Noble cassette tape with gold print on black card stock & black ink on gold cassette shells.

Limited to 100 pieces.

ultra clear + black smoke effect, Sound Cave exclusive

Hailing from the cascadian gloom of British Columbia, Canada, Ulvik,
formed by Jade Fadel and George Allen, released a double length with
Avantgarde Music in 2019, Volume I & II. After spending the opening
months of the 2020 pandemic creating Isolation Motifs, a short concept
instrumental album and corresponding video series, Ulvik finished writing
and recording their sophomore album, Cascades.
Cascades is a hypnotic, atmospheric black metal album, incorporating the
old, organic textures of plucked and bowed bouzoukis and violins to create
ethereal interludes, in contrast to the visceral aggressive tone of each track.
This melding is mirrored by shared dual vocals, creating a counter balance
that weaves and crashes between malevolent and haunting.

Hailing from the cascadian gloom of British Columbia, Canada, Ulvik,
formed by Jade Fadel and George Allen, released a double length with
Avantgarde Music in 2019, Volume I & II. After spending the opening
months of the 2020 pandemic creating Isolation Motifs, a short concept
instrumental album and corresponding video series, Ulvik finished writing
and recording their sophomore album, Cascades.
Cascades is a hypnotic, atmospheric black metal album, incorporating the
old, organic textures of plucked and bowed bouzoukis and violins to create
ethereal interludes, in contrast to the visceral aggressive tone of each track.
This melding is mirrored by shared dual vocals, creating a counter balance
that weaves and crashes between malevolent and haunting.

Hailing from the cascadian gloom of British Columbia, Canada, Ulvik,
formed by Jade Fadel and George Allen, released a double length with
Avantgarde Music in 2019, Volume I & II. After spending the opening
months of the 2020 pandemic creating Isolation Motifs, a short concept
instrumental album and corresponding video series, Ulvik finished writing
and recording their sophomore album, Cascades.
Cascades is a hypnotic, atmospheric black metal album, incorporating the
old, organic textures of plucked and bowed bouzoukis and violins to create
ethereal interludes, in contrast to the visceral aggressive tone of each track.
This melding is mirrored by shared dual vocals, creating a counter balance
that weaves and crashes between malevolent and haunting.

Limited 140g black vinyl w/ 12" insert

350g jacket, printed on reverse side, inside flooded in black

Black poly lined inner sleeve

Hand numbered

For those who followed the endless work of Dunkel, should know by now his excellent project (now defunct) named HUMUS.

For those not aware of HUMUS here's a short, yet, clear biography we adapted from TRANSCENDANCE, the label who released the CD verison.

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Humus is the alliance of Éclat Cadavéreux (Tümëur) and Dunkel (Drakonhail) with the aim of engraving their reverence to the forest with primitive black metal, imbued with melancholy bile and marshy ambiences.

Passionate about sylvan wanderings, the group quickly composed and recorded two productions: a demo-tape in 2011, "Clandestine Black Art", as well as a cassette album in 2012, "Tout ce qui est vieux", in wich the covers were buried in the forest of Montfort-sur-Meu for a month. Not hiding its various influences and its consideration for bands like Burzum, Judas Iscariot, Hate Forest, Braniklad and Forest, Humus is a real testament to Black Metal in its oldest form, pure and primitive, that it is essential to interpret while listening to these compositions with archaic riffs, the rough and wobbly interpretation, which leaves room for instinct and fleeting impulse.

It should be noted that all the works were composed and recorded in autumn and winter.

with booklet and poster

with booklet and poster

The infamous MAYHEM return this year with an EP called “Atavistic Black Disorder / Kommando” that presents the band in a way that has never been heared before! The lords of darkness have dug deep and reflected their influences to create a musical odyssey that shows them multifaceted in several ways. For this goal, cover versions of bands like Discharge, Dead Kennedys, Rudimentary Peni and Ramones were chosen, which in typical MAYHEM manner impressively fit into their bursting and darkenened sound. Nevertheless, MAYHEM would not be MAYHEM, if this musical creation would do without own composed songs. In addition to named cover versions, a brand new track called “Voces Ab Alta” was recorded to continue the musical journey alongside previously released tracks “Black Glass Communion” and “Everlasting Dying Flame”, which were used as bonus tracks for the 2019 album “Daemon”. The EP comes as a 180g LP format which features a two-sided cover artwork and two-page insert, as well as a Ltd. CD Digipak with sleeve and 12-page booklet.

