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Galibot is a melodic black metal band – but it is also the name given to children who were sent to work in the mines of northern France. And for good reason, as the quintet hails from there. At the beginning of 2026, the band released an alternative version of their first album, entitled ‘Euch’Mau Noir bis’, signed by Les Acteurs de l’Ombre Productions. Initiated in 2023 by Thomas, Agathe and Clément, the project, initially a studio project, aims to establish a parallel between the raw and visceral dark matter that is coal and black metal music. Wallers-Arenberg, the name of the town where the project was born and which bears the scars of the mining industry, was the demo for what was still only a trio. Following the release of their first album, ‘Euch’Mau Noir’, Galibot decided to try their hand at live performances, and Julian and Rob joined the band. This collaboration ultimately led them to write their second album together, this time as a five-piece, to be released next May on Les Acteurs de l’Ombre Productions. Galibot will also be hitting the road to offer a cavernous live experience of fire and ashes.
Sweden's October Tide was the project formed by Katatonia members Jonas Renkse and Fredrik Norrman in 1995, with much of the material being written during a period of inactivity for their main band.
Grey Dawn was October Tide's second album, originally released in 1999.
Following the successful launch of the comprehensive reissue campaign for the musical legacy of Sweden's pioneering melodic death metal band Edge of Sanity and versatile hard rock outfit Nightingale, the fourth and final chapter of titles is set to be released in spring 2026.
Dan Swanö, the frontman of both EDGE OF SANITY and NIGHTINGALE, as well as a vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and acclaimed metal producer (Opeth, Katatonia, Dissection, Bloodbath, etc.), released his debut (and only) solo album, Moontower, in 1999. This featured keyboard-oriented, atmospheric, and 1970s-inspired death metal.
Remaster 2026 Version of "Moontower"
The first (and only) solo album by acclaimed musician/songwriter/producer Dan Swanö (Edge Of Sanity, Nightingale, etc.), remastered by Swanö himself and now finally available again in its definitive re-issue edition. First released in 1999, “Moontower” finds Swanö at his most creative, a sort of homage to “death metal from 1972”. The album features pivotal tracks such as “Sun of the Night”, “Uncreation”, “Add Reality” and “In Empty Phrases”, which are some of Swanö’s best to date. His guitars hum, keyboards swirl, and vocals intimidate against introspective lyrics. Fall through the passage of time one last time!
Black 12" vinyl (33 rpm) in gatefold with insert and photo poster of Asrunn and Mark (A2-size).
Second pressing 250 copies worldwide.
Born from ritual, trance, and joyful defiance, EIHWAR stand apart in the modern pagan scene. The duo fuse Nordic folk, electro-industrial pulse, and raw percussive power into something fiercely alive.
With ‘Hugrheim’, EIHWAR take listeners deep into the tenth, hidden world of Yggdrasil. This second album expands their mythic universe with thunderous war drums, chanting in trance languages, and an irreverent energy that rejects solemn reenactment in favor of visceral experience. Each track functions as a gateway, moving between battle rites, ancestral memory, and altered states of consciousness. The record balances ritual intensity with sharp rhythmic drive, shaped for both solitary immersion and explosive live settings.
Anchored in Norse inspiration yet free from dogma, ‘Hugrheim’ feels both ancient and strikingly present. It is a concept album, a soundtrack for transformation, and a celebration of spirit made sound.
For fans of HEILUNG, DANHEIM, CARPENTER BRUT, LAIBACH.
CD in deluxe Digipak with 20-page booklet.
Born from ritual, trance, and joyful defiance, EIHWAR stand apart in the modern pagan scene. The duo fuse Nordic folk, electro-industrial pulse, and raw percussive power into something fiercely alive.
With ‘Hugrheim’, EIHWAR take listeners deep into the tenth, hidden world of Yggdrasil. This second album expands their mythic universe with thunderous war drums, chanting in trance languages, and an irreverent energy that rejects solemn reenactment in favor of visceral experience. Each track functions as a gateway, moving between battle rites, ancestral memory, and altered states of consciousness. The record balances ritual intensity with sharp rhythmic drive, shaped for both solitary immersion and explosive live settings.
Anchored in Norse inspiration yet free from dogma, ‘Hugrheim’ feels both ancient and strikingly present. It is a concept album, a soundtrack for transformation, and a celebration of spirit made sound.
For fans of HEILUNG, DANHEIM, CARPENTER BRUT, LAIBACH.
