacksmith. Carefully remastered and presented in a 12-page booklet with band history and rare photos, this release marks the celebration of the 30th Anniversary of "Locked and Loaded". File Under: Melodic Metal, Heavy Metal, Hair Metal. For fans of: Dokken, White Lion, Whitefoxx, Metalwolf and Shire.

Band:AMORIELLO

Album:AMORIELLO

Label:H42 Records

Format:LP

Genre:HEAVY METAL/ROCK

AMORIELLO is the project of Philadelphiaâ€born guitarist and children’s picture book author, Thomas Amoriello, who has teamed up with a stellar roster of special guest musicians including former members of Black Sabbath, Whitesnake, Ozzy Osbourne, Yngwie J. Malmsteen’s Rising Force, and the Michael Schenker Group to bring the 80's inspired metal with a modern feel. The second AMORIELLO release from H42 Records on 12inch Vinyl features former members of Black Sabbath, Dio, Yngwie Malmsteen’s Rising Force, Ozzy Osbourne, Whitesnake, Quiet Riot, TNT, Loudness, Dokken, Impellitteri, and Cacophony. 'Battle Song' (a tribute to metal legand Ronnie James Dio) feat. Vinny Appice includes a thunderous drum solo for 16 bars that the former Sabbath/Dio drummer grooves with an emotional vocal delivery from Nick Z. Marino from the current Malmsteen lineup. Impelliterri bassist James Amelio Pulli and exâ€Yngwie keysman Michal Troy provide excellent work. (Release digital September 28th)

Band:AUTOMATON

Album:TALOS

Label:SOUND EFFECT

Format:CD

Genre:METAL/DOOM/DRONE

What if Talos the mythical metal giant of Crete and archetype automaton, awakens in the modern era to fight injustice and protect the innocent? This is the narrative of Automaton’s second full length release (due out on November 16th via Sound Effect Records), a carefully crafted concept album spanning 48 minutes in which Talos spreads pure catastrophe. Dark and dangerous, with a cinematic quality that rises throughout their relentless groove and into the fabric of their cold, everexpanding universe, "Talos" offers some outstanding doom/drone thrills, exploring at the same time the boundaries of the genre: heavy guitars, psychedelic black metal, sludge and drone elements merge seamlessly, while a very special guest, the legend of traditional Cretan music Psarantonis, sings and plays the lyra on the key track "Talos Awakens". If Automaton’s debut album "Echoes of Mount Ida" provided the setting, now "Talos" is where the real action is! Recorded at Electric Zen Studios Athens, June 2017. Produced by Automaton and Mike Kavvadias. Engineered and mixed by George Leodis. Mastered by Brad Boatwright at Audiosiege Studio.

Band:PREY DRIVE

Album:ONCE MORE WITH FEELING

Label:KROD RECORDS

Format:LP

Genre:Alt Rock

An alternative rock record influenced from a range of bands such as Dance Gavin Dance, Thrice and Circa Survive, expressing raw emotions from a tortuous period of time. It was recorded in part at The Den Production House, Peterborough (UK) and at the home studio of guitarist, Steve. It was mastered by John Naclerio at Nada studios, in the U.S, famed for his work with My Chemical Romance, Brand New, Real Friends, Polar Bear Club and many more artists.

Band:FALGAR

Album:LA DAMA DEL ALBA

Label:ATMF

Format:CDD

Genre:Black Metal

What if Varg Vikernes' most appreciated masterpieces Hvis Lyset Tar Oss/Filosofem era would be projected on a melancholic and medieval artistic environment ? The answer, improved by skillful arrangements & a prominent emotional vibe, may be "La Dama Del Alba". ATMF cult editions take back from the ashes another small gem of the very underground, from Falgar, a project moving from the Black Metal fields of this album to recently land to folk territories. Originally released by Nebular Winter Productions on cassette format "La Dama Del Alba" can be in many ways considered as one of the most remarkable manifestations of the post-burzumish depressive/melancholic wave. Forgotten by the most powerful promotional & distribution channels the cult edition finally provides to this small piece of art a whorty form. The edition is enriched by 2 bonus songs "The Whispers of Diana" & "Her Sacred Dwelling", never released before on cd format, chosen by the artist as representative of the pre-Dama del Alba Falgar artistic form. "La Dama Del Alba" is now a glorious artistic epitaph of the cult edition, together with the more macabre counterpart Beatrik's "Journey Through the End of Life".