The infamous MAYHEM return this year with an EP called “Atavistic Black Disorder / Kommando” that presents the band in a way that has never been heared before! The lords of darkness have dug deep and reflected their influences to create a musical odyssey that shows them multifaceted in several ways. For this goal, cover versions of bands like Discharge, Dead Kennedys, Rudimentary Peni and Ramones were chosen, which in typical MAYHEM manner impressively fit into their bursting and darkenened sound. Nevertheless, MAYHEM would not be MAYHEM, if this musical creation would do without own composed songs. In addition to named cover versions, a brand new track called “Voces Ab Alta” was recorded to continue the musical journey alongside previously released tracks “Black Glass Communion” and “Everlasting Dying Flame”, which were used as bonus tracks for the 2019 album “Daemon”. The EP comes as a 180g LP format which features a two-sided cover artwork and two-page insert, as well as a Ltd. CD Digipak with sleeve and 12-page booklet.

In 2016, the mysterious Scottish entity Ifrinn made their mark with a self-titled mini-album: a cold, swirling chasm of aural hostility and cavernous mesmerism, reflecting the ancient, bleak, and desolate landscape that the band calls home yet intertwined with the malign currents that reside beyond the veil of night.

Judiciously prizing quality over quantity, Ifrinn return with yet another release, this time titled Caledonian Black Magick. Indeed an ever-apt description of the hypnotic rhythms created by Ifrinn - and one this constellation has established since the beginning - Caledonian Black Magick is both an intensification and consolidation of its no-less-considerable predecessor. Here, the attack is sharpened to an enviable degree, finesse meeting fury headlong, as each catacomb-esque creation expands onward and outward. The vortex of sound Ifrinn create across this EP is akin to levitational hypnosis: undeniably physical in its approach, sometimes overwhelmingly so, but a paralysis of subconscious and spirit that's paradoxically liberating and intoxicating. Despite its Highland origins, Ifrinn are without geography nor era; authentic black metal orthodoxy knows no boundaries, and its windswept splendor is timeless.

Even if it's yet another five years between recordings, we are blessed and cursed to hearken the malign majesty Ifrinn invoke with Caledonian Black Magick.

Dormant for over a decade, Beyond Man has been awakened like an ancient curse from an old and sandy burial ground. In an epoch of records in which resounds the dull embellished atmosphere of a cozy bedroom, Beyond Man‘s self-titled album smells of old amplifiers drenched in rotten blood, ash and whisky, the reek of a cave I dare you to enter, where the frustrations of a group of Satanic cowboys take sonic form together with their zealot visions and nightmares, veiled by a truly ferocious and sinister aura.

Call it black metal if you wish, or envision Morbid Angel sitting down with Black Sabbath and listening to Norwegian black metal while sharing a bottle of red wine followed by straight shots of heavy smoked whisky.

Nidrosian Black Metal at its very finest, straight from the source with MARE, ONE TAIL ONE HEAD etc. members

Dormant for over a decade, Beyond Man has been awakened like an ancient curse from an old and sandy burial ground. In an epoch of records in which resounds the dull embellished atmosphere of a cozy bedroom, Beyond Man‘s self-titled album smells of old amplifiers drenched in rotten blood, ash and whisky, the reek of a cave I dare you to enter, where the frustrations of a group of Satanic cowboys take sonic form together with their zealot visions and nightmares, veiled by a truly ferocious and sinister aura.

Call it black metal if you wish, or envision Morbid Angel sitting down with Black Sabbath and listening to Norwegian black metal while sharing a bottle of red wine followed by straight shots of heavy smoked whisky.

Nidrosian Black Metal at its very finest, straight from the source with MARE, ONE TAIL ONE HEAD etc. members

CD + SLIPCASE

Astraw Black Metal, side project of Brouillard

76 minutes of wandering between cosmos, psychanalytics, and sacred geometry

Digipack 3 panel on reversed cardboard + 8 pages booklet on offset paper + Slipcase on reversed cardboard

For fans of Darkspace...

Medias are like new

Box (splicase) comes with few marks and small corner ding

Unplayed, MINT / MINT

All infos about this edition at THIS LINK

Copy 36/400

Written and recorded in a handful of days, the four epic, emotive songs on offer pass the 47-minute mark
There are a lot of dreamy, expansive, spacey, cosmic passages included
atmospheric Black Metal.
There’s a lot of melody at work and blastbeats are totally eschewed
in favour of slow- to mid-paced observations backboned by drums that genuinely sound like
they were recorded in an ice cave.
This record is mysterious, authentic, ancient yet ageless cold, cold, cold BM magic from the darkest shores of Sweden.

