James ‘Perturbator’ Kent and Cult of Luna are the masters of their respective worlds. Over the last decade, the French maestro has become the most expectation-breaking name in synthwave, transcending its ’80s video game aesthetic with metal and post-punk. Meanwhile, the Swedish sextet have affirmed themselves as post-metal’s biggest stars. Seismic riffs, earth-quaking growls and brave collaborations with everyone from Julie Christmas to Colin Stetson have ensured they’re as blistering as they are forward-thinking. Eclecticism and violence are married in Final Light: Perturbator’s team-up with Cult of Luna singer/guitarist Johannes Persson. The pair’s self-titled debut album is the perfect conglomerate between seemingly incompatible sounds. The tandem’s story began in 2019. Walter Hoeijmakers, the artistic director of the Netherlands’ lauded Roadburn festival, approached James ‘Perturbator’ Kent with the opportunity of doing a commissioned piece with any musician of his choosing. As soon as the pair began work on their boundary-decimating songs, they knew that they had to be immortalised as an album.

Hailed by critics and fans alike as one of the best releases of the year, Night Crowned took the heavy scene by storm with their debut studio album, "Impius Viam" (2020, Noble Demon). Consisting of former and current members of legendary acts such as Dark Funeral, Nightrage and Cipher System and with a musical vision as clear as it is haunting and disturbing, the band created with their latest album an imposing work full of rage, melancholy and pure destruction, offering a true reawakening of the sounds dormant from the most influential acts and masterpieces of the Scandinavian ‘90s.

Without showing any signs of slowing down, and even while the current release was being carried across the globe, the band started working on their highly anticipated follow-up record, titled "Hädanfärd", set for release on July 9th 2021, via German label Noble Demon. Thematically inspired by a story by singer K. Romlin, which deals with encounters with death, a far-reaching concept for the soon-to-be-released record was developed during the band's intense demo process. Carried with depth through 9 atmospheric tracks and supported in a vivid way by individual, written down interpretations and explanations of K. Romlin, "Hädanfärd" is an infernal, bleak monolith of an album, one that will most likely see Night Crowned step out as one of Sweden's best kept blackened death metal secrets

Comes in gatefold cover, incl. download, limited to 199 copies on white/black marble vinyl

Gatefold, incl. printed innersleeve, limited to 199x violet/black sunburst, incl. download.

Depressive Black Metal outfit Ghost Bath return from touring Europe and North America in support of Starmourner (2017) and the vice-like grip of the pandemic with striking new album, Self Loather. In many ways, Self Loather, the group’s 4th album, represents Ghost Bath’s forward trajectory (musical) and continued exploration of antipathy of the self (lyrical), but unlike any album before it and as the final piece in the Moonlover-Starmourner-Self Loather triptych, it’s the group’s most destructive yet contemplative record to date. While that might have something to do with everyone contributing - though founding member Dennis Mikula remains the visionary core - the unquestionable allure of Self Loather is its songs. From the raw strength of opening track “Convince Me to Bleed” and the melancholy of the strings/piano-driven “Sanguine Mask” to the grandiose horror of “Hide from the Sun” and the slow-burn groove of “Unbearable,” this is Ghost Bath at their creative best

Limited to 199x transparent blue vinyl, incl. download. 

Limited to 177x mint green vinyl, incl. download & an exclusive bonus track that is not available on any other physical release. 

Dwarrowdelf is a solo-project from the UK. It first made waves in the Atmospheric Black Metal world in 2018, with debut full-length “The Sons of Fëanor”, released to critical acclaim. A follow-up, “Of Dying Lights” was released in 2019, and saw the project start to move away from the Summoning-inspired sound of the debut, incorporating only sung vocals.

"Evenstar" is the third full-length album from Dwarrowdelf and their most unique offering to date, also using live (session) drums for the first time. Following the journey of Aragorn and his quest to earn Arwen's hand in marriage, this record sees Dwarrowdelf incorporating wider Melodeath and Folk Metal influences into their particular brand of Atmospheric Metal to create a truly unique musical journey.

