SPECIAL MULTI-FORMAT LIMITED BOX SET EDITION OF THE NEW STUDIO ALBUM OF PRIMITIVE METAL FROM THE NORSE CAVEMEN.

This special edition of ‘Pre-Historic Metal’ is presented as a limited boxset, & contains:
- Exclusive splatter 180gm heavyweight vinyl with gatefold sleeve & exclusive alternate cover artwork by Maciej Kamuda.
Splatter | Black + Transparent + Silver + Orange LP
- Exclusive cassette edition.
- CD edition.
- Booklet including an interview with Harald Fossberg on the making of ‘Pre-Historic Metal’.
- 2 posters

In a year which marks the 40th anniversary since the initial formation - under the moniker of Black Death - of what would subsequently grow into influential genre legends, 2026 marks the return of the imperishable Norwegian duo of Fenriz & Nocturno Culto for their new opus of high calibre old metal, under the banner of ‘Pre-Historic Metal’. As Fenriz himself proclaims of the title’s symbolic origin, “Prehistoric is a loose term. I just figure it’s our VIBE, our take on things & it’s more a statement that we use old style to create something new”.

‘Pre-Historic Metal’ contains eight tracks of primal epics & gargantuan riffs with organic sound & the ever-present permeating spirit of the 70’s & 80’s, for a new continuation of the mastery witnessed on 2024’s ‘It Beckons Us All’. This next chapter in Darkthrone’s extensive & ongoing catalogue presents a vast odyssey through the sonic landscapes of Thrash, Black, Heavy & Doom Metal &, adorned with a punishing & “in your face” guitar presence, Darkthrone stirs the cauldron of savage creativity with a nod to the writing methods which were indicative of their earlier works of the late 80’s, but with a more refined craft.

'Pre-Historic Metal' was recorded at Chaka Khan Studios, Oslo, with production work conducted by Ole Øvstedal, Silje Høgevold & Mads Luis. Mastering was carried out by Jack Control at Enormous Door, & Maor Appelbaum Mastering.

Nel 2026, anno che segna il 40° anniversario dalla formazione iniziale sotto il nome di Black Death di quella che sarebbe poi diventata una delle leggende più influenti del genere, torna l’intramontabile duo norvegese composto da Fenriz e Nocturno Culto con una nuova opera di alto livello dedicata all’old metal, all’insegna del “Pre-Historic Metal”.
“Pre-Historic Metal” contiene otto brani caratterizzati da epopee primordiali e riff colossali, con un suono organico e lo spirito onnipresente degli anni ’70 e ’80, per una nuova continuazione della maestria già dimostrata in “It Beckons Us All” del 2024. Un nuovo capitolo che presenta una vasta odissea attraverso i paesaggi sonori del Thrash, Black, Heavy e Doom Metal e, impreziosito da una presenza chitarristica punitiva e aggressiva, i Darkthrone mescolano il calderone della creatività selvaggia con un cenno ai metodi di scrittura che erano indicativi dei loro primi lavori della fine degli anni ’80, ma con una maestria più raffinata.
Questa edizione di “Pre-Historic Metal” è disponibile in formato CD con custodia e un libretto di dodici pagine, vinile nero, vinile viola marble in edizione limitata e cofanetto in edizione limitata, contenente: vinile esclusivo da 180 g con effetto splatter, copertina apribile e grafica alternativa esclusiva realizzata da Maciej Kamuda, edizione esclusiva in cassetta, edizione in CD, libretto con un'intervista a Harald Fossberg sulla realizzazione di “Pre-Historic Metal” e 2 poster.

Nel 2026, anno che segna il 40° anniversario dalla formazione iniziale sotto il nome di Black Death di quella che sarebbe poi diventata una delle leggende più influenti del genere, torna l’intramontabile duo norvegese composto da Fenriz e Nocturno Culto con una nuova opera di alto livello dedicata all’old metal, all’insegna del “Pre-Historic Metal”.
“Pre-Historic Metal” contiene otto brani caratterizzati da epopee primordiali e riff colossali, con un suono organico e lo spirito onnipresente degli anni ’70 e ’80, per una nuova continuazione della maestria già dimostrata in “It Beckons Us All” del 2024. Un nuovo capitolo che presenta una vasta odissea attraverso i paesaggi sonori del Thrash, Black, Heavy e Doom Metal e, impreziosito da una presenza chitarristica punitiva e aggressiva, i Darkthrone mescolano il calderone della creatività selvaggia con un cenno ai metodi di scrittura che erano indicativi dei loro primi lavori della fine degli anni ’80, ma con una maestria più raffinata.
Questa edizione di “Pre-Historic Metal” è disponibile in formato CD con custodia e un libretto di dodici pagine, vinile nero, vinile viola marble in edizione limitata e cofanetto in edizione limitata, contenente: vinile esclusivo da 180 g con effetto splatter, copertina apribile e grafica alternativa esclusiva realizzata da Maciej Kamuda, edizione esclusiva in cassetta, edizione in CD, libretto con un'intervista a Harald Fossberg sulla realizzazione di “Pre-Historic Metal” e 2 poster.