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Collectors edition in woodenbox, includes digipack CD + Saor bronze pendant, certificate card, woods and leaves

Release date 15/02/2019

Three tracks promo CD, rare edition made by the band to shop around a deal with record labels for the very same titled album (later on released on Iron Bonehead)

Sabbat ‎– Hamaguri Resurrection
Label: Assaulter Productions ‎– ASSAULT-001
Format: Vinyl, 7", EP, Limited Edition, Otaku Edition,Yellow
US 2004

Click HERE for release details

MINT COPY

please check details of this very particualr release HERE 

MINT/MINT

Limited edition wooden box of 150 hand-numbered copies coming in a natural-wood box, including the regular first press A5 Digipak CD itself plus a comprehensive set of gadgets covering the whole "Faunalia" concept and aesthetic. As they are partially handmade and crafted, every copy is sort of one of a kind.

Label: Grievantee Productions ‎– none
Format: Vinyl, LP, Limited Edition
Country: Finland
Released: 2004

MINT / NEAR MINT

new SAOR album: LP version in "quad effect", white and blue vinyl (200 copies)

Release date 22/02/2019

NEAR MINT if not for a very very small corner ding

The new full-length album by Evoke Thy Lords, the key representatives of the Siberian doom scene. Each work of Siberians differs in one way or another from the previous one preserving, however, well-recognized features of the band: a powerful, tightening groove and the sounds of flute amplifying the hypnotic effect. The "Lifestories" evolves into psychedelic doom metal from adjacent styles demonstrating original interpretation of life stories and a unique view of the musical genre.

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Ristampa 2013 per la Old Temple.
Secondo full-length di questa band chilena death metal.

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Following the footsteps of its fellow countrymen Plaga and Mgla, Nagual offers an intense performance of contemporary Polish black metal.

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Belgium’s one man death-doom project “Gateway” unleashes its self-titled debut, the follow-up to last year’s well received 3-track demo “Aeternae"

“As dark and suffocating as strapping an oxygen mask to your truck’s muffler. Play at loud volume and watch worms come out of the ground with the sheer reverb produced.”

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1. Living Dead At The Tradecentre Morgue 06:53
2. Dead Of Season 03:58
3. Xanor 04:15
4. Beyond The Light 04:52
5. Fluoxetin Selena 00:54
6. Burn Out The Sun 06:39
7. End Trip 02:50
8. Sunrise Casualty 04:49
9. Dead Love Autumn 15:35

A5-sized digipak with extended booklet, printed on offset paper

Apokryphon is the new project by Zorgh, Darkspace founding member and bassist. This new band has nothing to do with Darkspace, hence it would be inappropriate to make any kind of comparison between the two. Quite the opposite, after twenty years crafting a certain kind of music (and a certain kind of black metal), the Bern-based musician wanted to explore something different, and this is why you should expect a totally distant approach to both themes and sounds. The multi-instrumentalist even chose a new alias for herself, here going by the name of Ophis.

We asked Ophis herself to express her thoughts about this new adventure she embarked on, which you can read hereunder: Apokryphon literally means "hidden" or "dark" and refers to the apocrypha, old esoteric scriptures written by a variety of people that were either actively hidden or controversial and therefore excluded from public viewing or biblical content, for example. Many of them were found to be heretical, some were related to gnosticism. Many of them were written in the geographical area of the Middle East about 2000 years ago. ”Subterra" thematically relates to themes treated in the apocrypha. Musically, it is rooted in black metal, decorated with oriental spices. It is an expression of my own personal and musical identity and themes that touch me generally. I have chosen to liberally interpret both apocryphal texts and black metal in my very own way. And with "Djinn" I have found the perfect voice to interpret most of the vocal aspects. 

After more than a decade of cooperation, at Avantgarde Music we have the utmost respect for the Swiss trio, and when one of the few women in the black metal world expressed her wish to produce an (almost) solo album we knew we wanted to give her our full support before even hearing a single note. Once we had Subterra in our hands, we were but proven right.

We hope you’ll find Apokryphon as interesteing as fascinating as we did. Subterra is scheduled for release on the 14th of February, 2020.

New mini album for this mysterious band from Poland.

Raw and cold pagan black metal Intro + 3 new songs + Celtic Frost cover "Procreation (of the wicked)" 

Over 4 hours of the most extreme band on the planet - witness The Berzerker live + behind the scenes mayhem.

Contained on this DVD is some of the most comprehensive studio footage ever released to the public. It was not initially shot as a documentary and serves as a Fly-on-the-wall experience into the recording process.