Band:DEITUS

Album:VIA DOLOROSA

Label:I VOIDHANGER

Format:CD

Genre:Black Metal

Hailing from UK, DEITUS return on I, Voidhanger Records with their sophomore work, “Via Dolorosa”, a brilliant and worthy successor to their 2016's debut, “Acta Non Verba”. The new album features five hymns of adversarial sonic terror dedicated to the heinous nature within man, and it's exactly the record that everybody expected from DEITUS: rooted in the old-school black metal tradition of Dissection, Satyricon and Mayhem, but prone to heavy metal contaminations that make the music very varied, vital and essential. Guitars are constantly under the spotlights, here: the riffs are crafted in a classic way, with great attention to memorable melodies and to a perfect fluidity of themes and structures, while intoxicant heavy metal solos often add power, majesty, depth and atmosphere, dragging the songs into a turbid darkness where we're left alone to writhe in our fears, in search of a way out. It is in this juxtaposition of extreme aggressiveness and painful abandon that lays the true essence of DEITUS' music, as well as the ultimate purpose of “Via Dolorosa”: not a concept album, but a cathartic ritual in five painful stages to attain illumination. Because, as DEITUS say, “it is through suffering that the fruits of salvation shall be found.”

Band:DEVIL WORSHIPPER

Album:MUSIC FOR THE ENDTIMES

Label:I VOIDHANGER

Format:CD

Genre:AVANTGARDE BLACK DEATH

Tireless and always provocative, the American musician known as Matron Thorn is responsible for some of the most audacious extreme metal of our times, offered through many of his projects including ÆVANGELIST, DEATH FETISHIST and PRÆTERNATURA. DEVIL WORSHIPPER is the newest one, and it has been chosen to take Matron Thorn's artistic visions to unparalleled heights of hallucinating sonic violence, thanks also to the bestial, schizophrenic vocal performance provided by Fr.A.A. (from Portugal's TOD HUETET UEBEL) and the female, ethereal counterpoint of Erethe Arashiel. For DEVIL WORSHIPPER's debut full-length album, “Music For The Endtimes”, Matron Thorn brings to the table a handful of rusty riffs and dissonant, sick melodies. Their primitive thrust recalls the old-school of black metal, but the band totally transfigures them into some sort of gurgling industrial black'n'roll, where layers upon layers of trance-inducing guitars, serpentine bass grooves, paroxysmal screams and martial rhythms hammer the listener on the head till reality crumbles, revealing a nauseating yet fascinating abstract dimension of sin, depravation and oblivion. Featuring guest contributions from Kabukimono and from Sebastian M. of AUROCH and MITOCHONDRION fame, DEVIL WORSHIPPER's “Music For The Endtimes” is as terrifying and exhausting as an exorcism. It syringes our unconsciousness into Satan's purulent veins, and spirals it into an unforgettable and disorienting drug trip on the evil side.

Band:DEATH COMES CRAWLING

Album:LOOKING FOR SEMBLANCE

Label:I VOIDHANGER

Format:CD

Genre:DARKWAVE/SYNTH

One of the true originators and most important exponents of the so called cosmic black metal scene, Dis Pater never hid his passion for darkwave, new wave, goth, and 80's synth music in general, which have always heavily influenced all his projects, from MIDNIGHT ODYSSEY to DISSVARTH and THE CREVICES BELOW. It was only a matter of time before the Australian artist would decide to distill his love for dark electronic music into a specific project, finally free to widely explore its shores. DEATH COMES CRAWLING serves that purpose. With a name borrowed from a MIDNIGHT ODYSSEY's song, the one-man band debuts in 2017 with the fascinating “Looking For Semblance”, an 8-track album released digitally through Bandcamp and now finally available on CD, strictly limited to 200 copies worldwide. DEATH COMES CREEPING's music features Dis Pater's signature style, where seductive atmospheres, driving rhythms, and wraparound dark melodies give life to beautiful car-songs and majestic night hymns for the lost and the lonely. To make the physical edition of “Looking For Semblance” even more precious, Dis Pater has decided to include an
unreleased bonus song to the original track list: the monumental “Their Chosen”, a perfect closing number for an album that expertly conjugates the old-school obscurity of Clan Of Xymox with the modern electronic drifts of Drab Majesty and Trust.

