Three years may've passed since that recording, but MALICIOUS have only become more unhinged in the meantime. Witness the four-song Merciless Storm. Tauntingly titled once again, Merciless Storm picks up right where Deranged Hexes left off, but sees the Finns following a natural progression in all aspects. With a runtime of 11 minutes, it's mercilessly / mercifully short and sweet, upping the violence and aggression to levels impossibly beyond that nuclear-powered debut album. And yet, the songwriting remains stout and streamlined and perhaps minutely more detailed and even palatably "refined." If anything, Merciless Storm possesses a clearer soundfield, but that only amplifies the savagery to an insane degree, especially the '80s Slayer-style 

Arising from Vancouver’s potent extreme metal mire, REVERSED initially materialized in 2015 through a dedication to the SPIRIT of real DEATH METAL and a rabid OBSESSION with DEATH. Guided by more passion than execution, this collection of well-honed ghouls quickly fell into a sepulchral trance to channel a singular form of necrotic, razor-lined heavy metal devilry.

Dying to crack open the tomb, REVERSED harnessed and released the Widow Recluse demo tape into the wild in 2018 via Muerto En La Cruz and the recently closed Temple of Mystery. Showcasing the band’s gestating lunacy, the demo revealed shades of black, death, and thrash violently assembled into a refined vision of chaotic mayhem - a runaway train barely remaining on the rails. Due to wild demand, this was immediately followed by vinyl and CD versions on Temple of Mystery in 2019.

Mages Terror are built upon the fiery hunger of Illogium's will to create a third psyche outside of Portal and Vomitor which would explore the devotion to the arts of thrashing ancient death and speed metal with the traditional essence. Elite levels of darkness and hate are fused with simplified, structured headbanging riffs, adorned with scathing vocals and a mix of shredding vs. haunting solos.

Alongside him is guitarist Rotten, hailing from the Brisbane death metal unit Pustilence, with his highly skilled virtuoso style of soloing, which offsets the atonal horror of the solo work by Illogium - a complementary guitar duo. Vocalist / bassist Stillborn, who also bleeds over from Pustilence, unleashes a scathing presence that commands over the dual fire. Drums are pounded by CY, who has graced bands in the past such as Mongrels Cross, Impetuous Ritual, 

Forged in heretical fire while lurking in the darkest shadows of the underground for the past 13 years, this London (UK) band formed by Swedish, Spanish, Greek, and Polish musicians has crafted a debut album that's guaranteed to send cold shivers down your spine. A truly sinister musical journey containing 9 forbidden rites deeply steeped in witchcraft, necromancy, and an overall occult and utterly macabre atmosphere, NECROMANIAC's first full-length is everything its weighty title promises...and more!

Forged in heretical fire while lurking in the darkest shadows of the underground for the past 13 years, this London (UK) band formed by Swedish, Spanish, Greek, and Polish musicians has crafted a debut album that's guaranteed to send cold shivers down your spine. A truly sinister musical journey containing 9 forbidden rites deeply steeped in witchcraft, necromancy, and an overall occult and utterly macabre atmosphere, NECROMANIAC's first full-length is everything its weighty title promises...and more!

Nearly 3 years after the release of their debut full-length PERSECUTION OF THE LIVING, Grave Infestation return with their follow up CARNAGE GATHERS. Returning to work with Invictus Productions for this release and teaming up this time with Dark Descent Records, the album was recorded and mixed with engineer Greg Wilkinson at the infamous Earhammer Studios, producing a vile record that is a sonic push forward. Eight tracks and 40-minutes of violent, unrelenting death metal: the fast parts are faster, the slow parts are slower and everything is just plain nastier. Grave Infestation continues to pull influences from the likes of AUTOPSY, GRAVE, NIHILIST, REPULSION, and ABHORRENCE and mould them into a sound that is their own. Combined with Misanthropic Art Illustration’s ominous artwork, this release will be sure to stay glued to your turntable.

CD in Digipak with 12-page booklet.

