This new vinyl version is released on the Deathlike Silence label by long time partners Voices of Wonder Records.
Available on classic black vinyl (ANTIMOSH003LP26) or limited edition red/black splatter vinyl (ANTIMOSH003LPL26), presented in a gatefold sleeve

This new vinyl version is released on the Deathlike Silence label by long time partners Voices of Wonder Records.
Available on classic black vinyl (ANTIMOSH003LP26) or limited edition red/black splatter vinyl (ANTIMOSH003LPL26), presented in a gatefold sleeve

Per la prima volta in qualsiasi formato, la controversa visione di Pier Paolo Pasolini del 1975 dei “120 giorni di Sodoma” del Marchese de Sade, caratterizzata da composizioni classiche di grande bellezza e dissonanza, in netto contrasto con gli eventi scioccanti e crudeli che si svolgono sullo schermo. Tre settimane prima della scandalosa uscita di “Salò o i 120 giorni di Sodoma”, Pasolini fu brutalmente assassinato a Ostia, in Italia. Sulla scia della tragedia, il leggendario compositore Ennio Morricone scrisse “Addio a Pier Paolo Pasolini” per il defunto regista, inclusa nel montaggio finale. Seguendo la narrazione di uno dei momenti cinematografici più significativi di Pasolini, la colonna sonora si apre con “Son Tanto Triste” di Ennio Morricone, scende nei malinconici accordi minori di Bach, Chopin, Orff, Puccini e Graziosi, incorpora sinistre interpretazioni del cast e include il cupo tributo di Morricone al regista.

Released in 1987 and destined to become one of the most controversial and iconic films in European underground cinema, Jörg Buttgereit's “Nekromantik” is far more than a visual provocation: it is a radical, poetic, and deeply disturbing work in which image and sound merge into a singular emotional experience.

The soundtrack by Daktari Lorenz / Hermann Kopp / John Boy Walton accompanies the film with a minimal and obsessive sonic landscape, suspended between piano melodies, decadent electronic ambient textures, and distorted childlike melodies. A deliberately alienating contrast that amplifies the film's sense of tragedy, loneliness, and morbid romanticism.

This release is not merely a tribute to a cult film, but a celebration of music as a narrative force, capable of transforming horror into melancholy and transgression into a distorted form of romanticism.

Released in 1987 and destined to become one of the most controversial and iconic films in European underground cinema, Jörg Buttgereit's “Nekromantik” is far more than a visual provocation: it is a radical, poetic, and deeply disturbing work in which image and sound merge into a singular emotional experience.

The soundtrack by Daktari Lorenz / Hermann Kopp / John Boy Walton accompanies the film with a minimal and obsessive sonic landscape, suspended between piano melodies, decadent electronic ambient textures, and distorted childlike melodies. A deliberately alienating contrast that amplifies the film's sense of tragedy, loneliness, and morbid romanticism.

This release is not merely a tribute to a cult film, but a celebration of music as a narrative force, capable of transforming horror into melancholy and transgression into a distorted form of romanticism.

In 1985, the second studio album by the legendary thrash metallers Slayer was released. This year marks the 40th birthday of Hell Awaits and of course there is also a 40th Anniversary Edition for fans and collectors on this occasion.

The album is available as a 3 CD earbook including a poster and a 60-page book, as well as as a 3 vinyl box set, which additionally contains several tour replicas from the 1985 tour, another poster, a slipmat for your record player and 2 flyers.

• Hell Awaits LP (restored master on fire splatter vinyl)
• Live from Bochum 1985 (2-LP, unreleased live show from 1985, 180g Black Vinyl)
• 60p book with tons of photos and liner notes
• slipmat
• 2 poster
• Slaytanic Wehrmacht Newsletter replica
• Merch flyer replica
• 2 flyers
• concert ticket replica
• tour laminate replica

In 1985, the second studio album by the legendary thrash metallers Slayer was released. This year marks the 40th birthday of Hell Awaits and of course there is also a 40th Anniversary Edition for fans and collectors on this occasion.

The album is available as a 3 CD earbook including a poster and a 60-page book, as well as as a 3 vinyl box set, which additionally contains several tour replicas from the 1985 tour, another poster, a slipmat for your record player and 2 flyers.