Band:DEATHTALE

Album:THE ORIGIN OF HATE

Label:ART GATES

Format:CD

Genre:DEATH/THRASH METAL

The band was founded in 2008, raised up from the Thrash / Death Metal band Demolition, founded by Tom Krautner in 1996.The development of the music, which is technically more mature and more melodious, is based on international standards.Biting, multi-layered vocals combined with impulsive, powerful melodies and challenging guitar solos leads to intense “metal compositions”.Deathtale is not a band with political ambitions or background. Deathtale is a mouthpiece and a form of expression for those who appreciate life, against injustice, abuse of power, political arbitrariness and any kind of oppression. Together with their music, powerful concerts and planned tours, it is the goal to reach as much like minded metal and music interested people as possible.Deathtale are ready to release their third album of studio "The Origin of Hate" in December 7th through Art Gates Records worldwide.

Band:GRADE 2

Album:MAINSTREAM VIEW

Label:DEMONS RUN AMOK

Format:LP

Genre:PUNK/OI/STREETPUNK

Just in time for GRADE 2s UK Tour with THE INTERRUPTERS we´re able to rerelease the first (Mini-) Album – Mainstream View. Plus the CD Bonustracks for the first time available on Vinyl! Grade 2 continue touring across Europe with increasingly bigger crowds and venues thanks to the success of ‘Mainstream View’ and their brilliant live performances. Many fans have stated that they cannot believe how powerful the live sound is with just a young three-piece band. Just one year later Grade 2 come back with their first full length album ‘Break the Routine’. The band amazingly manage to further mature their sound and song writing ability to a new level. With the hard
hitting vocals from Sid and melodic vocals from Jack, the two make for a great duo with a fantastic balance to keep the record punchy and catchy. The memorable choruses, catchy guitar riffs, groovy bass lines and the powerful drumbeats show that the boys clearly have a new and brilliant understanding of how to make great music. And have proved that they are no long just boys, they are professional musicians here to make their mark. So make sure you stay around, it’s gonna be good…

Band:GRADE 2

Album:MAINSTREAM VIEW

Label:DEMONS RUN AMOK

Format:CD

Genre:PUNK/OI/STREETPUNK

Band:GRADE 2

Album:BREAK THE ROUTINE

Label:DEMONS RUN AMOK

Format:LP

Genre:PUNK/OI/STREETPUNK

Just in time for GRADE 2s UK Tour with THE INTERRUPTERS we´re able to rerelease the first full length record – Break the Routine - by these UK Streetpunk youngsters! Packed in a beautiful Gatefold cover! Grade 2 continue touring across Europe with increasingly bigger crowds and venues thanks to the success of ‘Mainstream View’ and their brilliant live performances. Many fans have stated that they cannot believe how powerful the live sound is with just a young three-piece band. Just one year later Grade 2 come back with their first full length album ‘Break the Routine’. The band amazingly manage to further mature their sound and song writing ability to a new level. With the hard hitting vocals from Sid and melodic vocals from Jack, the two make for a great duo with a fantastic balance to keep the record punchy and catchy. The memorable choruses, catchy guitar riffs, groovy bass lines and the powerful drumbeats show that the boys clearly have a new and brilliant understanding of how to make great music. And have proved that they are no long just boys, they are professional musicians here to make their mark. So make sure you stay around, it’s gonna be good…

Band:GRADE 2

Album:BREAK THE ROUTINE

Label:DEMONS RUN AMOK

Format:CD

Genre:PUNK/OI/STREETPUNK

Band:TAUR IM DUINATH

Album:DEL FLUSSO ETERNO

Label:DUSKTONE

Format:CD

Genre:ATMOSPHERIC BLACK METAL

“Del Flusso Eterno” is a spiritual journey embracing the circularity of the Universe and its forces of destruction and creation. The human condition, spiritually barren, is represented by a waste land. Facing an eternal winter, men hinder the rebirth of a new cycle of life. Negating motion and changes, an unnatural stillness takes hold of body and spirit. We lack the energy and the will to break this staticity. But hope is not forlorn, there is only to kindle the embers and set aflame the pyre. A sacrifice is needed to return to the Earth, to re-ensablish the long forgotten link to Macrocosm. We have to lose ourselves, sacrifice ourselves to ourselves. Sublimating our identity in the Infinity we may reborn. The cover is taken from an original photo by Marco Alfieri, Featuring member of SCUORN, PAROS