When darkness engulfs the world, NITE sets the sky ablaze with white-hot, blackened heavy metal.
Having completed their journey through the stars on ‘Voices of the Kronian Moon’, NITE now faces the abyssal and shadowy mythology that has long laid dormant on their third album, ‘Cult of the Serpent Sun’.
Fans who yearn for the days of molten guitar leads, chest-rattling bass and stadium-shaking drums flock to NITE’s circle, and stay for the snarling vocals that speak to metal’s esoteric underground.The title track charges with a newfound urgency for NITE, slithering and venomous in its attack. “Crow (Fear the Night)” is a rallying cry, calling for fists to rise with power and might. “The Mystic” expands the band's sonic palette, featuring a slow-burning bass line that stretches time and space into a hypnotic portal. Van Labrakis’ road-hardened voice stands defiant in “Carry On”, denouncing the perils of war and peering through the mists of time.
On ‘Cult of the Serpent Sun’, NITE guards the altar of blackened heavy metal with sharpened blades and axes raised.

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Second pressing, brown splatters on white vinyl 

With an inception going back to 2019, Defacement rapidly gained momentum within the underground realms with two full-length records marked by an intense and experimental take on death and black metal, Deviant (2019) and self-titled Defacement (2021). Three long years after their latest output, the international band flares its cryptic head yet again with an epic tome of twisted and gnarly emanations, an immersive pathway into the void entitled Duality.

Defacement's third studio record is challenging and confrontational in its invocation of primal forces lying dormant in the world below. Inspired by the unfathomable, shadowy corners of human existence, Defacement hatches a penetrating sonic journey, unpredictable in its own dynamic, ever-changing form. Intricate and complex riffing lay as a basis for dexterous melodies, making Duality the most complete and mature among the band’s outputs. The cold and experimental interludes entangled between tracks, serve as halting moments that further the conceptuality of Duality and broaden the gist of the main songs.

The tremendous rhythmic section, a complex and throbbing pulse of drumming fierceness and serpentine bass playing, is superiorly captured by the dynamic and organic production, a vigorous sound that evokes both an oppressive aura and wistful solemnity. Gabriele Gramaglia (Cosmic Putrefaction, Vertebra Atlantis) and Simon Da Silva (Aversio Humanitatis) took care respectively of the mixing and mastering, finely crafting the details of Defacement’s new album. 

DDuplicate Records proudly presents EXECRATION's full-length debut album Syndicate Of Lethargy on vinyl for the first time. Remastered and re-edited, and with a new cover artwork, the album is finally available in its definite edition, on the fomat it deserves!

Formed in 2004, Execration - a two-piece, at the time - recorded their first demo in 2005: six heavily thrash-inspired songs and a cover of Celtic Frost's "Into The Crypts of Rays". In 2006, original member Jorgen Maristuen returned to the band, and the focus shifted towards death metal. They wrote and recorded their first 5 song EP, Language of the Dead. The EP was released in early 2007 through Entartete Musik, the now defunct label of Espen Hangaard (Noplacetohide, Killl, She Said Destroy, Diskord).

Duplicate Records proudly presents EXECRATION's debut EP release Language Of The Dead on vinyl for the first time. In addition to the half hour long EP itself the full-length LP will include the previously unreleased 10-minute track Imminent Doom, that was intended for a compilation that never came to fruition.

Execration is tastefully executed brutal Death Metal from Oslo, Norway. Half an hour of brutal death metal in the vein of the legendary Immolation, Suffocation, Nile, etc.

Duplicate Records proudly presents the vinyl reissue of EXECRATION's landmark 2011 album Odes Of The Occult, to be released on double gatefold LP January 2025!

EXECRATION's (Norway) second full-length album, "Odes of the Occult" contains 9 tracks of vicious, evil death metal. It parts with the percussive style of previous releases in favor of a wider set of influences drawing from death metal, doom and cult black metal. In 60+ minutes, "Odes of the Occult" will make your ears bleed from dark, brutal doom-laced death metal chemically cleansed of any "modern" death metal tricks.

Duplicate Records proudly presents Nimmermeer, the debut album from Norwegian atmospheric doom outfit HJEMLENGSEL on LP and CD. The double vinyl LP version includes the band's debut EP (2010) as a bonus, exclusive to this format.

The story of Hjemlengsel (Norwegian for homesickness) dates back to
2004/2005, and it all started with a wish to create music without
genre defining boundaries. In 2009 the band recorded a self-titled EP,
which was released digitally in 2010. After a period in hibernation,
the first full length album was completed during the summer of 2021,
and is finally ready to be released winter 2024.

The music on Nimmermeer (Dutch for nevermore) is best described as
atmospheric, sometimes progressive, melodic (not quite) doom,
dominated by long instrumental passages with sparse, clean vocals
throughout. There's a cold, arctic atmosphere permeating the material,
with the crystal clear production perfectly suiting the carefully
orchestrated compositions. Yet, amid the cold landscapes, there's a
comforting warmth, providing the beautiful duality of the natural
elements so perfectly ingrained in HJEMLENGSEL's sound.