Limited to 199x bone vinyl, incl. download. The glow-in-the-dark edition is available exclusively from Northern Silence, one copy per customer while stock lasts!

The vinyl edition features a new version of the "The Sons of Fëanor" album with real drums instead of a drum computer, and the "Of Darkened Halls" EP as bonus.

"The Sons of Fëanor" is the first full-length album from epic/atmospheric black metal band Dwarrowdelf.. Journey into the deep history of Middle-Earth, as the seven sons of a mad elven king struggle to uphold their oath to recover his prized jewels.

Epic Atmospheric Black Metal

Limited to 195x amber vinyl, incl. download. 

The vinyl edition features a new version of the "Of Dying Lights" album with real drums instead of a drum computer.

Dwarrowdelf is back with their new full length album, Of Dying Lights, delving deeper into the lore of Tolkien. This album contains seven tracks of epic metal, one being a cover of both Sojourner and Summoning melded together into an incredible journey of a song. Moving more into his own style with each offering, this is an incredible album. 

Collector's Edition in 6-panel Digipack, limited to 300 copies.

The German project Knights of Nvrul plays Dungeon Synth, influenced by acts such as Yearner, Inwendt Faerte, Vorvadoss as well as classics like Depressive Silence, Lamentation and Secret Stairways.

Set in the fictional universe of Nvrul, the project’s visual influences range from Jean Giraud to older video games such as Planescape Torment and Morrowind, and the focus lies on recreating the feelings generated by classic video games on the one hand, and Sci Fi/Fantasy on the other.

The 2CD features both full length albums, with the two demos as bonus tracks, thus gathering all currently available material of Knights of Nvrul on one strictly limited CD release.

Collector's Edition in 6-panel Digipack, limited to 500 copies.

Finsmoonth was founded as a Melodic Black Metal band in Jakarta, Indonesia, in 2020. The band's musical style is characterized by organic, harmonic atmosphere and spiritualistic intensity, rooted in Black Metal and Post Rock elements. The lyrics are mostly based on poetry, despair, romance, life and psychological themes in an introspective and personal manner. „Affliction“ is their first release.

Collector's Edition in 6-panel Digipack, limited to 500 copies.

Arcas was founded as an Atmospheric Black Metal solo-project by Enzo Brettschneider in Heidelberg, Germany, in 2021.

Influenced by artists such as Heretoir, Alcest, Der Weg Einer Freiheit, Veldes and Kauan, the intention of Arcas‘ music is to allow the listener to drift away, experience beautiful landscapes and embark on an emotional journey while listening. To that end the songwriting centers around the contrast of fast and heavy Black Metal parts on the one hand and soft and mellow clean parts on the other.

After several years of building a small home-studio, getting equipment and experimenting with sound, Enzo was able to write, record, mix and master his debut album by himself during several months in 2021.

Digipak CD with 12 pages booklet

Ysyry Mollvün is a conceptual project created by Zupai Ulen in 2012. In November 2015, Antonio Sanna (Downfall Of Nur) met Zupai and offered to be the producer. As time passed by, Sanna got involved in the crating of this project, composing arrangements for acoustic guitars and native instruments such as the charango, sikus, flutes and percussions. The band’s name comes from the words “river” in the Guaraní language, indigenous people from South America (Ysyry) and “blood” in the language of Selk'nam people, the indigenous tribe from southern Argentina (Mollvün).

Ysyry Mollvün tells the story of K'aux, a being that was once a human who was educated by the Selk’nam gods to teach the tribe what was necessary to outlive in the harsh conditions of the extreme south of the world. K'aux betrayed his oath and did not pass on what he learned, and for this reason he was condemned to lie forever, neither dead nor alive, in the center of the earth.