Born for Burning: The History of Black Metal tells the fierce, shadow-drenched story of one of heavy music's most extreme and transgressive movements. From its gestation in the early 80's under raw, primitive riffs, Satanic imagery, and underground ferocity, to its darker peaks in the Norwegian scene and its global, multifaceted evolution, Matías Gallardo maps every blistering beat, every distorted chord, and every howl that defined what became Black Metal.
Drawing on over 100 interviews with legendary cult figures from all over the world - Venom, Bathory, Celtic Frost, Master's Hammer, Profanatica, Blasphemy, Tormentor, Mayhem, Darkthrone, Burzum, Emperor, Cradle of Filth, Dimmu Borgir, Ulver, Watain, Agalloch, Xasthur, Leviathan, Alcest, Misþyrming and many more - this is a chronicle of artistry and outrage, of beauty and brutality, Gallardo not only explores the music, the influences and the aesthetics, and the sonic innovations, but also does not shy away from the crime, the chaos, the church burnings, and the acts that shocked the world.
With a prologue by Dan Lilker (Nuclear Assault), and an introduction by Nocturno Culto (Darkthrone), Born for Burning is a powerful, unflinching journey through terror, transgression, and uncompromising passion. For fans, scholars, or anyone curious about how the underground became myth, this book is essential - and it burns.
386 pages
Legendary Nortt's 1998 demo finally and officially released after a few unauthorized versions.
Comes with bonus track "Nattens Tale"
Extra limited edition to 80 ex
Legendary Nortt's 1998 demo finally and officially released after a few unauthorized versions.
Comes with bonus track "Nattens Tale"
Digipak edition ltd 300
Legendary Nortt's 1998 demo finally and officially released after a few unauthorized versions.
Comes with bonus track "Nattens Tale"
Marble vinyl edition (150 copies)
Legendary Nortt's 1998 demo finally and officially released after a few unauthorized versions.
Comes with bonus track "Nattens Tale"
Black vinyl edition (100 copies)
Limited edition reprint (200) of the official 2016 re-issue. Co-released with H.O.D. Productions
Limited edition reprint (200) of the official 2016 re-issue. Co-released with H.O.D. Productions
Limited edition reprint (200) of the official 2016 re-issue. Co-released with H.O.D. Productions
Limited edition reprint (200) of the official 2016 re-issue. Co-released with H.O.D. Productions
Making heads turn since 2016 with the old school yet progressive cosmic death metal exposed in their demos, EPs and split with Undeath and Into Coffin, Italy's Devoid Of Thought released their 40 minutes debut full-length album Outer World Graves via Everlasting Spew Records in 2021. Between 2022 and 2025 the band focused on live activities, playing a number of prime festivals and shows such as Frantic Fest, Brutal Assault, Stige Fest, several European tours with Artificial Brain and Ad Nauseam and supported bands like Beherit, Necrot, Suffering Hour and many more…
Combining influences from bands like Timeghoul, Blood Incantation, Voivod and Incantation in a unique, bizarre and twisted vortex, the Italian quartet is now ready to celebrate its tenth year of existence with their sophomore studio record, self-titled Devoid Of Thought.
From outer world graves, where stars go to die and the effigies of distant planets are found, the portal has now opened toward a quantum leap, placed at the incipit of the end. The panspermic biodome is a colorful multiverse, awash in stellar life and boiling with transformation. Time here represents an entropic euphoria and is no longer a mortal clock. From a putrescent mire, a new form of life is born, endowed with an unprecedented shell, different from that of any known species. Consciousness is now ready to cross the cosmos once again and navigate through oblivion, until returning to a new beginning, in order to experience itself into many forms.
Making heads turn since 2016 with the old school yet progressive cosmic death metal exposed in their demos, EPs and split with Undeath and Into Coffin, Italy's Devoid Of Thought released their 40 minutes debut full-length album Outer World Graves via Everlasting Spew Records in 2021. Between 2022 and 2025 the band focused on live activities, playing a number of prime festivals and shows such as Frantic Fest, Brutal Assault, Stige Fest, several European tours with Artificial Brain and Ad Nauseam and supported bands like Beherit, Necrot, Suffering Hour and many more…
Combining influences from bands like Timeghoul, Blood Incantation, Voivod and Incantation in a unique, bizarre and twisted vortex, the Italian quartet is now ready to celebrate its tenth year of existence with their sophomore studio record, self-titled Devoid Of Thought.