Duplicate Records proudly presents Of Temples And Vultures, the sophomore full-length album of international black/death metal band OCULUS.

Five years after their debut, The Apostate Of Light (via Blood Harvest Records), Serbian / Czech / US trio OCULUS are set to unleash their second full-length album Of Temples And Vultures.

Combining dissonant riffs with haunting melodic passages underscored by the organic, yet heavy production, Of Temples And Vultures condenses the best parts of its predecessor and whips them into an even harder-hitting and more coherent effort. Downright spooky in places, yet never loosing focus on what is at heart a perfect amalgam of atmospheric black metal and brutal death metal.

Duplicate Records proudly presents Of Temples And Vultures, the sophomore full-length album of international black/death metal band OCULUS.

Five years after their debut, The Apostate Of Light (via Blood Harvest Records), Serbian / Czech / US trio OCULUS are set to unleash their second full-length album Of Temples And Vultures.

Combining dissonant riffs with haunting melodic passages underscored by the organic, yet heavy production, Of Temples And Vultures condenses the best parts of its predecessor and whips them into an even harder-hitting and more coherent effort. Downright spooky in places, yet never loosing focus on what is at heart a perfect amalgam of atmospheric black metal and brutal death metal.

Following up their necksnapping 2020 debut Blood Of The Deceivers with an even more intense slab of bloodcurdling death thrash Norwegian riff masters PROSELYTISM return more vicious than ever!
Desecrating those ancient bones from the time when thrash metal was starting to evolve more and more towards death metal, these 30 minutes of metal thrashing mayhem will relentlessly pummel any unsuspecting listener into submission.
Fans of oldschool thrash of the fast and brutal kind, take heed and give in to PROSELYTISM!

many sellers would rate this as a NM--- there's moderate physiological signs of use and storage, but all in all great shape

Media Condition: Near Mint 
Sleeve Condition: Mint 

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Sleeve mint, Disc near mint (just a couple of light scratches)

NEAR MINT! like new ! Gold vinyl, includes printed card (numbered)  

"777 – Sects(s)" is an organic, cascading volume of deviant, dark art that exhibits BLUT AUS NORD’s natural habitat, a cleansing blade amid transitory moments of non-importance. Hypnotic guitars, discomforting beats and alienating voices clash with the ferocity of aural tectonic plates to produce horrific Black Metal decadence for an anonymous, lost, irrelevant generation.
 

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

Media Condition: Mint 
Sleeve Condition: Near Mint 

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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

12", Unofficial Release, Blue

Media Condition: Near Mint (NM or M-)
Sleeve Condition: Near Mint (NM or M-)

Bootleg. Absence of sleeve, only two slabs of thick paper with the artwork. Contains only a fragment of 10 tracks compared to "Vinterskugge" CD releaces which have 16 tracks.
Tracks A1-B2 taken from "Vandreren" 1993 demo
Tracks B3-B5 taken from "Horizons" 1991 demo
Limited to 500 copies.

Media Condition: Mint (M) 
Sleeve Condition: Mint (M)

Small (2 cm)  cut on the bottom side of the cover, as typical in those years, to mark nice-price, ovestocks or promo copies, they either drilled or cut the sleeve

Black vinyl version. Compilation of the "Satanist Stryken" demo tape and "Hail Satanas, We Are The Black Legions" 7" EP.

Media Condition: Mint (M)
Sleeve Condition: Near Mint (NM or M-)

700 copies on black vinyl 
Includes A2 poster, lyric insert and 12x12cm sticker

Near Mint / Near Mint

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).

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the heirs of Nortt?

New mini-album from German black metal cult PARIA.

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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.

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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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Contains the last 3 Demos of the finnish Horde. Bestial Black/Death/Doom Metal with members of Witchcraft and Ceremonial Torture 

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!

Havukruunu is the spirit of freedom, harbinger of oblivion, and it tells you: FLY, YOU FOOLS!

Svart Records is set to release the band’s fourth album TAVASTLAND in February 2025

After three albums, the pieces of the puzzle fit, and Havukruunu, the favorite band of the sensitive and sorrowful returns with a vengeance to blur the line between the real and unreal. The sorrowful guitars of Stefa and Bootleg-Henkka draw threatening dark shadows on the wall, Kostajainen's drumming bombardement pulses like embers of a dying fire in the hearth. All the while, Humö's bass guitar is clanking and wailing like the icy wind rattling windows and banging walls, as Stefa roars and channels messages from the netherworld or preaches wisdom of ancient days, backed by a choir.

