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For fans of Norwegian Black Metal and melodic Black Metal.
For fans of SETHERIAL, MARDUK, DARK FUNERAL, NECROPHOBIC.

HELVITNIR with their first album deliver classic but yet melodic black metal with a pounding production sound

One of South America's shortest-lived yet undeniably potent cults, Peru's LEVIFER formed in 1998 and disbanded in 2004, leaving behind but a demo and a split with a then-young GOAT SEMEN. Nevertheless, the sulfurous spirit of those nine primary tracks remains timeless to this day, and it's with great honor that WEREWOLF compiles LEVIFER's entire recorded work on one convenient format.

LEVIFER released their lone demo, Tribute to the Supreme Beast, in 2000. For all intents and purposes, though, that demo could've been released in 1992, exhibiting a bestial death metal sound comparable to early Mystifier, Naked Whipper, Finland's Belial, Germany's Blood, and Brazil's Impurity. Hulking and at times clanging and atonal but always with utterly gutted savagery, LEVIFER's first seven songs retain a remarkable sense of ritualistic flow. In 2003, LEVIFER released a two-song split 7" with GOAT SEMEN. Here, their bestiality took on a much-more-blackened aspect, and cavernous atmosphere was compounded tenfold. Sharper songwriting-wise and tighter in execution, these two songs teased at how mesmerizingly awesome LEVIFER could've become had they continued. A couple tracks from that very same session were released as bonus tracks on a picture-disc reissue of the demo in 2006, and they're now collected here on Southern Bestial Storms, bringing together everything mainman Levifer and crew recorded. From the past come the Southern Bestial Storms!

Comes in a 6-panel digipack. Released by Lonely Demon Records.

The second album from a prayer for the worst finds Herr B (GODKILLER) continuing his exploration of uneasy, emaciated sounds in his insatiable quest to find musical expressions of anguish and final rest.

For fans of Darkwave, lo-fi synth pop, dark ambient, early Industrial, weird post-punk, skewed electronica, suicide music.

SIGNAL REX is proud to present a brand-new EP from Portugal's IRAE, Promiscuous Fire, on CD and cassette tape formats. By now, IRAE should require little introduction. Since the dawn of this cursed millennium, mainman Vulturius has prolifically pursued a singular vision of BLACK METAL that includes a vast discography. As such, IRAE have almost singlehandedly invigorated Portugal's black metal scene, particularly the rawer iteration of it. And since the band's blood pact with SIGNAL REX deepened in 2020 with the release of the landmark Lurking in the Depths LP that summer, five short-lengths followed in rapid succession as well as the full-length anniversary record Assim na Terra como no Inferno most recently.

Baltic Black Metal, for fans of Vreid, Windir, Burzum...

numbered digipak / 300 copies

VENTR hail from Portugal, the reigning hotbed of raw black metal. However, with their Numinous Negativity debut mini-album in 2020, the mysterious entity soundly proved their strident black metal was of a palatably professional constitution: fully formed, expertly executed, "orthodox" in the classic sense, and emitting a bewitching melodicism that hauntingly recalled the mid '90s.

Now VENTR unveil the full fathom of their powers with Ubique Diaboli Voluntas, their long-awaited first full-length. Released in conjunction with their live performance at this year's Howls of Winter fest, Ubique Diaboli Voluntas retains the noble foundation of its shorter-length predecessor - grim & ghastly intensity, haunting lead-lines, cobwebbed atmosphere - but the duo step up their songwriting to an even-higher plateau. Across the album's six-song / 42-minute duration,

Teitanblood returns to claim underground metal’s most lawless frontier. “From the Visceral Abyss” is an all-engulfing tide of unfettered, raging chaos – where black and death metal collapse into a maelstrom of destruction. Its force is neither random nor aimless but guided by an instinct sharpened over decades.

This is Teitanblood at their most unhinged, yet wholly assured in execution. Dissonance and precision collide in monstrous, writhing riffs, underpinned by percussive violence that shifts between merciless blasting and dirge-like weight. Layer upon layer of bile-drenched vocals coil through the cacophony, forging a suffocating atmosphere of grotesque grandeur.

As ever, the album is steeped in the restless spirit of the late Finnish artist Timo Ketola, who stood as both interpreter and architect of Teitanblood’s visual world. Ketola’s oracular visions provided the scripture from which these lyrics emerged – his legacy not merely preserved but carried forth beyond the grave. The tradition of transmuting sound into imagery continues, with Dávid Glomba filling the booklet’s pages with a dense tapestry of illustrations, sigils, and hand-scribed invocations.

With its tenth full-length album, Svartsyn delivers a work rooted in both its present vision and primordial past. “Vortex of the Destroyer” unfolds in two intertwined chapters: four new compositions alongside six resurrected relics from Chalice, the entity that would become Svartsyn in 1994.

The first half of “Vortex of the Destroyer” embodies a refined yet relentless approach, shaped by instinct and hindsight alike. From the ruin of Atlantis to the flames of Surtr and Fenrir, these songs channel Svartsyn’s pursuit of apocalyptic grandeur – a descent into the abyss.

The latter half harks back to the autumn of 1992, breathing new life into six compositions first forged under the Chalice banner. Conceived at the dawn of the second wave of Black Metal, these tracks honour the band’s origins. Re-recorded with present clarity, their essence remains untouched: wild, sinister, and unmistakably Ornias.