From outer world graves, where stars go to die and the effigies of distant planets are found, the portal has now opened toward a quantum leap, placed at the incipit of the end. The panspermic biodome is a colorful multiverse, awash in stellar life and boiling with transformation. Time here represents an entropic euphoria and is no longer a mortal clock. From a putrescent mire, a new form of life is born, endowed with an unprecedented shell, different from that of any known species. Consciousness is now ready to cross the cosmos once again and navigate through oblivion, until returning to a new beginning, in order to experience itself into many forms.
Making heads turn since 2016 with the old school yet progressive cosmic death metal exposed in their demos, EPs and split with Undeath and Into Coffin, Italy's Devoid Of Thought released their 40 minutes debut full-length album Outer World Graves via Everlasting Spew Records in 2021. Between 2022 and 2025 the band focused on live activities, playing a number of prime festivals and shows such as Frantic Fest, Brutal Assault, Stige Fest, several European tours with Artificial Brain and Ad Nauseam and supported bands like Beherit, Necrot, Suffering Hour and many more…
Combining influences from bands like Timeghoul, Blood Incantation, Voivod and Incantation in a unique, bizarre and twisted vortex, the Italian quartet is now ready to celebrate its tenth year of existence with their sophomore studio record, self-titled Devoid Of Thought.
From outer world graves, where stars go to die and the effigies of distant planets are found, the portal has now opened toward a quantum leap, placed at the incipit of the end. The panspermic biodome is a colorful multiverse, awash in stellar life and boiling with transformation. Time here represents an entropic euphoria and is no longer a mortal clock. From a putrescent mire, a new form of life is born, endowed with an unprecedented shell, different from that of any known species. Consciousness is now ready to cross the cosmos once again and navigate through oblivion, until returning to a new beginning, in order to experience itself into many forms.
The actual Album plus the 4 songs from the 2010 Split release with Sapthuran.
Since 2005, Greece's SAD have been a madly prolific bastion of pure 'n' cold black metal. Their canon is vast and varied - VERY relatively so, given that this is all-caps BLACK METAL after all - with the longstanding duo of instrumentalist Ungod and vocalist Nadir exploring the darkest corridors of their souls every step of the way. They did so across a half-dozen albums for such esteemed labels as Drakkar, Obscure Abhorrence, and Old Temple among others as well as a dozen splits, but then joined forces with PURITY THROUGH FIRE in 2020 for the release of their seventh album, Misty Breath of Ancient Forests, and again in 2023 for Black Metal Craft.
Proudly remaining in the PURITY THROUGH FIRE stronghold, SAD return with their ninth(!) album, Fullmoon's Bestial Awakening. While its title might be something of an aesthetic misnomer - this is NOT bestial metal, thankfully - Fullmoon's Bestial Awakening does keep intact the nastiness of Black Metal Craft, making for a complementary record to its cantankerous predecessor. SAD here are characteristically unconcerned with anything in "black metal" during this millennium, still harkening to the glorious late '90s heyday of Sombre Records or the aforementioned Drakkar and yet tempered with the wisdom & resolve surely established by a band who've been around 25 years now. No more but definitely no less, Fullmoon's Bestial Awakening is raw & ripping orkishness shot through with a touch of the melancholic but all stirred malevolently, where hypnotic speed - cruise, gallop, headbang, or any combination thereof - often rights itself into something somewhat regal or at least triumphant. And just like that not-inconsiderable predecessor, SAD's ninth full-length similarly stretches toward the epic, encompassing eight songs in 55 minutes of righteous obsidian splendor. Cold, old, and still no surrender!
comes with an insert card and a poster size A2
galaxy grey vinyl
Black Vinyl
comes with a poster (size A2) and an insert with complete lyrics
Galibot is a melodic black metal band – but it is also the name given to children who were sent to work in the mines of northern France. And for good reason, as the quintet hails from there. At the beginning of 2026, the band released an alternative version of their first album, entitled ‘Euch’Mau Noir bis’, signed by Les Acteurs de l’Ombre Productions. Initiated in 2023 by Thomas, Agathe and Clément, the project, initially a studio project, aims to establish a parallel between the raw and visceral dark matter that is coal and black metal music. Wallers-Arenberg, the name of the town where the project was born and which bears the scars of the mining industry, was the demo for what was still only a trio. Following the release of their first album, ‘Euch’Mau Noir’, Galibot decided to try their hand at live performances, and Julian and Rob joined the band. This collaboration ultimately led them to write their second album together, this time as a five-piece, to be released next May on Les Acteurs de l’Ombre Productions. Galibot will also be hitting the road to offer a cavernous live experience of fire and ashes.
