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23 years after their debut 'Sursum Luna', italian iconoclasts Funeral Oration releases a new album, a set of 6 lithanies for the twisted spirits
Occult / dark black metal sound ala italian way
Four panels digipak Cd + Booklet (12 pages)
Light Field Reverie was formed to traverse the haunted and ethereal sonic landscapes at the border between crushing heaviness and dreamlike beauty. Featuring Mike Lamb (Sojourner), Heike Langhans (Draconian), and Scotty Lodge (Sojourner).
Heike Langhans - Vocals, Synths
Mike Lamb - Guitars, Synths, Piano, Drums
Scotty Lodge - Bass
Three years after their fascinating debut, Suicide Forest is back with Reluctantly, a sophomore album which further develops their art. Taking their name from the Japanese Aokigahara forest, where many troubled
people travel to end their life, the one-man band from Tucson, Az., moves from classic depressive black metal coordinates and expands their sound palette. As a result, Reluctantly settles somewhere in between DSBM, atmospheric black metal and post-black/blackgaze.
The perfect company for restless souls, Reluctantly reminds of the eerie keyboard patterns of Burzum and the dilated atmospheres of contemporary US black metal pillars like Ash Borer, mixed with some unpredictable twists such as dissonant riffs and solos. Suicide Forest will please both those looking for furious up-tempos and the more introvert blacksters, looking for a sanctuary from the outside world.
Multi-instrumentalist and mastermind A.Kruger wrote Reluctantly in the second half of 2019, before the pandemic struck us all, but began tracking the album at his home studio in early 2020. About the lyrics, when asked what themes inform his work, he plainly replied: The whole album focuses
on the themes of resent and isolation, feelings that were only compounded considering the entirety of Reluctanlty was recorded during the covid-19 lockdown”.
Neige et Noirceur comes back with a surprising tribute dedicated to the great Jean-Sébastien Bach: 4 minor preludes and one invention. Five pieces of baroque dark ambient with a touch of métal noir québécois.
Ultimate ode to melancholy and sadness, these minor preludes go off the beaten track, to lead us into baroque landscapes, embrassing the solitude of the hermit by Bruegel the Elder.
For this unique project, Sion Daus (aka Spiritus) is as always, accompanied on vocals by his devilish accomplice Schimaera. But the heart of this ablum is marked by the arrival of Cynthia who performs with grandeur, organs and other keyboards.
Bach / preludium minor is a unique and vital album for all fan of darkambient black metal.
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.
first press misprint, missing one title on back cover
this one: https://www.discogs.com/Mesarthim-Isolate/release/10621232
extra limited 100 copies in black vinyl
Anyone with the slightest interest in darkwave music and the goth counterculture is familiar with Lycia. Born in Tempe, AZ, in 1988 from the creative mind of Mike VanPortfleet, Lycia is as seminal and influential as a band can get. Devoted to cold, somber and synthetic sounds, these pioneers of the ethereal are responsible for some of the most acclaimed underground albums of the ‘90s.
The current lineup of the band is John Fair, David Galas, Tara Vanflower and Mike VanPortfleet, who has been the only constant member since the band’s formation. Although only achieving minor cult success, the band is notable for being one of the groundbreaking groups in the darkwave and ethereal styles. Their 1995 album The Burning Circle And Then Dust "remains a high point of American dark rock" according to AllMusic, and 1996’s Cold has been cited as one of the genre’s best by Post-Punk.com and Alternative Press. Lycia's sound is characterized by rich soundscapes and layers of heavily effected guitars, dark atmospheric keyboards, heavy reverb drenched drum machines, VanPortfleet's somber raspy vocals and Vanflower's vivid melodic voice.
Avantgarde Music had the pleasure to bring the 1991 debut full-length Ionia to a vinyl edition for the first time in early 2021, and this brought along the chance to cooperate on new music. This turned out to be a rich studio EP, Casa Luna. We reached out to Mike VanPortfleet, who describes Casa Luna as a followup to 2018’s In Flickers, with a more varied approach, stylistically and thematically. “In Flickers and Casa Luna are Lycia’s purest releases. Originally planned as a split 7” with the song “A Quiet Way to Go”, as more songs were written they evolved to an EP”.
edition 200 copies
Anyone with the slightest interest in darkwave music and the goth counterculture is familiar with Lycia. Born in Tempe, AZ, in 1988 from the creative mind of Mike VanPortfleet, Lycia is as seminal and influential as a band can get. Devoted to cold, somber and synthetic sounds, these pioneers of the ethereal are responsible for some of the most acclaimed underground albums of the ‘90s.