UK thrash legends Acid Reign return with their highly anticipated new album, Daze Of The Week, releasing on May 15, 2026, via Back On Black Records. Produced by Jayce Lewis, the album features ten tracks promising catchy choruses and high-speed thrash, following their 2019 release

UK thrash legends Acid Reign return with their highly anticipated new album, Daze Of The Week, releasing on May 15, 2026, via Back On Black Records. Produced by Jayce Lewis, the album features ten tracks promising catchy choruses and high-speed thrash, following their 2019 release

Un’immersione nel lato più oscuro e grottesco del metal: “For God Your Soul... For Me Your Flesh” dei Pungent Stench fonde death metal viscerale e grindcore in un mosaico sonoro disturbante. L’album alterna accelerazioni feroci a rallentamenti fangosi, traducendo il macabro in trame di puro "Gore 'n' Roll". Attraverso riff sporchi e un’estetica shock, il disco guida l’ascoltatore in una riflessione estrema, sospesa tra umorismo nero e una violenza sonora cruda e inimitabile.

Un’immersione nel lato più oscuro e grottesco del metal: “For God Your Soul... For Me Your Flesh” dei Pungent Stench fonde death metal viscerale e grindcore in un mosaico sonoro disturbante. L’album alterna accelerazioni feroci a rallentamenti fangosi, traducendo il macabro in trame di puro "Gore 'n' Roll". Attraverso riff sporchi e un’estetica shock, il disco guida l’ascoltatore in una riflessione estrema, sospesa tra umorismo nero e una violenza sonora cruda e inimitabile.

The fog-laden textures of post-punk intertwine with the aesthetics of dungeon synth and the ferocity of metal in Hymns From The Hills. Poison Ruin forge a dark, narrative-driven work where scathing riffs and medieval atmospheres transport the listener into an archaic sonic landscape.

On this release, the band distills a sense of primordial urgency, stepping away from modern conventions to embrace a dusty, visceral sound. The vocals guide each track through legends and shadow, celebrating a collective capable of commanding the underground imagination with a truly unique and inimitable stylistic identity.

The fog-laden textures of post-punk intertwine with the aesthetics of dungeon synth and the ferocity of metal in Hymns From The Hills. Poison Ruin forge a dark, narrative-driven work where scathing riffs and medieval atmospheres transport the listener into an archaic sonic landscape.

On this release, the band distills a sense of primordial urgency, stepping away from modern conventions to embrace a dusty, visceral sound. The vocals guide each track through legends and shadow, celebrating a collective capable of commanding the underground imagination with a truly unique and inimitable stylistic identity.

"Taetra Philosophia" is the NEW studio album by Abysmal Grief after a few side-releases (live albums and a compilation of rarities and oddities).

second press in dark red / black marble

Cult full-length from 2000 finally available again on DLP.

Very well made fan-club edition, gatefold, UV spot and poster.

Six panels digipak, Very well made fan-club edition, great mastering and nice cardboard.

One of the most underrated pearls from the Swiss underground scene, Sadness. Formed in 1989 and released two demos and three full lengths from 1991 to 1998. Inspired by the occult Hellhammer and early Celtic Frost and other first waves black metal bands. On the other hand heavily rooted in doom / death metal, and later on heavily influenced by gothic metal. Debut album Ames de Marbre is the perfect blend of doom, death, black and gothic metal. This re-issue has a total new designed artwork and insert and demo Oedipus (1992) as bonus.

One of the most underrated pearls from the Swiss underground scene, Sadness. Formed in 1989 and released two demos and three full lengths from 1991 to 1998. Inspired by the occult Hellhammer and early Celtic Frost and other first waves black metal bands. On the other hand heavily rooted in doom / death metal, and later on heavily influenced by gothic metal. Debut album Ames de Marbre is the perfect blend of doom, death, black and gothic metal. This re-issue has a total new designed artwork and insert and demo Oedipus (1992) as bonus.