Atmospheric/Post-Black Metal 

Made from the biblical book of the pensieve of the songs of solomon

200 Limited Edition 12" Vinyl

Made from the biblical book of the pensieve of the songs of solomon

200 Limited Edition 12" Vinyl

New hymns and ballads about the cursed creatures of the night and wandering through the worlds of a morbid mind. Furious monotonous passages shimmering with graveyard synthesizers and otherworldly vocals open the gates to the kingdom of darkness and here begins your last journey. An album inspired by the second wave of black metal, old horror movies, cemeteries and the indescribable nature of the North. All songs were written and recorded by Elias between 2022 and 2025.

Comes in a sturdy boxed set with all 5 albums in their Digi-CD versions.

Scandinavian Folk Metal complete discography remastered and re-packaged!

“Folktronen (1995-2000)” gathers the complete Otyg recordings from 1995 to 2000 in one definitive collection.  All demos and both full length albums, newly remastered in 2025 by Vintersorg.

The title carries a double meaning.  Folktron refers to folklore and old beliefs, while tron also means throne.  Together it reflects what Otyg stood for during these years.  Deeply rooted in tradition, yet standing apart from trends.  In hindsight, these recordings capture a period where Otyg truly ruled their own corner of folk metal.

From the raw power of “Bertagen” and “I Trollskogens Drömmande Mörker”, through the transitional “Galdersång Till Bergfadern”, to the full length visions of “Älvefärd” and “Sagovindars Boning”, this box set documents the complete journey.

Untamed, melodic, atmospheric, and unmistakably Scandinavian.

• The complete Otyg collection finally available in one box
• The boxset comes with a poster drawn by Vintersorg himself
• Remastered by Vintersorg from the original tapes for the best audio experience
• Featuring Andreas Hedlund of Vintersorg

For fans of: Storm, Vintersorg, Isengard, Falkenbach

Cult Scandinavian Folk Metal! Otyg’s demo recordings “I Trollskogens Drömmande Mörker” remastered from the original tapes!

“I Trollskogens Drömmande Mörker” is Otyg stepping further into their own world. 

More bite, more movement, and more confidence than “Bergtagen”.  The songs are tighter, the melodies sharper, and the playing more adventurous, without losing the natural Folk feel.
The violin and female vocals are woven into the music, not sitting on top of it.  They add depth and character rather than decoration. 

Remastered in 2025 by Vintersorg, this re-issue keeps the raw edge intact while giving the recordings the clarity they deserve.

Cult Scandinavian Folk Metal! Otyg’s demo recordings “I Trollskogens Drömmande Mörker” remastered from the original tapes!

“I Trollskogens Drömmande Mörker” is Otyg stepping further into their own world. 

More bite, more movement, and more confidence than “Bergtagen”.  The songs are tighter, the melodies sharper, and the playing more adventurous, without losing the natural Folk feel.
The violin and female vocals are woven into the music, not sitting on top of it.  They add depth and character rather than decoration. 

Remastered in 2025 by Vintersorg, this re-issue keeps the raw edge intact while giving the recordings the clarity they deserve.

Cult Scandinavian Folk Metal! Otyg’s demo recordings “Galdersång Till Bergfadern” remastered from the original tapes!

The third and final Otyg demo stands as the last hushed whisper before the band stepped into the light. Recorded in 1997 and never officially released at the time,

“Galdersång Till Bergfadern” laid the foundation for much of what would become “Älvefärd”, several tracks were later re-recorded for that full-length.

Here the melodies are ancient, the rhythms untamed, and the group already locked in on their own language of Scandinavian Folk and Metal.  You can hear the roots of violin, flute and lute dancing with guitar and voice, all pushing forward into territory only Otyg could define.

Remastered in 2025 by Vintersorg, this re-issue keeps the raw edge intact while giving the recordings the clarity they deserve.

Cult Scandinavian Folk Metal! Otyg’s demo recordings “Galdersång Till Bergfadern” remastered from the original tapes!

The third and final Otyg demo stands as the last hushed whisper before the band stepped into the light. Recorded in 1997 and never officially released at the time,

“Galdersång Till Bergfadern” laid the foundation for much of what would become “Älvefärd”, several tracks were later re-recorded for that full-length.

Here the melodies are ancient, the rhythms untamed, and the group already locked in on their own language of Scandinavian Folk and Metal.  You can hear the roots of violin, flute and lute dancing with guitar and voice, all pushing forward into territory only Otyg could define.

