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With her sophomore album 'Wistful', multi-instrumentalist SYLVAINE is delving deeper into her characteristic ambient wall-of-sound landscapes that are painted by beautiful melodies, lingering guitar riffs, and atmospheres, which are all underlined by a solid groove.
The recordings for 'Wistful' were completed in renowned French Drudenhaus Studios in spring 2015. It was mixed and mastered by the same team as her first full-length during autumn and winter of 2015. The album features contributions by Stephen Shepard and Stéphane "Neige" Paut as session drummers as well as violinist Coralie Louarnika and cellist Thibault Guichard.

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Australian black metal band Ill Omen has been releasing some of the more intriguing material out there in recent years, with sprawling instrumentation that takes on a more mysterious and ritualistic feel. These elements have been expanded further than ever before on the newest full length ‘Æ.Thy.Rift’, which feels like it could be a funeral doom effort ran through a black metal filter. Each of the songs builds a thick atmosphere that feels like it’s going to pull you directly into the void, and it’s handled in such a way that uses the longer song lengths to its advantage rather than letting them feel as though they are dragged out.

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Oldschool-death metal in the vein of Autopsy or Massacre while adding some unique and irrestistible vibes to it.

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Psychopathology 1994-2016: Collection of the History

Eight full-length album from veteran Norwegian Black Metallers RAGNAROK with Marduk's bassist Devo behind the console.

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Pagan / Viking metal berserkers COLD NORTHERN VENGEANCE create kaleidoscopic landscapes of majesty and melancholy, storm and shelter. The vision of chieftain Heathen, “Maelstrom” picks up where 2008's cult classic “Domination and Servitude” left off: rolling, churning layers of mystifying, hypnotizing tones, all harnessed in a revelatory and Odinistic manner. But here, CNV digs deeper into their pagan roots, plumbing the dark, alluring depths for a resonance rarely found in American metal.

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Invisible landscape - the debut album - is a conceptual work, an imaginary soundtrack that traces the story created by 10 pictures by the Portuguese photographer, José Ramos. It's an experimental project that extends itself through innumerous musical styles: from Classical music to Post Rock, going through soundscapes, electronica, etc

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Hexvessel have been a long time in the making. For more than a decade, their frontman, Kvohst, has been dabbling in forms of avant-garde black metal. Boasting acts like Dodheimsgard and Code, Kvohst's very distinct vocals were what set him apart from many other vocalists. He had a unique way of delivering his lyrics, bending the pitch in his voice and experimenting with atmosphere. Contrasting with often fierce black metal, his vocals would stand out as pure, but unsettling. With the black metal element removed, and a lot more freedom, Kvohst and his band release some of their best work to date.

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First press in rough cardboard digipak + booklet / NEAR MINT

SKUGGSJÁ is the epic sound of Norway's Norse history as told through harder music by Ivar Bjørnson (ENSLAVED) and Einar Selvik (WARDRUNA). Written by Bjørnson and Selvik for the 200th anniversary of the Norwegian Constitution, SKUGGSJÁ tells the history of Norway to the present day by highlighting ideas, traditions and instruments of their Norse past. In a magnificent tapestry of metal instrumentation, a wide variety of Norway and Scandinavia’s oldest instruments, and poetry in Proto-Scandinavian, Norse and Norwegian, SKUGGSJÁ fuses past and present, both lyrically and musically, and reflects on themselves as a people and nation.