CD

 CD was distributed as a bonus item available through the label's online mail order, when purchasing the vinyl LP, and later as an unannounced bonus to mail orders of other Southern Lord releases.

The artwork for the 1xCD is misprinted; it is the same as the 2xCD version, and so incorrectly lists the second disc included in the 2xCD version and featuring the extra track, "Helio)))sophist." The track is also (incorrectly) referred to in the liner notes below.

Limited to 2000 copies. This version include a second CD of live recordings.
'Solstitium Fulminate' Live at Roskilde 0705

Comes in a 4-panel Digipak with black tray and with 4-page booklet.

KERZENLICHT carve his own path within the genre, blending primal energy with atmospheric, madrigal tones, cold and unforgiving as the northern wilderness itself!

Since their formation in 2010, Dysylumn have been something of an unsung "dark horse" of the French black metal scene. Whilst exhibiting some of that scene's idiomatic traits - the robustness of the orthodox / religious school, the melancholy of its more lonerist school - the duo have recast them in vivid new iterations. Signal Rex made a bloodpact with the band in 2020 to release their visionary second album, 2018's Occultation, on vinyl. Two years later, Dysylumn impossibly eclipsed that modern classic with the staggering double-album Cosmogonie, also in 2020. Between the two recordings, the duo displayed a breadth of vision firmly rooted in black metal's noblest traditions, but one more so aiming for the hinterlands of creativity and experience.

And so it goes with Dysylumn's long-awaited fourth full-length, Abstraction. Curiously titled, Abstraction is actually the duo's most immediate record in many a year; even on the surface, its five-song / 37-minute runtime seems relatively quick by comparison. However, to suggest that Dysylumn are shortchanging their still-swirling creativity by attacking more directly would be grossly missing the point. Gutted bass-throb and etheric guitar characteristically form the foundation, but here does the former sound more pensive and contemplative while the latter suitably slashes & surges with an unmatched amount of emotion. In fact, just isolating the guitar work of Sébastien Besson alone would render Abstraction an incredibly compelling experience, but his impassioned vocals along with the slippery-yet-stylish drumming of Camille Oliver Faure-Brac make the album an effortless exercise in point / counterpoint: a reinvigoration of black metal classicism on one hand and a defiant flipping of the script on the other, bypassing "progressive" and "post" tags not out of churlish disdain but rather as already-established signposts of no use to Dysylumn. Stargazing, wistful, and yet so full of vim and vigor - Abstraction hits emotional centers, HARD, without obfuscating their core creativity. From nascent flames to the final breaths of a flickering light...

DARK DIVINATION are yet another stellar addition to the ever-fertile Finnish black metal underground. Formed in 2022, mainman Dark Divinator quickly went on the attack, releasing two EPs, a demo, and two singles over the next two years. With no slowing down in sight, now arrives the band's debut full-length, Liitto hengen ja veren.

"My journey making this album started from an inner battle between spirituality and hatred," says Dark Divinator. "The endless struggle of life and death has been composed in the album, which translates to 'a trail from light to the shadows.'" Indeed, DARK DIVINATION carry a torch for yesteryear Finnish BM idioms. On first blush, the album bears the unmistakable stamp of Corvus-fronted Horna - thus, cast your mind back some 20 years - with a melodicism at once melancholic and triumphant, emotive and dead inside, leading the rubbed-raw surge. But as Liitto hengen ja veren plays on, a rugged mysticism emerges, with First Spell-casting synths enchanting to the extreme, and that melodicism begins morphing into other, less-obvious shapes. In that sense, DARK DIVINATION more so reignite the flame left behind by the likes of Cosmic Church, Rahu, Verge, Charnel Winds, and PANTHEON OF BLOOD. Any way you approach it, Liitto hengen ja veren spills vital blood into this exclusive canon.

Oratio ad Septem Profanationes
Invocation to the Seven Desecrations

You who kneel before the frail architraves of the divine, behold the eruption of the Primordial Antagonist, whose essence subverts the very fabric of creation. This sonic compendium, forged in the crucible of 1990s orthodox Black Metal, is the anti-litany that decrees the corruption of the Seven Sisters—once pillars of cosmic harmony, now collapsed beneath the weight of absolute negation.

Each emanation of this opus is a syllogism of desolation, an ontological rupture that dissolves the illusion of order and enthrones the supremacy of malignant entropy. The Adversary offers no redemption - only a mirror wherein your insignificance is revealed, an abyss wherein your faith is pulverized.

Let those who cling to the light falter, for this is the mandate of the Enemy, whose sovereignty brooks no opposition. Submit to the annihilation of the sacred, or be devoured by the maelstrom of eternal dissent.

ASTRAL SPEAR are a newcomer with an old sound. Hailing from Poland, indeed do the mysterious entity harken to their homeland's ancient black metal style - cold, mystical, defiant - and with similarly strong songwriting to boot. However, to say that Astral Spear stands in the glare of burning churches isn't entirely accurate. With their own fire blazing brightly, ASTRAL SPEAR erect surging monuments of stoic darkness, under a funeral moon but taking their torch to other dread places. Righteous and robust in their physicality but equally emitting an ethereal aspect, ASTRAL SPEAR's opening salvo is a 22-minute journey to forgotten realms: truly named!