Remastered in 2025 by Vintersorg, this re-issue keeps the raw edge intact while giving the recordings the clarity they deserve.

Cult Scandinavian Folk Metal! 

Otyg’s first demo recordings “Bergtagen” remastered from the original tapes!

Before folk Metal turned into a gimmick, Otyg were already there.  "Bergtagen" captures the band at its purest.  Earthy, melodic, and deeply Scandinavian.  No posturing, no plastic bombast.  Just strong riffs, breathing rhythms, violin, jaw harp, and Vintersorg sounding raw, urgent, and serious.

Though often called a demo, “Bergtagen” never felt like one.  The songs are fully formed, memorable, and played with intent.

This is where Otyg’s spirit truly lives, long before it was softened or streamlined elsewhere.
Now remastered in 2025 by Vintersorg, the re issue finally does justice to this material.
For those who value atmosphere over hype and tradition over trends, “Bergtagen” remains essential listening.

Cult Scandinavian Folk Metal! 

Otyg’s first demo recordings “Bergtagen” remastered from the original tapes!

Before folk Metal turned into a gimmick, Otyg were already there.  "Bergtagen" captures the band at its purest.  Earthy, melodic, and deeply Scandinavian.  No posturing, no plastic bombast.  Just strong riffs, breathing rhythms, violin, jaw harp, and Vintersorg sounding raw, urgent, and serious.

Though often called a demo, “Bergtagen” never felt like one.  The songs are fully formed, memorable, and played with intent.

This is where Otyg’s spirit truly lives, long before it was softened or streamlined elsewhere.
Now remastered in 2025 by Vintersorg, the re issue finally does justice to this material.
For those who value atmosphere over hype and tradition over trends, “Bergtagen” remains essential listening.

Scandinavian Folk Metal classic remastered and finally available on vinyl for the first time!

“Sagovindars Boning” shows Otyg in a lighter, more playful mood.  Folk first, metal second. Medieval tones, acoustic instruments, lute and violin textures, and songs driven by melody and storytelling rather than force.  Vintersorg’s clean vocals take center stage here, warm and expressive, joined at times by gentle female harmonies.

There is a natural joy running through this album. 

Nature bound lyrics, simple but memorable songs, and moments that drift closer to Folk Rock than Metal. Tracks like “Trollslottet”, “Mossfrun Kölnar”, and “Vilievandring” capture Otyg’s gift for atmosphere and charm, while flashes of humor and unexpected turns keep the record human and alive.

Remastered in 2025, this re issue brings new clarity to the acoustic details and vocals, letting the album breathe as intended.

“Sagovindars Boning” is a record for open ears, curious minds, and those who appreciate Folk Metal with personality and heart.

Scandinavian Folk Metal classic remastered and finally available on vinyl for the first time!

“Sagovindars Boning” shows Otyg in a lighter, more playful mood.  Folk first, metal second. Medieval tones, acoustic instruments, lute and violin textures, and songs driven by melody and storytelling rather than force.  Vintersorg’s clean vocals take center stage here, warm and expressive, joined at times by gentle female harmonies.

There is a natural joy running through this album. 

Nature bound lyrics, simple but memorable songs, and moments that drift closer to Folk Rock than Metal. Tracks like “Trollslottet”, “Mossfrun Kölnar”, and “Vilievandring” capture Otyg’s gift for atmosphere and charm, while flashes of humor and unexpected turns keep the record human and alive.

Remastered in 2025, this re issue brings new clarity to the acoustic details and vocals, letting the album breathe as intended.

“Sagovindars Boning” is a record for open ears, curious minds, and those who appreciate Folk Metal with personality and heart.

Media Condition: Near Mint 
Sleeve Condition: Mint 

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Metallica ‎– ...And Justice For All
Label: Vertigo ‎– 836062-1
Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, PRS Pressing
Country: Europe
Released: 1988
 

Vinyls NM   Sleeve VG+

Bootleg version released on tape.
Xerox cover / white  tape.
B1 - Recorded in Grieghallen Lystudio September 1992, Previously unreleased.
B2 - First Version from the original DSP version 1992. Recorded Mid-Winter 1992 during Fullmoon of Grieghallen.

