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ILDFAR
Der Ligger Et Land

Norway's ILDFAR are something of an enigma. The band formed all the way back in 1994, by vocalist / multi-instrumentalist Favn, but left behind only one demo in 2003. However, upon reactivating in 2018, ILDFAR began blazing a trail of ancient-days Norse black metal with a quick succession of albums. So pure, so cold, this trio of records landed on such esteemed labels as Northern Silence and Wolfspell, but now under the banner of PURITY THROUGH FIRE, ILDFAR are prepared to blaze a new "old" trail.

Witness Der ligger et land. Immediately, ILDFAR's fourth album distinguishes itself with the much-more-measured mid-tempo pace and, most strikingly, largely clean vocals. However, before any worries of a slackening of black metal ethos arise, one need only listen to Der ligger et land to understand that Favn is picking up the torch left behind by Isengard's Høstmørke and expanding the (old, icy) canvas in compellingly new ways. To be sure, there's plenty of ILDFAR's previous, strictly-Norse fire here - just the recording alone evokes a solemn nostalgia for those forgotten realms - but Favn is stretching apart those sensations in a manner that's mystical, mesmerizing, and AMAZING. ​Also to be sure, there've been other sympatico souls who've likewise reinvigorated Isengard's template - ​namely, the axis of LIK, Lönndom, and Ehlder as well as Sweden's stalwart Grift - but ILDFAR's songwriting here is noticeably more melodic, utilizing clean(er) guitars to stunning effect, and overall textures that suggest stargazing rather than forest-roaming. 

Whatever way you arrive at Der ligger et land, it's guaranteed you'll be possessed to press "play" over and over again, luxuriating deeper into those textures and finding ever more new details with each spin. In short, ILDFAR have delivered an unsuspecting masterpiece.

 


Purity Through Fire
2026
DIGI CD
€14.00
NARGAROTH - Apocalyptic Steel (Marble Vinyl)
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NARGAROTH
Apocalyptic Steel (Marble Vinyl)

Crystal clear and black marbled 12" vinyl (33rpm) in gatefold with double sided insert.
Limited to 250 copies worldwide!

NARGAROTH is the sole vision of Rene "Ash" Wagner, forged in Saxony in 1996 and driven by nearly three decades of raw, uncompromising German black metal.
‘Apocalyptic Steel’ is a record that refused to stay buried. Tracked in a single weekend at Trident Studios in Pacheco, California, in September of 2014, the album sat forgotten on a hard drive in the United States while ‘Era of Threnody’ took priority. Years later, the recordings resurfaced. Drums were re-recorded in Las Vegas, vocals and mixing completed at AMP Studios in Duisburg, and 12 years after its first sessions, the album is finally here. This is not a vault curiosity. It is NARGAROTH at its most direct: nine tracks of filthy, unadorned metal built on the attitude of old Judas Priest, Accept, Deicide and Obituary. From the predatory menace of “Twisted Steel” to the band-name-studded battle cry of “Metalheart”, from the unflinching historical weight of “Dresden” to the aching Germanic longing of “Requiem Germania”, this is an album that has nothing to prove and wastes nothing on pretense.
Recorded fast, recorded dirty, and finished on its own terms.

For fans of DARKTHRONE, MAYHEM, ACCEPT, MOTORHEAD, DEICIDE.


Season of Mist
2026
LP
€29.00
NARGAROTH - Apocalyptic Steel
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NARGAROTH
Apocalyptic Steel

Black 12" vinyl (33rpm) in gatefold with double sided insert.
First pressing 500 copies worldwide.

NARGAROTH is the sole vision of Rene "Ash" Wagner, forged in Saxony in 1996 and driven by nearly three decades of raw, uncompromising German black metal.
‘Apocalyptic Steel’ is a record that refused to stay buried. Tracked in a single weekend at Trident Studios in Pacheco, California, in September of 2014, the album sat forgotten on a hard drive in the United States while ‘Era of Threnody’ took priority. Years later, the recordings resurfaced. Drums were re-recorded in Las Vegas, vocals and mixing completed at AMP Studios in Duisburg, and 12 years after its first sessions, the album is finally here. This is not a vault curiosity. It is NARGAROTH at its most direct: nine tracks of filthy, unadorned metal built on the attitude of old Judas Priest, Accept, Deicide and Obituary. From the predatory menace of “Twisted Steel” to the band-name-studded battle cry of “Metalheart”, from the unflinching historical weight of “Dresden” to the aching Germanic longing of “Requiem Germania”, this is an album that has nothing to prove and wastes nothing on pretense.
Recorded fast, recorded dirty, and finished on its own terms.

For fans of DARKTHRONE, MAYHEM, ACCEPT, MOTORHEAD, DEICIDE.