Despite being called from the grave at a time when Black Metal from Norway suddenly gained worldwide popularity, MALFEITOR always remained an obscure entity. When some of their compatriots signed record deals with international labels, the horde from Askim deliberately acted from within the deepest underground. With a short lifespan of only 2 years, the output produced by MALFEITOR is naturally rather meagre. The releases spawned between 1991 and 1992 only consist of 1 rehearsal- and 2 demo tapes and were back in the day only spread on home-dubbed tapes in very limited quantities. Devoted to Black Metal of the rather stripped-down, minimalist style similar to early BATHORY, ILDJARN or DARKTHRONE, MALFEITOR had the potential to release a great first full-length. Unfortunately, this wasn’t destined to happen since shortly after the release of the very promising second demo Pandemonium MALFEITOR returned to the shadows from which it was conjured. The member’s contribution to Black Metal wouldn`t end with the demise of MALFEITOR, though since out of the ashes STRID and MANES (featuring Vicotnik from DØDHEIMSGARD) rose.

Despite being called from the grave at a time when Black Metal from Norway suddenly gained worldwide popularity, MALFEITOR always remained an obscure entity. When some of their compatriots signed record deals with international labels, the horde from Askim deliberately acted from within the deepest underground. With a short lifespan of only 2 years, the output produced by MALFEITOR is naturally rather meagre. The releases spawned between 1991 and 1992 only consist of 1 rehearsal- and 2 demo tapes and were back in the day only spread on home-dubbed tapes in very limited quantities. Devoted to Black Metal of the rather stripped-down, minimalist style similar to early BATHORY, ILDJARN or DARKTHRONE, MALFEITOR had the potential to release a great first full-length. Unfortunately, this wasn’t destined to happen since shortly after the release of the very promising second demo Pandemonium MALFEITOR returned to the shadows from which it was conjured. The member’s contribution to Black Metal wouldn`t end with the demise of MALFEITOR, though since out of the ashes STRID and MANES (featuring Vicotnik from DØDHEIMSGARD) rose.

Despite being called from the grave at a time when Black Metal from Norway suddenly gained worldwide popularity, MALFEITOR always remained an obscure entity. When some of their compatriots signed record deals with international labels, the horde from Askim deliberately acted from within the deepest underground. With a short lifespan of only 2 years, the output produced by MALFEITOR is naturally rather meagre. The releases spawned between 1991 and 1992 only consist of 1 rehearsal- and 2 demo tapes and were back in the day only spread on home-dubbed tapes in very limited quantities. Devoted to Black Metal of the rather stripped-down, minimalist style similar to early BATHORY, ILDJARN or DARKTHRONE, MALFEITOR had the potential to release a great first full-length. Unfortunately, this wasn’t destined to happen since shortly after the release of the very promising second demo Pandemonium MALFEITOR returned to the shadows from which it was conjured. The member’s contribution to Black Metal wouldn`t end with the demise of MALFEITOR, though since out of the ashes STRID and MANES (featuring Vicotnik from DØDHEIMSGARD) rose.

ABIGOR’s 1994 full length debut captured the sudden discharge of the scene´s massive energy, which had built up in the early ’90s. As a result, Verwüstung turned out a bold, forceful but also deeply emotional album, created by adolescents who already had a sharp and individual idea how Black Metal should sound like. Although Verwüstung has in retrospect sometimes been overshadowed by the impact of Nachthymnen (From The Twilight Kingdom), its songwriting easily matches the 1995 classic and shows even more variety. No other ABIGOR album displays such a mix of demonic furore (“Kingdom Of Darkness”), complexity (“Universe Of Black Divine”) and atmosphere (“Midwintertears”), in addition Silenius delivered a vigorous peak performance and never sounded more powerful before or after.

For the first time, DSR presents a vinyl edition with the original 1994 cover collage. Verwüstung comes in a gatefold sleeve with an extensive 40 page booklet, including a comprehensive collection of photos and artefacts from that year, an A4 sticker sheet with the two blasphemous slogan-flyers made in early 1994, as well as liner notes and two detailed interviews:
one with Bruder Cle, talking about the tape-trading scene which shaped the emergence of Black Metal as well as this very album, and one with Georg Hrauda (Hörnix Studio), who recorded all the classic ABIGOR albums in the ’90s.

The vinyl sound – also for the first time – has been cut true to the original Hörnix master, while the download code leads to a new master, especially created for today´s mobile digital devices.