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(NOTA BENE, IL TESCHIO NELLA FOTO E' DECORATIVO E NON FA PARTE DEL BOX)

"The Northern Silence Years" Box-Set compiles the three albums the band released under Northern Silence Productions (which were also licensed to Nuclear Blast USA).

It is limited to 100 copies and includes:

- "Moonlover" DigiCD
- "Starmourner" DigiCD
- "Self Loather" DigiCD
- flag (100cm x 55cm with the "Reaper" artwork)
- woven logo patch
- logo metal pin
- sticker with the "Reaper" artwork
- handnumbered certificate

Vinyl :NM

Sleeve VG++  

sealed

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Gatefold embossed cover, double black vinyl

This special edition comes with an exclusive silkscreened hand-printed and numbered slipcase, printed innersleeve, 12-page 12"x12" booklet and a download card. Pressed on exclusive gold nugget heavy vinyl. Limited to 102 copies.

#076/102

Triple LP in trifold cover! Neon orange vinyls, 200 copies limited

Please note: mock-ups are purely indicative computer graphics: the final product sometimes varies considerably

The Burning Circle and Then Dust is Lycia’s fourth studio recording, originally released on double CD via Projekt Records in 1995. Save for a small CD re-release in 2006 by Silber Records, the album has never been reissued since. It is hence with great pride that here at Avantgarde Music we officially announce a new edition of one of Lycia’s masterworks from the ‘90s, due out on 2CD as well as triple LP, making this the first Burning Circle vinyl release ever.
Mike VanPortfleet himself commented: “After several years of doing more synth oriented material I wanted a return to my guitar roots (in particular English post punk and 4AD). Lycia started as a guitar based band and I wanted to reaffirm that with disc one, which was originally going to be the release. I was also listening to a lot of shoegaze then, which inspired a return of making the guitars, as opposed to the synths, the focal point of the atmospherics.”.
Many things have been said about the album along the last twentyeight years, and the band chose the following to describe the record.
Per Projekt.com. - The Burning Circle And Then Dust was a groundbreaking point in Lycia’s career. It marked a shift from more atmospheric music towards song-oriented music with tracks like “Pray” & “Slip Away.” It marked the first collaborations between Mike VanPortfleet & Lycia members David Galas & Tara Vanflower. It marked the transformation of Lycia into a honed out live touring machine.
Per Pandamonium Magazine via Projekt.com. - Moving back into more formal song structures, Burning Circle returns to true song-writing, and places equal emphasis on guitar as the electronics. However, the music is as intense and powerful as ever, conjuring up vast vistas of soundscapes which are captured in delicate webs of song and structure. Songs like “Pray” are positively dance friendly, while others find Lycia moving towards the fertile ground of darkpop. breathtaking in scope and beauty, exultant in vision, exhilarating in sensory delight. Lycia have arrived.
Per Ned Raggett of AllMusic - a high point of American dark rock and the band's greatest and most ambitious work.

Small cut on the sleeve, 5 mm long, on the bottom part, as they used to do back then to mark nice-price / overstock or store promo copies

Lavish vinyl edition on 180g black vinyl, housed in a hardcover folder made of black rough solid-coloured cartonstock with embossing. Including 12" sized booklet made of solid-coloured black cartonstock with lyrics.
All folded into two pieces of cartonstock with hotfoil embossing and sealed with wax.
Limited to 300 handnumbered copies.

Vinyl unplayed. Seal was detached to unpack it, but it's still in the evenlope: in general, sleeve is in perfect conditions

the heirs of Nortt?

Second album by Yorkshire’s White Medal. “Lyke Wake” features 9 new tracks recorded in 2015. The new songs follow on from “Guthmers Hahl” (2013) in terms of song writing and over all feeling but with a more refined sound. All lyrics in Yorkshire dialect with very personal themes of graft, death, grief, loss and paganism.
 

The Clearing Path is a very young and talented solo-artist recording project. 'Watershed...' was initially released only as digital, and benefits of a promotional campaign conducted by Earsplit PR, receiving a lot of web-media consensus.
It's bleak, noisy, extremely emotional, but listening to it is so easy that you won't realize you are giving it a 3rd spin in two hours without getting bored. It appeals to a wide range of extreme music fans, from black metal to Neurosis and Pelican

Comes in a radical chic essential-design digipack

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Raging,repetitve yet diverse black/death metal
with a discreet yet ever present droning vibe.
Hypnotic and hysterical,channeled through the virtues
of a sharp,
strict but eventually warm sound production,
Υπνωσίνοσις provides a sonic guidance to the subsconscious and beyond!