Band:HANORMALE

Album:REBORN IN BUTTERFLY

Label:DUSKTONE

Format:CDD

Genre:EXPERIMENTAL BLACK METAL

The only possible way to describe Hanormale's new album "Reborn in Butterfly" in one way: "... ideas come from Chaos ..." The HANORMALE project conceives the work in a logic that's diametrically opposed to the modus operandi of any musician, starting from rhythmic sequences fixed with a spirit of improvisation, to which musical parts, arrangements, voices and effects have been added. The album is introduced by the first track that deviates from the compositional method of the work, as a tribute to TWIN PEAKS and as a glue with the previous unmissable album. Arcanus Incubus, creator and coordinator of the ensemble, as well as the main author of the work, begins the work pushing Mox Cristadoro (MonumentuM - Christadoro) to create rhythmic drawings, freely inspired by the reading of terms randomly extrapolated from the Italian language dictionary, divided into syllables and phonetically transformed into scans impressed on the elements of a drums. From here followed the sum of the parts, conveyed in the mixer managed by Carlo Meroni (A.D.S.R.), prerogative of 13 performers, each bearer of style and personal inspiration, until the alteration of the conscience ... 'Satan is a status symbol'

Band:MY MINDS MINE

Album:PASSENGERS OF THE VOID

Label:SELFMADEGOD

Format:CD

Genre:METAL/GRIND/PUNK

Dutch lethal quartet returns with new full length after 15 years! 14 high speed and extreme grindcore songs in the vein of S.O.B., Heresy, Insect Warfare, Magrudergrind! Veteran Frisian band that shares more than one member with the equally impressive Blood I Bleed. By comparison My Minds Mine focus less on fastcore but more on pummeling grind in the lineage of Napalm Death, Heresy, and S.O.B. They released several EP's plus the albums "Between soothing consolation and uncontrollable madness" (2000) and "Scenes of the complete annihilation of this planet" (2002). My Minds Mine gigged extensively, including a Japan tour with Unholy Grave and others. In August 2002 My Minds Mine broke up for a ten year hiatus. Now - in true rock fashion - they are back, more solid than ever with the third full length "Passengers Of The Void".

Band:PSYCHONEUROSIS

Album:THE FALL OF HUMANITY

Label:SELFMADEGOD

Format:CD

Genre:METAL/GRIND/PUNK

Psychoneurosis from Poland are grind veterans existing since 1991. On the first full length the band offers 20 intense old school grind songs that will appeal to all fans of Agathocles, Rot, Warsore, Cripple Bastards, Phobia. Covert art by Mentalporn (Behemoth, Azarath, Blaze Of Perdition, Calm Hatchery, Trauma).

Band:REDEMPTOR

Album:THE BECOMING (2005-2011)

Label:SELFMADEGOD

Format:CD

Genre:METAL/DEATH METAL

The Becoming [2005-2011] is a sprawling compilation of material from Polish technical death metal unit, REDEMPTOR. Following the 2017 release of REDEMPTOR's acclaimed "Arthaneum" full-length through Selfmadegod comes The Becoming [2005-2011], collecting fourteen songs encompassing a huge variety of extreme music flavors with elements of fusion and progressive music. The compilation totals seventy-seven minutes of rich, intensive sounds that bring back the forgotten beginnings of REDEMPTOR, a band which has played a major part in revitalizing the Polish technical death metal underground of the last decade. The Becoming [2005-2011] contains three releases, including the None Pointless Balance album from 2005, the unreleased 2009 Nanosynthesis demo - which was completely remixed and remastered in 2018 - and the band's 2011-releasd 4th Density EP. The CD is packed with original, ambitious music that takes listener on a retrospective journey through the band's development and music explorations. The Becoming [2005-2011] bears new CD packaging with a slipcase and a twenty-four-page booklet filled with original illustrations, cover artwork, photos from all represented periods, lyrics, and introductions written to each release. The entire package is gathered under new cover artwork by of MichaÅ‚ "Xaay" Loranc, who is responsible for all visual aspects of the band. He is widely known through his works for acts including Megadeth, Nile, Behemoth, Kamelot, Glass Hammer, Vader, Decapitated, Necrophagist, Pestilence, and many others. REDEMPTOR has been a force in the Polish death metal scene since its formation in 2001. The members of the band are well-known figures of the metal scene, collectively currently performing with or having previously performed with the likes of Vader, Decapitated, Sceptic, Hate, Antigama, Banisher, Vedonist, Sothoth, and many others. For fans of Morbid Angel, Immolation, Gorguts, Hate Eternal

Band:ONCE UPON A WINTER

Album:EXISTENCE

Label:SNOW WAVE RECORDS

Format:CD

Genre:PROGRESSIVE/POST ROCK

Founded by Ilias Kakanis in Thessaloniki Greece, this cinematic post rock group releases their second album. Beautifully combines classical melodies, strings and piano to more modern touches of post rock guitars. A journey into the philosophy of existentialism, a cinematic vision of the mind. Instrumental melodic masterpiece for both fans of old progressive rock and more modern post rock touches, filled with songs that truly evoke emotion and paint a larger than life landscape.