Season of Mist
2026
LP
€28.00
NARGAROTH - Apocalyptic Steel
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NARGAROTH
Apocalyptic Steel

CD in Jewel case with 20-page booklet.

NARGAROTH is the sole vision of Rene "Ash" Wagner, forged in Saxony in 1996 and driven by nearly three decades of raw, uncompromising German black metal.
‘Apocalyptic Steel’ is a record that refused to stay buried. Tracked in a single weekend at Trident Studios in Pacheco, California, in September of 2014, the album sat forgotten on a hard drive in the United States while ‘Era of Threnody’ took priority. Years later, the recordings resurfaced. Drums were re-recorded in Las Vegas, vocals and mixing completed at AMP Studios in Duisburg, and 12 years after its first sessions, the album is finally here. This is not a vault curiosity. It is NARGAROTH at its most direct: nine tracks of filthy, unadorned metal built on the attitude of old Judas Priest, Accept, Deicide and Obituary. From the predatory menace of “Twisted Steel” to the band-name-studded battle cry of “Metalheart”, from the unflinching historical weight of “Dresden” to the aching Germanic longing of “Requiem Germania”, this is an album that has nothing to prove and wastes nothing on pretense.
Recorded fast, recorded dirty, and finished on its own terms.

For fans of DARKTHRONE, MAYHEM, ACCEPT, MOTORHEAD, DEICIDE.


Season of Mist
2026
CD
€16.00
YOTH IRIA - Gone With The Devil
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YOTH IRIA
Gone With The Devil

"This time we entered the studio with the clear intention of creating a landmark album for the band." It's a noble and challenging mission statement from Hellenic black metal troop Yoth Iria, and one that has amply succeeded in the form of Gone With The Devil, the Attica quartet's stellar third album. Their trajectory has been on a steep ascent since crafty 2021 debut As The Flame Withers and 2024's hypnotic Blazing Inferno, but there has audibly been a concerted determination to develop and expand in sinister new directions.
The daemonic avatar Yoth Iria was first explicitly summoned on Rotting Christ's legendary debut Thy Mighty Contract in 1993. Bassist/lyricist Jim Mutilator formed that band as Black Church in 1984, before also becoming a founder member of cult Athenian BM heroes Varathron for their first five years. Renewing the otherworldly atmospheres and occult ravishment for a new era, Yoth Iria functions almost as the third panel in an apocalyptic triptych of Hellenic black metal excellence.
There's a thrilling balance of ancient and modern, good and evil, harmony and dissonance, advancing Yoth Iria as a hungry contender for extreme metal's big leagues - an ever-improving unit with a glorious future. Appropriately, however, Gone With The Devil is best summed up with a line already coined by the band to describe their ongoing body of work: "Every note tells a story of rebirth, tradition, and the relentless pursuit of musical transcendence."


Metal Blade
2026
LP
€26.00
YOTH IRIA - Gone With The Devil (Color Vinyl)
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YOTH IRIA
Gone With The Devil (Color Vinyl)

"This time we entered the studio with the clear intention of creating a landmark album for the band." It's a noble and challenging mission statement from Hellenic black metal troop Yoth Iria, and one that has amply succeeded in the form of Gone With The Devil, the Attica quartet's stellar third album. Their trajectory has been on a steep ascent since crafty 2021 debut As The Flame Withers and 2024's hypnotic Blazing Inferno, but there has audibly been a concerted determination to develop and expand in sinister new directions.
The daemonic avatar Yoth Iria was first explicitly summoned on Rotting Christ's legendary debut Thy Mighty Contract in 1993. Bassist/lyricist Jim Mutilator formed that band as Black Church in 1984, before also becoming a founder member of cult Athenian BM heroes Varathron for their first five years. Renewing the otherworldly atmospheres and occult ravishment for a new era, Yoth Iria functions almost as the third panel in an apocalyptic triptych of Hellenic black metal excellence.
There's a thrilling balance of ancient and modern, good and evil, harmony and dissonance, advancing Yoth Iria as a hungry contender for extreme metal's big leagues - an ever-improving unit with a glorious future. Appropriately, however, Gone With The Devil is best summed up with a line already coined by the band to describe their ongoing body of work: "Every note tells a story of rebirth, tradition, and the relentless pursuit of musical transcendence."