8 panels digipack

Exactly 8 years after June 2010's 'The Grave of Civilization' Void of Silence are back with a brand new album.
Although still based on the classic Conforti/Zara line-up core, the new album features again a new lead vocalist (Luca Soi, of Arcana Coelestia and Visthia past).
 

4 panels digipack with booklet!
you can preorder it now but this is not a limited edition or anything.
will be in stock on the 2nd week of February

"This what I call imagination and talent employed to produce true art. I have chills from that song and it is followed up “Curse”, a hymn filled with almost nothing but black voices, gasps, growls, hissing, vomit-like emanations, ghost-like screams of anguish – this album is a journey I assure you. I am mentally exhausted. A brilliant release that takes many elements you have heard, many you have not and combines them in a unique way that makes this record an absolute must own."
 

New Mini-CD 7 tracks of blasphemy
 

Sebastian Montesi is a prolific artist, probably best known for his endeavors in Mitochondrion and for being one of the founding members of Auroch.
With Saturn’s Cross, the Canadian took a very different path, delving into cold wave territories, which little have to share with the bands he is usually associated to. Yet, when we listened to what Sebastian crafted, we had no doubt, and we gladly welcomed this new project to our roster. With neither hope nor fear, Saturn’s Cross unveils Cheat Death.  Now operating as a two piece, with 1908 entering the fold on bass and
vocals, Cheat Death disregards genre with wild abandon in favour of something that is at times overwhelmingly abrasive and at others intoxicating.
This is a willing exploration of the endless labyrinth and a lamp of pitch black glass intended to serve as a beacon in the lightless depths of the human spirit. This is a headlong dive into the soul's psychic darkness, with nothing to break the fall. This ushers in a new era Saturn's Cross.

Digipack limited to 500 Copies
Orchestral Fantasy Music / Epic Dungeon Synth

1. War Of Attrition 04:16
2. Brutal War 04:56
3. Outbreak Of The Blitz 03:58
4. Mankind Dead And Raped 03:50
5. Slowly To Decay 03:47
6. Another Onslaught 03:22
7. Forward March 03:14
8. Artillery Pointing West 05:24

    3rd album from '03 by this legendary Spanish Death Metal band, includes 3 live bonus recorded in Madrid on 12.03.2005

Nuovo album per questa storica band death metal americana.
 

Writhing woe upon a rotting mass of murderous rats comes forth Ecuador’s Wampyric Rites with its latest unholy resurrection of melodic black metal malfeasance, Under the Tragic Fullmoon of the Vampire, a full throttle incantation featuring some of the greatest spells of audial sanguine slaughter to date. Writ mostly in the home tongue of Wampyric Rites, Under the Tragic Fullmoon of the Vampire, presents a truly matured and eldritch exercise of black metal mutiilation; one slaked in infested tremolo melodies, howling oratory necromancy, dark gothic poetics and the same epic alchemical composition this entity is now infamous for. Wrought from spirals of diseased rat tails entwined, Under the Tragic Fullmoon of the Vampire, only proves the unwavering mastery of sonic hypnosis Wampyric Rites have staked their bloodstained moniker upon time and time again. A must have for any acolyte craving the melancholic bloodlust of the perditious.

Reissue, remastered

Coroner ‎– R.I.P.
Label: Death Cult Switzerland ‎– DCS-001
Format: CD, Album, Reissue 
Country: Switzerland
Released: 2013
 

Reissue,Remastered

DOUBLE DISC EDITION OF SIGH’S 1997 RELEASE OF ECLECTIC DARK & ATMOSPHERIC METAL, NOW ON PEACEVILLE. WITH NEW AUDIO MASTER, EXTENSIVE EXTRA MATERIAL & BOOKLET CONTAINING AN INTERVIEW WITH MIRAI KAWASHIMA.