Band:ONCE UPON A WINTER

Album:EXISTENCE

Label:SNOW WAVE RECORDS

Format:LP

Genre:PROGRESSIVE/POST ROCK

Band:CULT OF OCCULT

Album:ANTILIFE

Label:MUSIC FEAR SATAN

Format:2LP

Genre:SLUDGE

France's most hated band is back with their fourth record, ''ANTI LIFE'', and this time it is a concept album. CULT OF OCCULT delivers a sole 54 minutes track divided into four parts, exploring the darkest, creepiest and most extreme side of doom and sludge music. The four musicians were used to drown like a stone through the abyss but with this new album they have touched the bottom, maybe even deeper. This is a one way ticket to the ultimate extremities music can offer.

Band:CULT OF OCCULT

Album:ANTILIFE

Label:MUSIC FEAR SATAN

Format:CD

Genre:SLUDGE

Band:MIST OF MISERY

Album:ABSENCE

Label:BLACK LION RECORDS

Format:CDD

Genre:BLACK METAL/SYMPHONIC BLACK METAL/GOTHIC

Mist of Misery are an interesting, meditative, epic, and depressing beast. Hailing out of Stockholm, Sweden, Mist of Misery is all about this dark beauty; they are not trying to create black metal that is frightening, demonic, or anything of the sort. This is romantic; it is black capes and candles and wine and Shakespeare and broken hearts. The cover is of a lone cloaked figure amongst twisted trees; even the logo itself is constructed of elegant spirals and wispy lines that tell you this is music meant to be emotive. The title of Absence speaks of this same longing Just gazing into the cold album artwork by Alex Tartsus sets the perfect mood for Absence. And by the time it’s over, you might be able to feel the scraping of bare branches on your skin.

Band:MIST OF MISERY

Album:ABSENCE

Label:BLACK LION RECORDS

Format:CD

Genre:BLACK METAL/SYMPHONIC BLACK METAL/GOTHIC

Band:COFFIN BIRTH

Album:THE SERPENT INSIGNIA

Label:TIME TO KILL RECORDS

Format:CDD

Genre:DEATH METAL GRINDCORE

Picture yourself being forced out of a dead body by its own gasses, drenched in the slime of bodily fluids and reeking stench - the rendition of that scenario in music is “The Serpent Insignia", a filthy concoctions of old school death metal, rock'n'roll and punk. Born in 2018, Coffin Birth is the result of a collaboration between some of the finest musicians from the Italian and Maltese extreme metal scenes, namely Giulio Moschini ( Hour of Penance ) - Marco Mastrobuono ( Hour of Penance ) Francesco Paoli (Fleshgod Apocalypse | ex-Hour of Penance) Davide Billia ( Hour of Penance | Beheaded ) Frank Calleja ( Beheaded ). The band is now ready to unleash an assault of vermin infested live shows in a filthy concoctions of old school death metal, rock’n’roll and punk. From the dead to the dead.

Band:MADVICE

Album:EVERYTHING COMES TO AN END

Label:TIME TO KILL RECORDS

Format:CD

Genre:Death Metal

Powerful and melodic riffs, fast drums patterns and screaming voice. With "Everything Comes to an End" Madvice wanted to melt death metal with black and thrash metal. (Influences: At the Gates, Necrophobic, The Haunted, Pantera)