A thousand years later Espíritu del Monte, the god who punished K'aux couldn't understand what happened to the other deities since, except for the god of death (San la Muerte), they were no longer on this earth. All had changed, the people who lived on this earth were more, the flora and fauna that had inhabited no longer existed and everything that was for thousands of years was longer as it had been. Because of this, el Espíritu del Monte decides to wake up K'aux so that he can see with his human's eyes what happened and what must be done so that everything goes back to what once was.

almost Near Mint but presents a small crease on one corner of the gatefold

not sealed but like new...   2x Audio CD + Blu Ray  metal box edition

cd sealed,

box not sealed but like mint

Packaging:
- Tin box
Contents:
- Album
- Custom Serpent-Ankh necklace
- Full color album poster
- Vinyl sticker
- Embroidered patch
Contains exclusive Nile artifacts not available anywhere else.
"Von Unaussprechlichen Kulten" is German and translates to "Of Unspeakable Cults" and is a title of a fictional book from H.P. Lovecraft's universe.
The liner notes detail the theme and writing/recording process of each song.

Lys is the mastermind of Enisum, the well-known Italian atmospheric black metal band. After focusing on his main band for over a decade, the time came for the musician from Val di Susa to temporarily focus on something different. Here comes Silent Woods, Lys first solo album, a mélange of atmospheric black metal, acoustic music, nature, landscapes, mountains, rivers and forests. 

Similar to yet different from his main musical endeavours, Silent Woods shows a varied sound palette, with the usual Enisum references (Agalloch, Wolves In The Throne Room and the Pacific Northwestern scene) and some twists. Acoustic guitars and clean vocals find their way in, and so do more extreme elements, such as gurgling screams and hypnotic, circular guitar riffs with clear depressive black metal references (Xasthur, Leviathan and the likes).

Come join Lys in his new venture through the woods of Northwestern Italy. Avantgarde Music will take you to the Alps on October 29th.

Definitely the most unusual release in the whole Sivyj Yar’s discography with Novgorod gusli being the main instrument.
The artist defines this album as 'neo-medieval nocturnes' and dedicates it to Yuri Mirolyubov (1892-1970), the discoverer (well, most likely, the Author) of the mysterious 'Book of Veles', literally the main influence on the Eastern European paganism revival.

Solbrud is known for performing at unique locations, with special care for lights and props, which now results in ‘Levende I Brønshøj Vandtårn’; a carefully curated live double album and video. Recorded inside Brønshøj Water Tower in Copenhagen at two totally sold-out nights. The tower is known for its brutalist architecture and unique acoustics – 15 seconds of natural reverb, which creates a fitting atmospheric backdrop for the monumental sound of the band. On top of that, the tower was freezing cold, amplifying the nature of the music.

The full concert consists of 8 tracks, including songs from all three previous Solbrud albums. Some have been rearranged, taking the special acoustics into account, while others blast through in their original form. In addition to their set, the new song ‘Sjæleskrig’ was added to their setlist, which resonates hauntingly in the great tower’s reverberance.

‘Levende I Brønshøj Vandtårn’ was recorded on November 23rd and 24th 2019 and mixed by Marcus Ferreira Larsen (Demon Head) at No Master's Voice. Mastered by Flemming Rasmussen (Metallica, Morbid Angel, Rainbow, etc.) at Sweet Silence Studios.

near mint

vinyl NM

Cover comes with very very small hit on corner 

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Atmospheric Black Metal from Slovakia

Digipak with booklet

Standard black vinyl (200) 

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.

W szalenstwie is an excellent, consistent take on simplistic symphonic black metal
+ dark ambient parts
For fan of Emperor / Arcturus / Dimmu Borgir etc.... first albums.

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The very firt album from In The Frost, a Polish two-man-project. Their works are magnificent, majestic and full of tinctures of the cold north. Under the influence of Emperor, Immortal and the early Dimmu Borgir, In The Frost integrates a modicum of modern Black Metal elements into the Northern Europe Black Metal base, brings us a fantastic work of reverting to the old!

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Pierced with the double-edged misanthropic depressive thoughts and melody.
Hostile to friendly buster campaigns and cheerful nature.
Praising the starless sky staring blankly at the corpse of the Fall dismembered by Winter.
Smelling like smoke of snow-covered fire from dried leaves.

4 joyless tracks decorated with 8-page black-and-gray booklet without silver, lacquer, sequins and other embellishments. Only slightly dried black mold on some of the copies.

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very nice packaging ! like new !