Japanese black metal legends Sigh formed in 1989/1990. The genre-classic debut ‘Scorn Defeat’ followed on Euronymous’ Deathlike Silence Productions in 1993 & with each subsequent release, Sigh grew to become one of the country’s greatest & most revered metal exports. With a journey through the strange & the psychedelic, incorporating a whole eclectic mix of genre styles & experimentation throughout their career, Sigh has remained a vital creative force in the avantgarde field whilst maintaining their old school roots, as witnessed with the stellar 2022 album, ‘Shiki’. 2025 also saw Sigh reimagining their ‘Hangman’s Hymn’ album for a release on Peaceville as part of the band’s 35th anniversary celebrations, in the shape of ‘I Saw The World’s End: Hangman’s Hymn MMXXV’.

Maintaining the core trio of Mirai Kawashima, Shinichi Ishikawa & Satoshi Fujinami & on the back of the epic & darkly symphonic opus ‘Infidel Art’ (1995), Sigh adopted a more boundary-defying approach to their writing, whilst still keeping the dark foundations & traits of the band’s fundamental sound. The result was ‘Ghastly Funeral Theatre’ which surfaced in 1997 & draped in Eastern & horror-based atmospherics, the band also embraced elements outside of metal with what was their most experimental offering to date; utilising instruments such as the saxophone as well as acoustic passages & notoriously drawing comparisons to the moods of bands such as The Beatles at times, featuring catchy hooks & structures in line with the rock music genre, but masterfully woven into Sigh’s unique blackened metal tapestry.

Continuing with Peaceville’s re-issues of Sigh’s classic early ( & until now, hard to find) works, this edition of ‘Ghastly Funeral Theatre’ contains a new master created by Patrick Engel at Temple of Disharmony, featuring a new transfer from the original DAT source.

In addition to the original studio tracks, this special double-disc release contains an expansive selection of material from the time, from unreleased mixes of album tracks & rare cover songs, to the inclusion of the very rare ‘Funeral Theatre’ Promo tape created by Mirai Kawashima in 1995.

The release also includes a new interview with main-man Mirai Kawashima conducted by Dayal Patterson of Cult Never Dies, delving into the history & inspirations behind ‘Ghastly Funeral Theatre’.

DOUBLE DISC EDITION OF SIGH’S CLASSIC THIRD ALBUM OF SINISTER & ATMOSPHERIC BLACKENED METAL, NOW ON PEACEVILLE. WITH NEW AUDIO MASTER, BONUS CONTENT & INSERT CONTAINING AN INTERVIEW WITH MIRAI KAWASHIMA.

Japanese black metal legends Sigh formed in 1989/1990. The genre-classic debut ‘Scorn Defeat’ followed on Euronymous’ Deathlike Silence Productions in 1993 & with each subsequent release, Sigh grew to become one of the country’s greatest & most revered metal exports. With a journey through the strange & the psychedelic, incorporating a whole eclectic mix of genre styles & experimentation throughout their career, Sigh has remained a vital creative force in the avantgarde field whilst maintaining their old school roots, as witnessed with the stellar 2022 album, ‘Shiki’. 2025 also saw Sigh remaking their ‘Hangman’s Hymn’ album for a release on Peaceville as part of the band’s 35th anniversary celebrations, in the shape of ‘I Saw The World’s End: Hangman’s Hymn MMXXV’.

Featuring the line-up of Mirai Kawashima, Shinichi Ishikawa & Satoshi Fujinami, Sigh created arguably their darkest work to date with third album ‘Hail Horror Hail’ in 1997; an epic of nightmare-inducing soundscapes & lyrics concerning topics such as murder & mortality. With at times more melodic compositions compared to its predecessors & a more traditionally metallic experience than some of the material witnessed on the cult ‘Ghastly Funeral Theatre’ EP released not long before, Sigh continued to embrace deeply atmospheric & symphonic elements, along with what was now becoming an increasingly experimental added dimension to their art, in creating this at times unnerving horror masterpiece.

Continuing with Peaceville’s re-issues of Sigh’s classic early ( & until now, hard to find ) works, this edition of ‘Hail Horror Hail’ contains a new master created by Patrick Engel at Temple of Disharmony, featuring a new transfer from the original DAT source.

The release also includes a bonus disc containing rough mixes of album tracks, plus other rarities, along with a new interview with main-man Mirai Kawashima conducted by Dayal Patterson of Cult Never Dies, with his thoughts & reflections on the album, the recording process & the influences surrounding its creation.