Band:RITUALS OF THE DEAD

Album:BLOOD OATH

Label:DUNKELHEIT

Format:CDD

Genre:BLACK METAL/DEATH METAL

Behind every legend, there's always a tiny bit of truth. While it's obviously still open to debate how much credit one must give to the Buckriders mythos - or 'Bokkenrijders' in their native tongue, the various gangs of thieves or who kept under their thumb the southern part of Holland throughout the 18th century by pretending they had signed a pact with the Devil and rode through the cold northern sky on the back of flying goats - it's still make one hell of story. And the prefect setting for an extreme metal album such as RITUALS OF THE DEAD HAND debut, Blood Oath... This brand new band was put together by two members of Belgian instrumental post-rockers Hemelbestormer, on Vàn Records. After the latter was done writing for their second album, their guitarist Filip Dupont felt the urge to dwell back in the same type of epic black/death genre his former band GORATH had became famed for, especially on their final album The Chronicles of Khiliasmos released in 2012. Recorded throughout 2017 and mastered by Patrick Engel at the Temple of Disharmony studio, Blood Oath is like the audio equivalent of famous 1922 Swedish silent movie Häxan about witchcraft. Far from our now computerized and PC-controlled society, with its four lenghty tracks (ranging from nine to eleven minutes) and very cinematic interlude ('The Gathering') and doomish passages, it takes the listener back into an age where superstition and local folklore still permeated all those small religious communities, with the story being told from the Buckriders' perspective. Actually, the cover artwork is a custom made painting of and old tree nearby their hometown where the vilains were said to gather around before launching another of their killing spree. So, truth or legend? Simple folklore or further proof that the Devil is always lurking somewhere in the shadow, especially behind man's vilest deeds? Whatever your answer is, one thing is sure: with Blood Oath, the Buckriders will ride again! Music by RITUALS OF THE DEAD HAND. Guitars, bass, vocals and synths/samples recorded at Crestfallen, Belgium by Lykaios. Drums recorded and final mix at Studio 508 (Tongeren, Belgium) by Jan Lathouwers. Cover painting by Renilda Smeers. Mastered by Patrick W. Engel at TEMPLE OF DISHARMONY in April 2018.

Band:ECTHIRION

Album:PSALMS OF THE RISEN DEAD

Label:SOUNDMASS

Format:CD

Genre:SYMPHONIC/PROG/EXTREME METAL

Formed in 2008 and releasing their debut EP in 2009, Ecthirion have been slowly and meticulously working on their follow-up ever since. December 2018 sees the culmination of this work in the release of the UK band’s full-length album “Psalms of the Risen Dead”. An orchestral metal band with a broad range of influences and contrasts, Ecthirion’s aim has always been to create unique and thoughtprovoking compositions, both musically and lyrically. You will hear elements of power metal, death metal and even tech death, with Eastern and folk influences bringing variety. Also very much inspired by nature, some songs are reflective of raging torrents, while others are brooding and serene. An array of people contributed to the project - 6 vocalists and several classical musicians who help to create an authentic neoclassical sound.
The album features belting vocal performances from Celso Alves (Allos) and Eugen Dodenhoeft (Far Beyond), as well as David Cooney’s (Jorvik) intense screams contrasting with emotive female vocals. With riffy guitars and intense drumming, “Psalms of the Risen Dead” is a spiritual journey for every listener to embark on, with lyrical themes of personal struggle, death, conquering sin and the brevity of life. The accompanying 16-page booklet illustrates this opulent metal musical, ending with death and what comes after.

Band:BROKEN DOWN

Album:DROP DEAD ENTERTAINER

Label:ALTSPHERE

Format:CDD

Genre:INDUSTRIAL METAL

Broken Down formed in 2014 and has been exploring music outside native, classic and narrow music genres with an extreme amount of freedom. The one-man-band takes familiar music elements and twists them into new things. Broken Down's third album ‘Drop Dead Entertainer’ is a fusion of heavy metal guitars, heavy EBM or groove beats, dark industrial ambiences / noises. Broken Down's music is challenging, and it rewards closer scrutiny on headphones, but it is also a honed vision that you can still party on.

Band:DRYOM

Album:3

Label:ARCHAIC SOUND

Format:CDD

Genre:ATMOSPHERIC FUNERAL DOOM METAL

Astonishing mysterious ancestral Dark Folk / Funeral Doom/Death band DRYOM back with their brand new masterpiece album "3" - atmospheric Funeral Doom Metal at its finest, highly inspired by dark side of Slavonic folklore. This is the 3rd chapter of their journey through mysterious woods...