Reissue 2026
Gatefold with extensive book, now comes in "Sea Blu" vinyl color
t’s about time to reveal all the faces of the night! Moonlight Sorcery will release their first full-length album entitled Horned Lord of the Thorned Castle on September 29th. Expect nothing but an ice cold blizzard that will conquer your castles, crumble your towers and withhold the daylight forever!
Horned Lord Of The Thorned Castle is a perfect combination of the atmosphere from Piercing Through the Frozen Eternity and the rawness of Nightwind: The Conqueror from the Stars, the band’s two EPs released in 2022 and early 2023.
Moonlight Sorcery wants to raise the bar, and these new nine songs have even more melodic hooks and shreddy guitar work. Frozen synth walls further develop the Finnish trio’s unique sound, a vibe you cannot find in any other black metal record.
Horned Lord Of The Thorned Castle follows a specific narrative, and its nine compositions tell a single tale, with every song starting where the previous one left off. “Basically, our debut could be a single 44-minute song”, the band said. Yet, the pleasure of learning such a tale is yours. Prepare, wanderer, to meet the Horned Lord of the Thorned Castle!
Mixed and mastered at Unisound by legendary producer and musician Dan Swanö
-Third Pressing on Clear/Black/White Splatter Vinyl
-Gatefold jacket
-12x12 Insert
-Obi Strip with Limited edition LP
Eternal Sorcery! Eternal Sorcery! Eternal Sorcery!
Eight pummeling hymns of dark majesty with every note echoing the burden of piety to the Black Foe of the World.
No remorse will be found in the wailing vocals, coupled with intricate guitar work – blazing with catchy yet somber melodic leads and acoustic lines. And no rest will be felt in the rhythmic, percussive assault - a symbiotic swirling of song and sorcery.
Come and see! As they journey through sonorous blood and fire, as they carry the glorious spark of olden days into unknown eons, with an iron will and a fervor that shines beyond the pathetic perimeters of time and space, into a vortex of Black Medieval Sorrow!
Eternal Sorcery will drag the pitiable listener from the windless Sundering Sea to the Forgotten South of the World, beyond the borders of the sun-lit lands, to that final realm, where the dark nets of enshrouding gloom drape eternal.
They are One of Nine! This is Eternal Sorcery!
Sweden's October Tide was the project formed by Katatonia members Jonas Renkse and Fredrik Norrman in 1995, with much of the material being written during a period of inactivity for their main band.
Grey Dawn was October Tide's second album, originally released in 1999.
Following the successful launch of the comprehensive reissue campaign for the musical legacy of Sweden's pioneering melodic death metal band Edge of Sanity and versatile hard rock outfit Nightingale, the fourth and final chapter of titles is set to be released in spring 2026.
Dan Swanö, the frontman of both EDGE OF SANITY and NIGHTINGALE, as well as a vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and acclaimed metal producer (Opeth, Katatonia, Dissection, Bloodbath, etc.), released his debut (and only) solo album, Moontower, in 1999. This featured keyboard-oriented, atmospheric, and 1970s-inspired death metal.
Remaster 2026 Version of "Moontower"
The first (and only) solo album by acclaimed musician/songwriter/producer Dan Swanö (Edge Of Sanity, Nightingale, etc.), remastered by Swanö himself and now finally available again in its definitive re-issue edition. First released in 1999, “Moontower” finds Swanö at his most creative, a sort of homage to “death metal from 1972”. The album features pivotal tracks such as “Sun of the Night”, “Uncreation”, “Add Reality” and “In Empty Phrases”, which are some of Swanö’s best to date. His guitars hum, keyboards swirl, and vocals intimidate against introspective lyrics. Fall through the passage of time one last time!
Please note: this cd is BRAND NEW and UNPLAYED, but case arrived crashed in the mail and this caused some tearings on the inlay card, therefore sold at nice price
A complete collection of all Iconoclast recordings from 1990 to 1994. Includes the Upcoming Grave demo.
inlcudes 8 pages A4 insert, with interview, photos and old flyers
A complete collection of all Iconoclast recordings from 1990 to 1994. Includes the Upcoming Grave demo.
Splatter violet black
inlcudes 8 pages A4 insert, with interview, photos and old flyers
A complete collection of all Iconoclast recordings from 1990 to 1994. Includes the Upcoming Grave demo.
