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Gatefold sleeve with gold pantone overprint and A3 poster

Eight years after the acclaimed Slow Motion Death Sequence, Norwegian experimental visionaries Manes return with To Burn Is To Shine, their sixth full-length album and the beginning of a new chapter in a career defined by fearless artistic evolution. Since their inception in Trondheim in 1992, Manes have consistently refused to remain confined within stylistic boundaries. Emerging from the early Norwegian black metal underground with the cult debut Under Ein Blodraud Maane, the band soon embarked on a remarkable transformation that culminated in the landmark Vilosophe, an album that would become one of the defining statements of avant-garde metal. Throughout the following decades, Manes have continued to blur the lines between metal, dark electronica, alternative rock, trip-hop and experimental music, developing a sound that remains unmistakably their own.

To Burn Is To Shine also features contributions from several distinguished guests, including Ana Carolina Skaret (Mourning Sun), Eskil Blix (Djevel, Vemod), Marita Hellem (Enevelde), Rune Folgerø (Atrox, Drontheim) and Tom Christian Engelsøy (Drontheim), while Vegar Larsen (Whoredom Rife) performs drums on two tracks. The striking visual identity of the album has been created by New York-based designer Michael Houtz, whose handcrafted artwork extends across the physical editions and accompanying merchandise.

Eight years after the acclaimed Slow Motion Death Sequence, Norwegian experimental visionaries Manes return with To Burn Is To Shine, their sixth full-length album and the beginning of a new chapter in a career defined by fearless artistic evolution. Since their inception in Trondheim in 1992, Manes have consistently refused to remain confined within stylistic boundaries. Emerging from the early Norwegian black metal underground with the cult debut Under Ein Blodraud Maane, the band soon embarked on a remarkable transformation that culminated in the landmark Vilosophe, an album that would become one of the defining statements of avant-garde metal. Throughout the following decades, Manes have continued to blur the lines between metal, dark electronica, alternative rock, trip-hop and experimental music, developing a sound that remains unmistakably their own.

To Burn Is To Shine also features contributions from several distinguished guests, including Ana Carolina Skaret (Mourning Sun), Eskil Blix (Djevel, Vemod), Marita Hellem (Enevelde), Rune Folgerø (Atrox, Drontheim) and Tom Christian Engelsøy (Drontheim), while Vegar Larsen (Whoredom Rife) performs drums on two tracks. The striking visual identity of the album has been created by New York-based designer Michael Houtz, whose handcrafted artwork extends across the physical editions and accompanying merchandise.

Rooted in a sombre, tragic and epic expression of Doom-infused Melodic Black Metal, “Cursed Songs from the Garden of Twilight” carries a style hard to link to other specific bands. THE SCARS IN PNEUMA (brought forth by Lorenzo Marchello, ex-Kolony Records) blends stunning melodies and dramatic atmospheres, interweaving them within structures balanced between slow/fast-paced rhythms and haunting interludes, resulting in a continous unfolding of compositional details. Cavernous growling vocals float above the instrumental flow, enhancing the stream of emotions in intensity.

Rooted in atmospheric black metal and post-depressive black metal, “A Caress of Autumn for All the Lost” refuses to remain confined within genre boundaries. Balzarini continuously shifts between textures and dynamics, allowing songs to unfold through subtle transformations rather than predictable contrasts. Instead of relying on the conventional loud-quiet formula, each composition develops organically, revealing unexpected turns while maintaining a remarkable sense of cohesion. Throughout the album, delicate melodic brushstrokes occasionally recall the melancholic elegance of fellow Italian visionaries Novembre, enriching an already expansive emotional palette.

The result is a work enveloped in an autumnal melancholy that permeates every note. Its atmosphere is fragile yet piercing, intimate yet expansive, balancing moments of despair with glimpses of fragile beauty. Every transition feels purposeful, every melody carefully placed, allowing the album to flow naturally from beginning to end without sacrificing intensity or emotional depth.

After three years and Ten Thousand Hells… SPIRIT POSSESSION unleash their third Full Length album Cathedral Speech to be released on Oct 2.
Seven attacking labyrinths of far venturing Black Heavy Metal, with all spires pointed down.
Where 2023’s Of the Sign… held a knifelike gaze into more erratic, adventurous hymns, Cathedral Speech sees SPIRIT POSSESSION awaken their most piercing, deranged, and narratively epic form yet. Spiraling guitar storms and explosive drum batterings channel first wave Black/Death assaults in the same breath as expansive ‘70s composition.
With Four steps into madness followed by a side long suite - These are vicious electric chants as towering as they are blasphemous.
 