Lords of Hell smile approving as the flames of hatred and cunning of their beloved sons drowns a dying old world, and heart of the earth trembles the birth of new and weird. Havukruunu is the spirit of freedom, harbinger of oblivion, and it tells you: FLY, YOU FOOLS! 

Havukruunu’s upcoming album TAVASTLAND tells the story of a small, strange people.

”-TAVASTLAND tells how in 1237 the Tavastians rose in a rebellion against the church of Christ and drove the popes naked into the frost to die. TAVASTLAND reveals our fathers’ centuries old sins and lies of consolation. TAVASTLAND speaks of him, who has become a prisoner of his home, alienated from the land of the forest and is now afraid of the dark with all lights on, surrounded by his smart devices. TAVASTLAND tells about the freedom we lost. TAVASTLAND haunts its listener to the grave, and I will personally open that grave one bleak night, and steal the fading light of your sempiternal soul.”, says Stefa. 

TAVASTLAND is available on Svart exclusive ice & blood vinyl edition, limited to 666 copies. Also available on limited amber & black smoke vinyl, classic black vinyl, CD, cassette tape, and digital platforms. All vinyl editions of the first pressing include a booklet and poster. New Havukruunu T-shirt also up for pre-order now at Svart’s webstore. Release date February 28^th, 2025

Cacophonous atmospheres and eldritch tendrils pulls one into this marvelously eerie record and biting, scathing musicianship will hold the attentiveness of all listeners as the murk clears, showcasing a whole new realm of horrors lurking behind the veil. Gaze into The Black Mouth Of Sepulchre. See what lies beneath and hear the undying sounds of the underworld spewing through into a waking nightmare of pure death metal ecstasy.

• Ferocious Dutch death metal band 
• Stunning cover art by the masterful Paolo Girardi

Abruptum worship insanity by Swartadauþuz of Ancient Records.
Original LP and Tape release kills. Equally excellent mastered CD edition that won't leave anyone unsatisfied.
Music written by Swartadauthuz (Azelisassath, Bekëth Nexëhmü, Gnipahålan, Urkaos, etc..)

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In late October 2019, following a successful UK tour ending in a sold-out concert at the mythical Roundhouse in London, SUNN O))) entered studio 4 of the BBC Maida Vale. On invitation to record a live session for Mary Anne Hobbs to be broadcast on Samhain via her excellent radio show on BBC6. To enter the legendary John Peel studios was to enter a temple of music and experimentation, liberty in ideas and sound. The band was nearing the end of a long touring year around the Life Metal and Pyroclast albums. SUNN O))) had developed the compositions extensively, embracing the formative concepts of the Life Metal album conceptually and emotionally, but actualised and evolved into vast, open and bright hypersaturated arrangements. Particularly the pieces the band chose to perform on this recording: Troubled Air and Pyroclasts. The former enriched into a total aspect of the band's ethos and form in many ways, and Pyroclasts had evolved to become all-inclusive radiation of O))). The radiation embraces collaboration and freedom of interpretation by each player, within a structural format of the massive monuments of sound and distortion which define SUNN O))). Anna Von Hausswolf and her band had accompanied SUNN O))) on the UK leg, and Anna joined SUNN O))) in the studio on synths and with her tremendous voice on the Pyroclasts pieces.

Two years after the release of their last album “Wolves Among The Ashes”, Svart Crown comes
back with a sixth and new opus. The EP, called “Les Terres Brûlées” will be released as a coproduction
between the band’s label Nova Lux Production and Les Acteurs de l’Ombre Productions.
Just like a return to the basics, the five tracks that compose this EP form up a sulfuric halo between
rage and transcendance. Recorded in several Southern France places and once again mixed by
Francis Caste at Saint-Marthe studio, the organic, made for live production gives a suffocating
warmth to the album’s five pieces. Like a kind of epitaph, “Les Terres Brûlées” is a true abstract of
the band’s 18 years of experience.
The first track to be revealed, “Digitalis Purpurea” is an astral journey through the
inconscience limbo. A chaotic vision of its own death warrant, between dream and reality,
where fire, opiates and sulfur smell coexist.