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+
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.
(PLEASE NOTE_ The human skull is decoration and not part of the box!)
"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
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.
Lavish vinyl edition on 180g black vinyl, housed in a hardcover folder made of black rough solid-coloured cartonstock with embossing. Including 12" sized booklet made of solid-coloured black cartonstock with lyrics.
All folded into two pieces of cartonstock with hotfoil embossing and sealed with wax.
Limited to 300 handnumbered copies.
Vinyl unplayed. Seal was detached to unpack it, but it's still in the evenlope: in general, sleeve is in perfect conditions
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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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).
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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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These songs revolve around the transformation from man to The Übermensch (German for "Overman, Overhuman, Superman, Superhuman), through the purification of the fire and the metaphor of the warrior, mainly taking inspiration from parts of Vijnanabhairava as well as personal experiences of meditation.
Fire is the main element manifested by Shiva, seen as a purifying factor and dissolving, regenerating and annihilating.
In this case also seen as the awakening of a burning and dissolving energy, which brings chaos and destroys the boundaries of mortality to reach immortality.
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Sebastian Montesi is a prolific artist, probably best known for his endeavors in Mitochondrion and for being one of the founding members of Auroch.
With Saturn’s Cross, the Canadian took a very different path, delving into cold wave territories, which little have to share with the bands he is usually associated to. Yet, when we listened to what Sebastian crafted, we had no doubt, and we gladly welcomed this new project to our roster. With neither hope nor fear, Saturn’s Cross unveils Cheat Death. Now operating as a two piece, with 1908 entering the fold on bass and
vocals, Cheat Death disregards genre with wild abandon in favour of something that is at times overwhelmingly abrasive and at others intoxicating.
This is a willing exploration of the endless labyrinth and a lamp of pitch black glass intended to serve as a beacon in the lightless depths of the human spirit. This is a headlong dive into the soul's psychic darkness, with nothing to break the fall. This ushers in a new era Saturn's Cross.
“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.
Another stunning replica from the original edition, almost identical in all details (gatefold cover, with insert and poster)
Gatefold sleeve, clear vinyl, limited 200
Nortt fifth album
Media Condition: Mint (M)
Sleeve Condition: Mint (M)
Debut album of Post Punk/Black Metal project AVES, Cold?Grey, Solitude and melancholy. If you like Amesoeurs or Lantlôs don't miss FEATHERS!
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Il ritorno degli ARCTURUS: una delle band più influenzalli della scena norvegese
cd digipack
Following their early EPs "My Angel" (1991) and "Constellation" (1994), ARCTURUS finally released their debut album "Aspera Hiems Symfonia" in 1996. The Norwegians derived their name from the brightest star of the Northern hemisphere and were obviously influenced by the massively expanding black metal scene of their homeland. Already featuring such well-known protagonists as ULVER's Garm and MAYHEM's Hellhammer, the line-up on "Aspera Hiems Symfonia" saw Samoth replaced by excellent guitarist Carl August Tidemann and outstanding ULVER bass player Hugh "Skoll" Mingay also joining the band. Despite their audible black roots, ARCTURUS clearly begged to differ by daring to experiment and adding an avant-garde twist with strange sonorous vocals complementing those piercing shrieks, Sverd's cinematic keyboards, the technical guitar solos, and more elements that to this day mark the band from Oslo as progressive innovators.
It is never easy to follow up with another album, especially considering the impact made by the complex wild flight of musical fantasy of "La Masquerade Infernale". ARCTURUS elegantly solved this conundrum by releasing the comparatively more straightforward third full-length, "The Sham Mirrors" in 2002. This does not mean that the Norwegians had lost their appetite for experiments. The vocals by Garm (ULVER) are more soaring and wide-ranging than ever on this release, while main man Steinar "Sverd" Johnsen keeps adding classic prog rock excursions to his repertoire. Yet, the guitars are more often set to a more conventional metal mode on "The Sham Mirrors". Still complex, still avant-garde, ARCTURUS clearly consolidated their compositions on "The Sham Mirrors" and while still using many sonic elements, those rather serve each individual song than try to stick out.