Band:FORTRESS OF THE OLDEN DAYS

Album:NIGHT OF SACRIFICE

Label:ARCHAIC SOUND

Format:CDD

Genre:RAW ATMOSPHERIC BLACK METAL

Through the course of three proper tracks and two ambient interludes, only member STLPRT creates a satisfying, raw wall of heavily atmospheric sound. Transcendent droning melodies both sombre and grandiose caress the arcane darkness as the frantic drums clatter through the haze around his excellent rasps and howls. (Black Metal daily)

Band:1914

Album:THE BLIND LEADING THE BLIND

Label:ARCHAIC SOUND

Format:CDD

Genre:BLACKENED DEATH/DOOM

The music is massively heavy and steeped in the shocking misery of shattered bodies and pervasive death, and it’s also explosively violent, with searing riffs and soaring leads that, together with blazing drumwork and wrenching voices, raise visions of the horrible grandeur and mortifying terror of such man-made conflagrations as the battle to which these songs allude. It will really get your head moving, too - and I’m glad that 1914 have also continued to insert excerpts from period songs, as they do at their previous album. (No Clean Singing).

Band:ARKAID

Album:CREMATORIA

Label:ART GATES

Format:CD

Genre:AGGRESSIVE METAL

This Aggressive Modern Extreme Metal four pieced combo was born in the year 2013 in Halmstad (Sweden), musically evolving this combination of modern metal and Extreme music, including dark music influences.After releasing two EP's "Arkaid I" and "Arkaid II" the band is ready to set the world on fire with the release of their debut album "Crematoria" in December 7th 2018 through Art Gates Records.

Band:INSIGHT AFTER DOOMSDAY

Album:EVENTS OF MISERY

Label:ART GATES

Format:CD

Genre:CONTEMPORARY METAL

This experienced metal act was born in 2000's and formed in Barcelona, Spain; improving their skills and feelings in a mix of Melodic Death Metal, Progressive, Gothic, Industrial and Metalcore, also adding orchestral arrangements and electronic sounds. Far from being a mindless mix of styles, this becomes the band's personal and homogeneous genre. Insight After Doomsday have shared stage with well-known artists of the worldwide metal scene such as Mnemic, Avalanch, Stravaganzza and Obus. After several albums of studio, including their previous "The Way To The Nihilism" (2014), the band is ready to conquer the international Metal scene with the new LP "Events of Misery", out on December 7th 2018.

Band:KHOUS

Album:GEROAREN HAZIAK

Label:ART GATES

Format:CD

Genre:METAL/METALCORE

This basque quartet is formed in Berriozar (Navarra) in 2001. The combination of riffs and rhythmics with their own personality and a polyvalent voice, from gutural to melodic, channeling the rage and passion from a band that wants to transmit their message with their best weapon, music. With lyrics in euskera, their natal language, makes Khous a band with personality of their own that doesnt doubts in tearing their emotions apart in their outstanding concerts. Melodic Groove Metalcore from Iruña makes Khous a referent in the metal scene in Euskera. After two albums, "Taupaden bidetik" (2008) and "Loturak (2010) its time for their third one "Geroaren Haziak" which comes out on December 7th through Art Gates Records.

Band:WHITEMOUR

Album:THE DEVIL INHERITS THE WORLD

Label:ART GATES

Format:CD

Genre:BLACK/DEATH METAL

Whitemour is a Black/Death Metal abomination with dark melodies spewing forth message of hate, misanthropy, war and death.The band was founded in 2006 by Jani Rohunen in Seinajoki, Finland. Through many lineup changes, the band became the four-man group it is today.After releasing a demo "Journal of Flesh and Blood", a single release "Produced Minds and Sculpted Beauty", two EP's "Chaos Anthem" and "Astarte" and the latest single release "Kuolinnaamio". In December 7th 2018 the new album "The Devil Inherits The World" will be worldwide released through Art Gates Records.

Band:INFINITA SYMPHONIA

Album:LIBERATION

Label:MY KINGDOM MUSIC

Format:CDD

Genre:MELODIC POWER PROG METAL

INFINITA SYMPHONIA is an Italian Metal band formed in 2008. In 2009 they realized the Demo “Into The Symphonia” that brings to light an original sound made of a melodic mix of Power and Progressive Metal. In June 2010 they recorded the debut album “A Mind’s Chronicle”, featuring Tim “Ripper” Owens and Fabio Lione and released by Scarlet Records on july 2011. On August 2012 the band started to work at the second album, “Infinita Symphonia” with Michael Kiske as special guest. It was published by Scarlet Records on June 2013. After a time spent in live shows and a very hard work on composing and recording the new album, they are ready to paint new epic, catchy and melodic musical landscapes with their 3rd album titled “Liberation”. The album was mastered by Simone Mularoni at the well-known Domination Studios, and presents as special guests among others the great Blaze Bayley, Ralf Sheepers and Alessandro Conti. It will be released on December 7th, 2018 for MY KINGDOM MUSIC.