Hailing from Italy, TALV started in early 2012 under the name of Trees In The Fog. Their purpose has always been to merge dissonant and melancholic black metal with a touch of ambient music.
Like painting a dismal scenario, TALV’s new effort is drowned into the darkest north-Italian naturalistic black metal inspiration. The cold and freezing guitar sound reminds of Tenebrae in Perpetuum and Beatrik’s classics, while the prevailing desperate feelings position the band within the groove of depressive black metal.
What makes of Talv a personal and unique project is the wise equilibrium between a hateful, cold hunger and a fragile background soundscape. The ColdWorld cover further emphasizes the strong visionary ambient perspective and inspiration of this raising underground project.

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"VIRTUS" is the second part of the "Neofolk Finland" trilogy that "PATRIA" started in 2012. This time, after the gloomy and bog-stenched "NOITANAAMA", TERVAHÄÄT takes a leap towards more traditional neofolk... but quickly sidesteps to krautish industrial psychedelia and takes a cover in the trenches of futurism or even visions of 100 years old modernism.

Atmospheric black metal from Finland

Darkness is falling. A cold wind blows from the snow-covered Carpathians, making the windows rattle and the corners of the house creak. Something is coming, eyes flashing red in the night and its footprints filled with grave dirt. What nocturnal terror is this? Why, it’s the arrival of the long-awaited third album by The Coffinshakers, folks.

While most bands quickly lose the spark, The Coffinshakers have stayed relevant – eternal like the undead. Though humor is their hallmark, there is also poignancy and something genuinely spine-tingling in their rugged, melancholy ballads. And this new offering shows them at the height of their baleful, campy power. They truly are a band that ages like fine wine – although vampires, of course, never drink… wine.

Much will be familiar to dedicated fans. Rob’s trademark malevolent chuckles still reverberate with sardonic glee, the deep rumble of his voice continuing to send all yellow-bellies hiding behind the barn. At the same time, his vocals have gained in both power and subtleness. The same goes for the guitar, bass, and drum work, now incorporating a broader array of classic Americana influences. These unholy badmen have drunk the blood straight from the neck of the authentic country, bluegrass, folk and other rootsy music of inbred US backwaters – and it has made their fangs sharper than ever.

And though The Coffinshakers still ride forth with tongue firmly planted in cheek, there is a new apocalyptic urgency to their third offering. From the marching drums of the desolate “Graves, Release Your Dead” to the echoing vocals of “River of Souls” and the cathartic cataclysm of “Down in Flames”, it all forebodes the imminent end of the whole dirty enchilada of existence. The band’s flippancy comes with a genuinely unsettling kernel of darkness – and black humor is always the most satisfying. Vampires may not cry, but we all know they laugh wickedly as they rise from the bone orchard.

Regular edition in jewel case.

"Saga" is the band's 4th album and by now I think we can dispense with comparisons. The Flight Of Sleipnir have become their own reference - a fact to which a large and continuously growing fan base attests. On "Saga" David & Clay have further refined what has become their very own style, a totally unique combination of Viking and Doom Metal with progessive elements, which they developed and improved with every release. In this respect, the new album is a consequent continuation of "Essence Of Nine", with its focus on acoustic parts, melodic guitar leads and clean vocals on the one hand, and raw Viking/Black Metal outbursts on the other, everything merged into a seamless whole. In short, an exciting and never boring or repetitive journey through a rough northern landscape, interspersed with relaxed nights around the campfire.

The Haunting Green are Cristiano Perin (vocals, guitars, synthesizers) and Chantal Fresco (drums and percussions). Formed in 2012 and based on North-East Italy, their music is constantly going in the direction of a coexistence within the aggressive vibes of extreme metal with ambient-drone and dark electronic music.

After a debut EP and collaborative split album, “Natural Extinctions”is their first full-length album which explores the inability of human beings to preserve their innocence and the bond with nature during their existence. The focus on “Natural Extinctions” is to merge extreme metal with the suggestive language of drone / ambient and ritual music, highlighting in some ways the "percussive" side of their music. This isn't an ordinary concept album but, actually, there is a hidden thread connecting the 7 tracks, relating the inevitable destiny of every human being to inhibit, suppress and lose, along his life, some of the most pure and atavistic aspects of their own soul, to adapt and live with the hostile environment that surrounds him. Adaptability on the one hand strengthens and leads to move forward, but, on the other hand, corrupts and makes us lose the most spiritual and pure side of us: the most precious.