Prepare yourself for a journey into a world where each step will give you a better understanding of your own reality.

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."

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The Last Release for this Japanese Cult Black Metal with member from MANIERISME

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Older, uglier, but just as hungry as the far-more-unforgiving days of the black metal underground from which they spawned, Black Beast have returned to claim their rightful dark throne with Nocturnal Bloodlust! 

Debut from the 4-piece, Floridian muck dwellers Gnosis. Despite touches of Norwegian blackness this is pretty old school sounding shit with many nods to the classics. There’s no overproduction hanging on the meathook in Gnosis’ butcher shack.
You get a bit of Obituary and Morbid Angel’s rampant brutality burl, the thick and mid-paced doom undertones of Incantation and Vore with a little sprinkling of Slayer. Despite blasts, double-bass and a pretty retching vocalist these guys are hardly the fastest and most technical lot to throw down.


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Double LP CLEAR transparent vinyls Limited edition 150 copies
Gatefold cover

GRAVE DESECRATOR dole out brutal music for the raw and the hooked. Their third album 'Dust To Lust' keeps essentially true to the spirit of metal made in Brazil. This is the anger born in the face of favelas, police violence, narco lords, rampant political corruption, and a daily struggle to stay alive or even rise above against all odds. Following the extreme path of their Brazilian predecessors, GRAVE DESECRATOR are true torch bearers of the underground and firmly place themselves among the ranks of entities such as SARCÓFAGO, early SEPULTURA, and MUTILATOR.

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Old school Black Metal from Portugal in the Black Legions vein.

Black vinyl 12" LP limited to 200 copies in poly-lined white inner sleeve + 12" Insert 

Black cardboard printed with silver ink. Comes with an insert.
Limited to 100 copies.

Negros Manifestos de Ordem Venusiana is something of an intergenerational pairing, however, as MONS VENERIS have been prolifically polluting the underground since 2003 while ORDEM SATANICA, by comparison, started their near-equally prolific onslaught in 2014.

Nevertheless, as representatives of the Portuguese Black Metal, here on Negros Manifestos de Ordem Venusiana do both hordes create provocative portrayals of their unique darkness and despair.

ORDEM SATANICA are on Side A and unfurl three haunting and medieval tracks, roaming the castle with that spectral rawness they've truly made their own the last few years.

MONS VENERIS are on Side B and offer an epic, side-long track that roams the rawest dungeons, spanning punkish bash and hypnotic hysteria alike, torrents of noise to ruin your soul.

A project of D.G. of Negative Plane, Ominous Resurrection revives the flame of old Black Metal, conjuring the darkness, mystery, and mysticism that once ruled in the genre.
"Omniscient" is a journey into the darkest corners of the human mind; the great gates of Hell shall open for the initiated

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Single-sided 12" LP with lyric sheet and personal note, of Kaiadas, from behind bars. Limited to 250 copies.

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The three labyrinthine compositions featured on " ٧ ٧ ٧ ٧ ٧ ٧ ٧ " cover vast expanses in the desolate realms of Black Metal,

with passages that tread fearlessly into atmospheric, folk, oriental, symphonic, pagan, and avant-garde territories…

And quite often wandering into unknown regions.

Band black metal americana costituita da musicisti già abbastanza noti nell'ambiente e precedentemente / attualmente impegnati con band del calibro di Krieg, Vital Remains, In Ruins e, soprattutto, Chaos Moon, dalle cui ceneri sono stati fondamentalmente creati

Black vinyl version

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Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.

It was at the dawn of 2019 when a strange little demo inconspicuously announced itself from the other side and introduced the sound of the bloody iris. Titled Erste Beschwörung, it was the first public recording of one HEXENBRETT, the work of a mysterious duo revealing themselves as Josto Feratu and Scarlettina Bolétte. This was a literal bolt from the blue, sounds that were as refreshingly new as they were authentically old. “Cemetery sounds” is what the band called them, but that only told half the story. Wild and wily, HEXENBRETT unloaded a dizzying payload of sounds both traditional and unorthodox, dumping into its hot-rockin’ cauldron spices from first-wave black metal, Iron Curtain-era speed metal, outsider doom, and even old-school deathrock. It was a kaleidoscopic spin, and caught the attention of Caligari Records (who did a wider cassette release) and then DYING VICTIMS with their 12” vinyl version toward the end of the year. Lots of other, strange-starved ears picked up on it, too.
 

split LP of underground darkness from Arria Paetus (Alaska, USA) and Moloch (Ukraine) - artwork from Pierre Perichaud. Pressing - 300