Band:RED DEAD, UNDEAD VISIONS & SON OF A SHOTGUN

Album:SONS OF RED VISIONS

Label:GREAT DANE RECORDS

Format:CD

Genre:Death Metal

Limited edition, only 500 hand-numbered copies. “SONS OF RED VISIONS” is a split cd with 3 groups of 3 different horizons. The French death metal band RED DEAD who come back with 3 new tracks, then the Swiss death metal band UNDEAD VISION with 3 tracks in the vein of old DEICIDE and 3 tracks from SON OF A SHOTGUN, a Norvegian southern death grind band (the side project of BLOOD RED THRONE's guitarist Ivan "MEATHOOK" GUJIC) with featurings, on drums - Jan Axel Von "HELLHAMMER" Blomberg from MAYHEM and on the bass - Olivier Pinard from CRYPTOPSY, in the vein of PANTERA, BLOOD RED THRONE

Band:LORDS OF THE CEMETERY

Album:PATH OF DAMARA

Label:GREAT DANE RECORDS

Format:CD

Genre:BLACKENED DEATH METAL

The French duet LORDS OF THE CEMETERY's second album ,“path of Damara”, is a perfect mix between melodies and brutality. L.F.C (guitar / vocals / keyboard) and CADAVER (drums) play a sumptuous blackened death metal with influences such as DISSECTION, DEATH, MORBID ANGEL & NOCTURNUS . For fans of DISSECTION, DEATH, NOCTURNUS

Band:MEGHISTOS

Album:THE EVIL SOUND OF HIDDEN DEMONS

Label:BUIL2KILL

Format:CD

Genre:Death Metal

MEGHISTOS is a project that officially started in 2017 but has its true birth in the early 90s when a couple of the songs contained in "The Evil Sound of Hidden Demons” were written. They were later recorded on tape for a demo with the support of Andy "Bull" Panigada of Bulldozers on the guitar, as he had been enthralled by so much ferocity. MEGHISTOS embodies a wicked form of music called Death Metal in its purest sense, just as pure is the evil it carries. It’s a one-man band, an apotheosis of narcissism and resentment, and it wants to flow like a black river in your veins. MEGHISTOS belongs to the nastiest current of its kind thanks to riffs straddling Death and Black, Growl and nefarious voices reminiscent of the best Glen Benton. It references Morbid Angel, Nile and Krisiun.

Band:ATHROX

Album:THROUGH THE MIRROR

Label:Revalve

Format:CD

Genre:HEAVY METAL

Athrox is the brainchild of the guitar player Sandro Seravalle and the drummer Alessandro Brandi, with the addition of Francesco Capitoni at the guitar and the bassplayer Andrea Capitani. The lineup found its final shape with the singer Giancarlo Picchianti. With these members Athrox started the songwriting process for their first full lenght album entitled Are you alive?â â “ featuring 11 brand new heavy metal tracks â “ released by Red Cat Records in 2016. Athrox music style is a powerful mixture of heavy metal with thrash elements, but characterized by different elements which brought the band to a great response from critics and audience. The lyrical concept behind â oeAre you alive?â features the rising problems of mankind: war and massive new media problems which enslaved our free will and sensibility. â oeAre you alive?â is the question Athrox would like to ask to everyone, to everyone enslaved by this corrupted society. The live activity has led the Athrox to share the stage with great artists such as Iced Earth, Ross The Boss, Mike Le Pond, Phil Campbell and many others, playing in local and renowned festivals.

Band:EDWARD DE ROSA

Album:ZEITGEIST

Label:Revalve

Format:CD

Genre:POWER METAL

Guitarist of the Power / Progressive metal band Soul Of Steel since 2009, he has recorded the second album of the band "Journey To Infinity" produced by Olaf Thorsen (Labyrinth, Vision Divine) and Alessio Lucatti (Vision Divine, Deathless Legacy) and mixed by Simone Mularoni (DGM). The full length was released in 2013 for Bakerteam Records. Session man for the Symphonic metal band Elegy Of Madness, supporting them for the third album "New Era" with some dates in Italy and Europe. He is currently working on his first solo album titled "Zeitgeist" produced at the Reverse Music Studio in Taranto and in post production at the Rogue Studios in London. The whole album will see the voice of Giacomo Voli (Rhapsody Of Fire, Teodasia).