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+

Numbered, unplayed 

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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"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

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
 

“Show My Mercy” is an EP about the remorse that humans will feel, when they are stuck in the swirl
of karma made by themselves. Blinded by fury, greed, sorrow, heading for their destruction step by step.

The digipak comes as four-sided panel with booklet-sleeve and eight-sided booklet.

“Our goal – call to blight the life existance. Our weapon – weaknesses and vices of human scum.”
Virvel Av Morkerhatet, Ukraine: a hard atom that represents the defect of the human thought, that is multiplied by self-destruction of transcendental consciousness. Anticosmos through Black Magic.
We know you dreamt about a violent and ruthless edge of Ved Buens Ende, if we can figure this out in our minds.
This is a record that will not leave you indifferent and will nail your soul, a marvellous mix of avantgarde metal and evil fury where every second minute is unpredictable although not pushing too much over the reasonable boundaries of experimentation that every black metal band should safely keep….

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• Debut release from the long running and influential blackgaze project from the San Francisco Bay Area 

7th studio album of the most influential black metal band of all time.
"Liturgy of Death" delivers over 45 minutes of brand-new music and doubles as a long-awaited 40th anniversary celebration, tracing the band’s legacy since their formation in Oslo in 1984 and reaffirming their status as the pioneering force of the global black metal scene

Burrowing into swirling, surreal and nightmarish scenarios, STRIGIFORM is a new entity from the void, exhibiting members of VERTEBRA ATLANTIS, AFRAID OF DESTINY and THIRST PRAYER, among the others. The Italian band's debut album, Aconite focuses on an intricate and incisive approach to songwriting, characterized by unorthodox riffs and a particular attention to the internal dynamics of the tracks, in order to maximize their impact.

Nietzsche's Zarathustra created the mountain beneath him where he could only teach himself. He went down among the people in this infinite joy. But still he returned and plunged into the Gogolian depths of desperation. He left his work to the world, just as Gogol let the dead souls be lost among the flames. Joy and loneliness were both present on the mountain, where Zarathustra finally found nothing but himself.

Guitarist and singer Heljarmadr (Dark Funeral) expressed his thoughts: “Flame Of Hephaestus” is the first single from our new album Lycaon. We feel that it is a good representative for the album and it carries an intensity that kinda connects it with our last album Väsen. It serves as a natural bridge, if you will.

Flame Of Hephaestus brings us back to our early days, when we were including more influences from Greek mythology, alongside the ancient Scandinvian cult. It is therefore also quite suitable that Lycaon was mixed and mastered in Greece. Mixed by Terry Nikas and mastered by George Nerantzis”.

The Flame Of Hephaestus artwork was created by Italian artist Roberto Toderico, while the B-side, ”Stella Polaris”, is a single exclusive instrumental track, written by guitarist Maugrim. This is his first contribution for Grá as a composer.

Numbered copy of 5 manufactured

'Masks of the Magi' Trilogy, opus II

THE OUTSIDER 

The dreams die and the firmament drowns. Amidst the ashes of a dead forest rises a solitary kingdom. These towers breathe the blackest of magic…

Old Sorcery is a dungeon synth / black metal project from Lahti, Finland, born in 2017 from the ever-creative mind of Juuso “Vrajitor” Peltola (Warmoon Lord, Argenthorns, Vrajitor’s Tenebrarium and many more), which is now in the middle of a trilogy of releases shared between labels Out Of Season and Avantgarde Music.

The Outsider is the second part of this fantasy concept, which here blends dungeon synth with the more atmospheric and escapist part of black metal.
Over 70 minutes long, The Outsider is a real journey through fabled lands and mysteries unknown.

This is the morbid sound of the 90's!
Beherit and Carpathian Forest maniacs won't resist this hellish attack of pure black metal the way it was meant to be.
 

Trhä truly stands in a league of its own. The sheer volume of material, combined with its distinctive, otherworldly approach to raw black metal, makes it feel like an inexhaustible well of inspiration. Even among the genre’s most prolific anonymous acts, few manage to be this consistently innovative.

This latest album is an excellent example of Trhä’s ability to push boundaries—blazing fast, drenched in atmosphere, yet never falling into predictability. That comparison to Liturgy on track 6 is fascinating, especially since Trhä usually leans more into dreamlike, folkish textures rather than the kind of rhythmic

deconstruction Liturgy does. And that synth closer? Just breathtaking. It’s rare for a project this prolific also to feel like it’s evolving constantly.