Having grown out of the Norwegian Death Metal band MORTEM, ARCTURUS emerged under the irresistible influence of Oslo's creatively bursting and fast rising underground black metal scene officially with the two-track 7" "My Angel" (1991). With then-guitarist and formidable keyboard player Sverd and MAYHEM drum-beast Hellhammer at its core, vocals were first contributed by Marius Vold, who also sang on the legendary THORNS demo "The Thule Tape". While still very much influenced by death metal, the addition of doom-laden slowness and eerie keyboards already pointed into a far blacker cosmos. On the four tracks of the original 1994 "Constellation" EP, ULVER's Garm had taken over the vocal duties and Samoth from EMPEROR had joined the band on guitar. Yet, ARCTURUS already went off the (in reality quite wide-ranged) black metal norms mainly due to Sverd's keyboard arrangements that were pre-shadowing the trademark theatrical or circus-like style the Norwegians adopted on their following albums.
On their sophomore full-length "La Masquerade Infernale" (1997), ARCTURUS took their musical experimenting three ambitious steps further. The Norwegians succeeded in wedding a devilish concept loosely based on the characters of Faust and Mephistopheles with an eclectic range of surreal sound elements into an album that is rightfully considered a prime example of what later came to be known as avant-garde metal. From quoting Edgar Allan Poe in operatic paraphrases by frontman Garm (ULVER) or the additional high notes from the unmistakable I.C.S. Vortex (BORKNAGAR) via the spaced-out electronic samples, classical instrumentation, and an even increased use of psychedelic guitar riffage alongside more "traditional" black and death metal elements. Brilliant guitarist Knut Magne Valle replaced Carl August Tideman, which brought stability to this position of the band's line-up. ARCTURUS aimed dangerously high with "La Masquerade Infernale" – but remarkably pulled off the extremely difficult feat of forging such widely differing elements into a wildly fascinating, over the top listening experience that has stood the test of time and surely deserves to be labelled a "masterpiece".
With "Disguised Masters" released in 1999, ARCTURUS delivered a striking and for some even provocative afterthought to their previous works. The WHEN intro 'White Tie Black Noise' was followed by the new track 'Deception Genesis' and a re-recording of the classic 'Du Nordavind' before the Norwegians launched into an adventurous re-visiting of six "La Masquerade Infernale" tracks that got unapologetically treated with EBM, trip-hop, rap, ambient, and other musical means. Drawing up fresh angles onto their music, the re-imagined songs revealed the wide open mind of ARCTURUS.
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Edizione statbdard in digipack / digipack edition
Gli Empyrium ritornano con un nuovo album dopo dodici anni di silenzio alternato a poche comparse (compilation, live album ecc)
Questa versione è un hardcover book di 48 pagine in 777 copie
Sarà disponibile anche in normale digipack a prezzo standard (per queste non serve preordine)
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2014 CD Digipak re-issue.
Includes bonus track "Heimwärts (Live In Bochum 2012)" and extended booklet.
The album is parted into three chapters:
Heidestimmung (track 1-6)
Waldpoesie (track 7)
Wassergeister (track 8-12)
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This MCD (mini-album) will be release by Hammer Of Damnation, in a limited edition of 500-copies,
of which 300 will be distributed in Latin America.
The remaining 200 copies will be distributed worldwide by Repulsive Echo.
Standard jewel case with clear tray and additional cardboard slipcase.
Includes 4-panel inlay booklet with artwork, lyrics, and credits.
This E.P. is dedicated in eternal memory of Baron Blood (Necromantia).
Trooper of the Black Arts (RIP).
Media Condition: MINT
Sleeve Condition: Near Mint (NM or M-)
White1 marks the fourth missive from the darkest regions of Sunn O)))’s distorted, drony netherworld. Greg Anderson and Stephen O’Malley’s newest long player follows a year after the excellent 3: Flight of the Behemoth, a record that broadened their sonic palette with contributions from Japanese noise guru Merzbow.
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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.
Limited to 2000 copies. This version include a second CD of live recordings.
'Solstitium Fulminate' Live at Roskilde 0705
Deus Salutis Meæ (“God of my Salvation”) is the truly mesmeric new emission from BLUT AUS NORD, the great Black Metal innovator renowned for disdain toward convention and a murderous relationship with boundaries.
Using frightening alchemy and predatory cruelty, BLUT AUS NORD fuses each distinct era of its 23 year existence with innovative readings of cavernous, arcane Death Metal, the occult excesses of outsider Industrial and the abject hauntings of psychotropic Doom.
Digipack cd
Comes with quite a few scratches on disc surface VG-
pre owned copy
comes with cracked tray (digi is VG-)
Disc is NM
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
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