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One of the earliest extreme German Metal bands: NECRONOMICON's earliest works:

NECRONOMICON – The Demos
 
Demo 1 Total Rejection (1985)
Demo 2 Blind Destruction (1985)
2 tracks from the Break Out compilation album 1986.

Extensive liner notes from Steven Willems with founding member Freddy (guitars and vocals).
Restored, remastered by Patrick Engel at Temple of Disharmony (Vio Lence, Sodom, Destruction)

Cult Dutch thrash metal from the late 80’s. Complete discography on cd featuring:
Liquidation demo 1988, Sandgrains Ep 1990, Live at Geronimo Rotterdam (restored / remastered by Robbie Woning (Dead Head). The demo and ep were recorded at Franky's Recording Kitchen with Berthus Westerhuys (God Dethroned, Altar, Severe Torture ). The booklet contains old pictures, flyers and extensive liner notes from Steven Willems (Rock Tribune / Voices from the Darkside). Brain Implosion featured members of Abacinate, Remote Control, Out of the System and Radiathor. In total the album contains 15 tracks! Buy cd

Reissue of Azarath's third full-length studio album from 2006. Remastered at Satanic Audio (Behemoth, Pestilence, Malevolent Creation).

Azarath needs no introduction to the connoisseurs of sonic terror. The band crept from the shadows over two decades ago and is often described as a demonic mutation of Krisiun, Behemoth and Immolation. "Dibaolic Impious Evil" was recorded by co-founder/drummer Inferno (of Behemoth fame), guitarists Bart (Damnation, Armagedon) & Thrufel, and vocalist/bassist Bruno.

When merited veterans of Norwegian Death/Black Metal conspire to breathe life into a new entity, you know you are in for a real treat.

ULVEHUNGER`s Retaliation, the outcome of a joint effort by L.J. Balvaz (BALVAZ/CADAVER/DISGUSTING) and K.B. Fletcher (DISGUSTING) together with none other than legendary Frost (SATYRICON/1349) and Anders Odden (CADAVER/ORDER/SATYRICON live) has Norwegian Death/Black Metal written all over it.

Tracks like “Desecrator”, “Consumed By Hate” or “Rise From The Shadows” convince with memorable riffs that are razor-sharp and remorselessly attacking yet melodious and melancholic at the same time. Pushed ahead by Frost`s unmistakable drumming and L.J. Balvaz`scornful sermons Retaliation is a dynamic, ravenous beast of an album.

ULVEHUNGER, despite being steeped in the tradition of classic outputs by compatriots CARPATHIAN FOREST, DARKTHRONE or GORGOROTH deliver without being a carbon-copy of said bands. ULVEHUNGER managed to create a worthy addition to the endless list of masterpieces from Norway no adherent of the genre can afford to miss out on.

MEFITIS is a dark metal endeavor dedicated to venturing the shadowy depths and desolate expanses of musical expression. Formed by Pendath and Vatha in 2007, Mefitis would from day one embody a metallic maelstrom intruding on the defined boundaries of extreme music. After some fallow years, the duo emerged to realize their dark metal vision with the 2019 full length Emberdawn. This record put forth their signature style of boundless songwriting across black and death metal, telling parables of degradation and savagery in both lyrics and the very music itself. The kindling now sparked, Mefitis returned in 2021 with their follow up in Offscourings. Here they would expand further on the possibilities of dark metal, exploring gloomier climes and thornier guitar arrangements. In addition, the band solidified a conceptual framework for the music to occupy, known as Skoria. In this parallel world out of time, the music, themes, and imagery could exist as ideas unto themselves rather than mere simulacra.

And so, Mefitis brings you their newest work: a duology in grey titled The Skorian // The Greyleer. Initially conceived as an experiment for analog tape, the new record is informed by the constraints and particular character of that medium. Every piece of sound you will hear was initially tracked to tape and then digitized and mixed by Mefitis. The dual title is indicative of the two halves, which were recorded in separate time spans and studio locations. However, The Skorian and The Greyleer are reflections of each other, and can be appreciated both in parts and in whole. Where past works looked outward to an ashen world, this new release contemplates its own crumbling edifice. It calls into question the very notion of one’s ‘self’ as an entity in thrall to its master. Witness now this loathing gallery, and join the grey.

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Almost four years after the acclaimed Vsesvit, Ukrainian one-man atmospheric black metal band Severoth is back with a new studio album. Multi-instrumentalist Illia Rafalskyi took some time to gather his thoughts and introduce his latest work as follows.

“Originally, By the Way of Light was intended as the spiritual successor for Vsesvit. I started working right after Vsesvit was finished, I wanted to create something powerful, energetic but yet light and bright. Something which will inspire people to be better versions of themselves. And to remember that there is always hope.

Music was mostly composed and recorded at my home studio in Dnipro, Ukraine. Actively crafted from 2021 up until 23th february of 2022. And intended to be released somewhere in 2022. But on the 24th of February my family and I woke up at 4 am from the sounds of distant explosions… That is when the Russian invasive full-scale war against Ukraine started. And our lives changed forever… 

For a full year since then I haven’t created a single note for this album and my mind was far from music, with exception of the second song, “Sons Of Steel Will”, for which I wrote lyrics in September 2022, inspired by the events of that period.

Later in 2023, after more than a year of ongoing war we moved to a safer place and I was able to finish the album. So, I’ve spent around half a year working and re-working the material. In the summer 2023 drums and missing vocals were recorded. Music and lyrics I wrote myself. Lyrics are in Ukrainian, but translations in English are featured in the booklet. The cover art and all inner illustrations were done by my wife Julia (UD).

I’m glad I have had the opportunity to finally finish this album and share it with the world.”

"North" is a special chapter for Sorcier Des Glaces. Having been composed and partially recorded at the same time as "Snowland MMXII" and "Ritual of the End", this chapter was experimented with a much more powerful and cleaner production.

Some moments of very fast blast beats, others calmer and more atmospheric, North is like a journey beyond the black glaciers, on a northern restless sea filled with human souls that have been banished from this world long ago.

The song "North" was written in 1995, and was originally intended for the former band Moonlyght, of which both members of Sorcier Des Glaces were members.

"Monuments Anciens" is a collection of exclusive tracks along with instrumental demo recordings from Sorcier Des Glaces. Some of them were recorded back in 2001 on an old tape-recorder, which later versions of these songs ended-up on the third Sorcier Des Glaces album "The Puressence of Primitive Forests".
It also features exclusive tracks that were intentionally recorded with raw production in 2010/2011.

"Monuments Anciens" offers some of the rawest and very primitive Sorcier Des Glaces material, always picturing the black, cold & evil world SDG is known for".

Ritual of the End" is the fifth conjuring from Sorcier Des Glaces. It represents the annihilation of the human race, through seven blackened incantations.
The sound of SDG evolved a lot on that album, getting heavier, faster and darker, but always retaining a strong melodic core.
Sorcier Des Glaces delivers again their Cold Primitive Metal sound straight from the northern forests of Québec. Feel the darkness that penetrates you.

With “For Those Who Stay”, the cursed phalanx is back with its wildest work to date!
11 new uncompromising titles to continue the trilogy, started on Osmose Productions, with “The Veil Of Darkness” (2019) and “Traditio Satanae” (2021). Sharp guitars, thumping drums, sense of melody, Gorgon continues to impose its vision of Black Metal which started in 1991.
The Scriptures talk about the 7 deadly sins, the 7-headed beast of the Apocalypse, they will soon talk about the band's 7th album.

CD jewelcase with 8 page booklet 145g art paper, sealed.