Metal Blade
2026
LP
€27.00
YOTH IRIA - Gone With The Devil
Pre order

YOTH IRIA
Gone With The Devil

"This time we entered the studio with the clear intention of creating a landmark album for the band." It's a noble and challenging mission statement from Hellenic black metal troop Yoth Iria, and one that has amply succeeded in the form of Gone With The Devil, the Attica quartet's stellar third album. Their trajectory has been on a steep ascent since crafty 2021 debut As The Flame Withers and 2024's hypnotic Blazing Inferno, but there has audibly been a concerted determination to develop and expand in sinister new directions.
The daemonic avatar Yoth Iria was first explicitly summoned on Rotting Christ's legendary debut Thy Mighty Contract in 1993. Bassist/lyricist Jim Mutilator formed that band as Black Church in 1984, before also becoming a founder member of cult Athenian BM heroes Varathron for their first five years. Renewing the otherworldly atmospheres and occult ravishment for a new era, Yoth Iria functions almost as the third panel in an apocalyptic triptych of Hellenic black metal excellence.
There's a thrilling balance of ancient and modern, good and evil, harmony and dissonance, advancing Yoth Iria as a hungry contender for extreme metal's big leagues - an ever-improving unit with a glorious future. Appropriately, however, Gone With The Devil is best summed up with a line already coined by the band to describe their ongoing body of work: "Every note tells a story of rebirth, tradition, and the relentless pursuit of musical transcendence."


Metal Blade
2026
CD
€16.00
AVERSIO HUMANITATIS - To Become The Endless Static
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AVERSIO HUMANITATIS
To Become The Endless Static

Comes with a 16-page booklet and a download card. Pressed on transparent blue with black smoke heavy vinyl. Colors on final record may vary to a degree from the mockup.

Madrid's AVERSIO HUMANITATIS follow-up 2020's white-hot "Behold the Silent Dwellers" with another stunning slice of unrelenting, modernist and oft-dissonant Black Metal.

Third full-length "To Become The Endless Static" finds the band on devastatingly intense terrain: a hammer-blow of astounding riffing, warped leads, riotous drumming and ultra-committed vocals all wrapped in an oppressive atmosphere as serious as your life.


Debemur Morti
2026
LP
€24.00
AVERSIO HUMANITATIS - To Become The Endless Static
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AVERSIO HUMANITATIS
To Become The Endless Static

Comes in a 4-panel digipack w/ a 16-page booklet. First batch comes in black polycarbonate CD.

Madrid's AVERSIO HUMANITATIS follow-up 2020's white-hot "Behold the Silent Dwellers" with another stunning slice of unrelenting, modernist and oft-dissonant Black Metal.

Third full-length "To Become The Endless Static" finds the band on devastatingly intense terrain: a hammer-blow of astounding riffing, warped leads, riotous drumming and ultra-committed vocals all wrapped in an oppressive atmosphere as serious as your life.


Debemur Morti
2026
DIGI CD
€13.00
XORSIST - Aberrations (Splatter)
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XORSIST
Aberrations (Splatter)

Ravenous Swedish Death Metal! Heavy, raw, melodic and mercilessly dark!

Hailing from Stockholm, Sweden, the breeding ground of Entombed, Dismember and Unleashed, Xorsist carry the city’s Death Metal legacy with conviction.

Rooted in the raw buzz saw tradition of early ’90s Swedish Death Metal yet sharpened with modern bite, the band have steadily risen through the underground with “Deadly Possession” (2022) and “At the Somber Steps of Serenity” (2023).

While their earlier recordings honored the path that defined the classic Stockholm sound, “Aberrations” marks a decisive step forward, eclipsing everything that came before it and presenting a clearer, more defined expression of the band’s musical vision.

With this new chapter, Xorsist continue to carry the Swedish Death Metal torch into darker territory!


Hammerheart
2026
LP
€24.00
XORSIST - Aberrations (Slipcase)
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XORSIST
Aberrations (Slipcase)

Ravenous Swedish Death Metal! Heavy, raw, melodic and mercilessly dark!

Hailing from Stockholm, Sweden, the breeding ground of Entombed, Dismember and Unleashed, Xorsist carry the city’s Death Metal legacy with conviction.

Rooted in the raw buzz saw tradition of early ’90s Swedish Death Metal yet sharpened with modern bite, the band have steadily risen through the underground with “Deadly Possession” (2022) and “At the Somber Steps of Serenity” (2023).

While their earlier recordings honored the path that defined the classic Stockholm sound, “Aberrations” marks a decisive step forward, eclipsing everything that came before it and presenting a clearer, more defined expression of the band’s musical vision.

With this new chapter, Xorsist continue to carry the Swedish Death Metal torch into darker territory!


Hammerheart
2026
CD
€14.00

HELLISH CROSSFIRE
Bloodrust Scythe

REISSUE 2015


High Roller Records
2015
CD
€14.00

Avantgarde Music

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NAPALM DEATH - The best of
Second hand
€6.00
ULVER - 1993-2003: 1st Decade In The Machines
Second hand
€9.00
SUNN O))) - ØØ Void
Second hand

SUNN O)))
ØØ Void

Rise Above
2000
CD
€9.00
SUNN O))) - Oracle
Rare Second hand

SUNN O)))
Oracle

 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.