The current lineup of the band is John Fair, David Galas, Tara Vanflower and Mike VanPortfleet, who has been the only constant member since the band’s formation. Although only achieving minor cult success, the band is notable for being one of the groundbreaking groups in the darkwave and ethereal styles. Their 1995 album The Burning Circle And Then Dust "remains a high point of American dark rock" according to AllMusic, and 1996’s Cold has been cited as one of the genre’s best by Post-Punk.com and Alternative Press. Lycia's sound is characterized by rich soundscapes and layers of heavily effected guitars, dark atmospheric keyboards, heavy reverb drenched drum machines, VanPortfleet's somber raspy vocals and Vanflower's vivid melodic voice.
Avantgarde Music had the pleasure to bring the 1991 debut full-length Ionia to a vinyl edition for the first time in early 2021, and this brought along the chance to cooperate on new music. This turned out to be a rich studio EP, Casa Luna. We reached out to Mike VanPortfleet, who describes Casa Luna as a followup to 2018’s In Flickers, with a more varied approach, stylistically and thematically. “In Flickers and Casa Luna are Lycia’s purest releases. Originally planned as a split 7” with the song “A Quiet Way to Go”, as more songs were written they evolved to an EP”.
Russian blackgaze duo Olhava is back with their new studio album. Frozen Blooom is the natural follow-up to self-titled Olhava (2019) and Ladoga (2020), and integrates some dronescapes the band experimented on Never Leave Me Alone (2020), the drone version of their debut.
Multi-instrumentalist Andrey Novozhilov and drummer Timur Yusupov describe their new journey with words of thoughtful contemplation: “When winter is just starting to fade and give some space to the first steps of spring… When life starts to reappear and the very early flowers peek through the thawing soil, a sudden drop of the temperature can leave them petrified and frozen back again, punished by the “Queen of Fields”. This statuesque dead beauty, being infinitely alive and dead at the same time is the main metaphor of this album. Frozen Bloom is about unfulfilled dreams. About how we sacrifice everything today for some abstract “tomorrow”, which may never come. But tomorrow and yesterday don’t exist – only this very moment of static contemplation is real”.
Frozen Bloom is Olhava’s fourth opus in three years, and here the duo took some different routes compositionally. Two of the four tracks are traditionally storm-like blackgaze passages, while the other two are leaning towards a more meditative drone experience. The album also features A. Lunn, who kindly agreed to record an electric guitar solo as well as acoustic parts and choral parts on “Frozen Bloom I”.
Frozen Bloom was recorded at Olhava home studios, as well as at the local rehearsal space. Mikhail Kurochkin took care of mixing and mastering.
This is a special offer, limited to 40 orders
For all ISON maniacs out there, a chance to collect in one only parcel (and save money) the three colors variants: cyan/white (effect "Aside/Bside), grey/black ("galaxy" effect) and solid White vinyl.
Please note this is a preorder, the record will be released in late June!
A digital download code for the full album will be provided upon request, for the bandcamp maniacs
This is a special offer meant for all of you who have missed the very first two Olhava albums and want to get all of them at once:
'Olahava' LP + 'Ladoga' DLP + 'Never leave me alone' LP + 'Frozen Bloom' DLP
and save an helluva money: the total cost of these 4 vinyls (when individually purchased) would be in fact 78.00€ plus shipping.
All LPs will be shipped in their colored vinyl editions
'Phase One' is a box set including ALL Mesarthim recordings so far, now released on cassette: it's a full colors box with lid, including 8 tapes / cassettes.
Alongside Mesarthim classic albums like 'Isolate' or 'Ghost Condensate' this compendium includes also single and eps that never had a physical release (i.e. "Spire" or "Presence").
This box set is strictly limited to a one-only press of 250 numbered units.
Third Ad Hominem album, so far the best , killer totalitarian black metal
1. Loading genocide
2. Climax of hatred
3. As I long for...
4. The upper art
5. Death to all
6. Join or perish
7. My loudest scream of hate
8. Achtung!
9. Crypt of fear (Mysticum cover)
Single LP, splatter vinyl
Please note: New copy but comes with a small seamsplit on the INNERSLEEVE
Please note: New copy but comes with a small damage on one corner of the cover
Color Vinyl
Drone edition of Olhava's "s/t" debut!
extra limited edition, one-only press