Southern Lord
 
CD
€29.00
SUNN O))) - Black One
Rare Second hand

SUNN O)))
Black One

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


Southern Lord
2015
2CD
€32.00
ELANE - The Fire Of Glenvore
Second hand

ELANE
The Fire Of Glenvore

MINT COPY ON Kalinkaland Records


2004
CD
€13.00
THE GATHERING - Sleepy Buildings - A Semi Acoustic Evening
Second hand

THE GATHERING
Sleepy Buildings - A Semi Acoustic Evening

Comes with quite a few scratches on disc surface VG-


Century Media
 
CD
€5.00
A SWARM OF THE SUN -  The rifts
Second hand
€8.50
ATARAXIA - Spasms
Second hand

ATARAXIA
Spasms

Infinite fog
2025
CD
€8.00
JARBOE - Alchemic
Rare Second hand

JARBOE
Alchemic

Twilight
2025
DIGI CD
€20.00
STORMFAGEL - Ett Berg Av Fasa
Second hand

STORMFAGEL
Ett Berg Av Fasa

pre owned copy

comes with cracked tray (digi is VG-)

Disc is NM


2010
DIGI CD
€5.00
DISMAL - Rubino Liquido
Second hand

DISMAL
Rubino Liquido

PRE OWNED COPY

VG+ / VG


Dream Cell 11
 
DIGI CD
€6.00
SUBAUDITION - Light On The Path
Second hand
€7.00
PRAG 83 - Metamorphoses
Second hand

PRAG 83
Metamorphoses

German PRAG 83 delivers mellow, sublime and dark alternate folk – rugged to the bone and close to earth. Musically unique with elements that reminds of the Katatonia´s ”Discouraged ones” era but also not far away from the works by the northern woodsmen of Lönndom

Ascolta su YouTube


Nordvis
2016
CD
€6.00
SUBAUDITION - The Scope
Second hand

SUBAUDITION
The Scope

Prophecy
 
DIGI CD
€7.00
STORMFAGEL - Eldvakt
Second hand

STORMFAGEL
Eldvakt

Near Mint


2010
DIGI CD
€8.00
LETHE - The First Corpse On The Moon
Second hand
€8.00
KATLA - Módurástin
Second hand

KATLA
Módurástin

Katla is an Icelandic band featuring ex-Sólstafir drummer and visual artist Guðmundur Óli Pálmason and singer/multi-instrumentalist Einar Thorberg Guðmundsson (Fortíð, Potentiam). Named in tribute to one of Iceland's greatest active volcanos, Katla creates powerful, panoramic music where shimmering guitars, crushing melodies and atmospheric density meet dark, entrancing power.

Katla's debut album, "Móðurástin", shines a spotlight on the band's hook-heavy, horizon-stretching sound. The lyrics tell tales of living in a country of contrasts; a land where fire and ice co-exist and dark winters are offset by the summer's midnight sun. Iceland: a country where insular existence has spurred a rich and vibrant culture.
"Móðurástin", Icelandic for (a) Mother's Love, might seem like a strange title for a metal album, but Katla dares to be different. What on Earth is stronger than a mother's love? Nothing. Not hate, not lust, not greed.

Ascolta su YouTube


Prophecy
2017
DIGI CD
€8.00
ELDAMAR - The Force of the Ancient Land (first press)
Rare Second hand

ELDAMAR
The Force of the Ancient Land (first press)

First press on digipak. Long sold out 

Disc: absolutely mint never played,  Digipak: VG+

Through time and space, a spirit that won't show face. The living man will feel, but the spirit do not kneel. Cause I am not it`s master, it controls everything that grows faster. Three and man is equal out through the sequel. Treat this with respect, the force will protect.
Eldamar Is heavily inspired by the North lands nature Power. Look at it as a journey, and drift away in your own dreams.
 


Northern Silence
2016
DIGI CD
€37.00
THROES OF DAWN - Our Voices Shall Remain
Rare Second hand

THROES OF DAWN
Our Voices Shall Remain

Argonauta records
 
DIGI CD
€21.00
CREMATION - Extermination Of The Ungraceful
Second hand

CREMATION
Extermination Of The Ungraceful

Band self-released cdr


 
CD
€8.00
CREMATION - Hate Contamination
Second hand
€9.00
NO PLEASURE IN LIFE - Happiness Is Not An Option
Second hand

NO PLEASURE IN LIFE
Happiness Is Not An Option

Quite a A few scratches on disc


WAR Against yourself
2013
CD
€6.00
 VINTLECHKEIT - Utfordre vintermørke... / Svarte død... / Aldrig...
Second hand

VINTLECHKEIT
Utfordre vintermørke... / Svarte død... / Aldrig...

Black Metal/Ambient from Norway


WAR Against yourself
2019
CD
€7.00