Featuring S. Peacock (Black Curse / Ulthar / Mastery) on Strings and Vocals, and A. Spungin (Ormus) on Drums and Handmade Synthesizers.Recorded in the depths of the S•P Dungeon / and studio mixed at The New Menegroth, The Thousand Caves. Artwork by Luciana Lupe Vasconselos.

VERSIONE IN ITALIANO, FANZINE + split CD ROTTING CHRIST - MONUMENTUM   +  SHINING "Submit to self destruction" CD

SULPHUR FANZINE #4 packed with exclusive poly bag and sticker!
 After one year from the previous one, Sulphur #4 is here!
Once again, around 150 pages of articles and interviews and two covers for two different stories!
The first will be a big special about Obscure Plasma/Avantgarde/Wounded Love and the legendary Soundcave shop in Milan; the second one a big interview with the one and only Niklas Kvarforth (Shining) and its label The Sinister Initiative.
Then, the usual endless flow of articles and interviews featuring Witchcraft (FIN), an article about Icelandic Black Metal, Uada, Iskandr, Fluisteraars, Mortem, Mork, Galvanist, Mactätus Darkenhold and many, many more!
As usual there will be a bundle edition featuring two first-time cd reissues: Shining demo “Submit To Selfdestruction” and Rotting Christ/Monumentum both on CD minimax (transparent effect)!

VERSIONE IN ITALIANO, FANZINE CON COPERTINA "SHINING" +  CD SHINING "Submit to Self Destruction"

SULPHUR FANZINE #4 packed with exclusive poly bag and sticker!
 After one year from the previous one, Sulphur #4 is here!
Once again, around 150 pages of articles and interviews and two covers for two different stories!
The first will be a big special about Obscure Plasma/Avantgarde/Wounded Love and the legendary Soundcave shop in Milan; the second one a big interview with the one and only Niklas Kvarforth (Shining) and its label The Sinister Initiative.
Then, the usual endless flow of articles and interviews featuring Witchcraft (FIN), an article about Icelandic Black Metal, Uada, Iskandr, Fluisteraars, Mortem, Mork, Galvanist, Mactätus Darkenhold and many, many more!
As usual there will be a bundle edition featuring two first-time cd reissues: Shining demo “Submit To Selfdestruction” and Rotting Christ/Monumentum both on CD minimax (transparent effect)!

ITALIAN WRITTEN EDITION (english one will come later):   FANZINE + split CD ROTTING CHRIST - MONUMENTUM

SULPHUR FANZINE #4 packed with exclusive poly bag and sticker!
 After one year from the previous one, Sulphur #4 is here!
Once again, around 150 pages of articles and interviews and two covers for two different stories!
The first will be a big special about Obscure Plasma/Avantgarde/Wounded Love and the legendary Soundcave shop in Milan; the second one a big interview with the one and only Niklas Kvarforth (Shining) and its label The Sinister Initiative.
Then, the usual endless flow of articles and interviews featuring Witchcraft (FIN), an article about Icelandic Black Metal, Uada, Iskandr, Fluisteraars, Mortem, Mork, Galvanist, Mactätus Darkenhold and many, many more!
As usual there will be a bundle edition featuring two first-time cd reissues: Shining demo “Submit To Selfdestruction” and Rotting Christ/Monumentum both on CD minimax (transparent effect)!

ITALIAN WRITTEN EDITION , MAG ONLY  (english written edition will come later)

SULPHUR FANZINE #4 packed with exclusive poly bag and sticker!
 After one year from the previous one, Sulphur #4 is here!
Once again, around 150 pages of articles and interviews and two covers for two different stories!
The first will be a big special about Obscure Plasma/Avantgarde/Wounded Love and the legendary Soundcave shop in Milan; the second one a big interview with the one and only Niklas Kvarforth (Shining) and its label The Sinister Initiative.
Then, the usual endless flow of articles and interviews featuring Witchcraft (FIN), an article about Icelandic Black Metal, Uada, Iskandr, Fluisteraars, Mortem, Mork, Galvanist, Mactätus Darkenhold and many, many more!
As usual there will be a bundle edition featuring two first-time cd reissues: Shining demo “Submit To Selfdestruction” and Rotting Christ/Monumentum both on CD minimax (transparent effect)!

The Long-Awaited 4th Chapter of Despair from Finland’s DSBM Masters MORTUALIA!!!

Emerging once again from the endless darkness of Finland, MORTUALIA returns with its haunting fourth full-length album, “Cold in the Earth.” Spearheaded by the enigmatic Shatraug, the revered mastermind behind Horna and Sargeist, MORTUALIA continues its descent into the abyss with a work steeped in sorrow, isolation, and hypnotic melancholy. Following the acclaimed “Wild, Wild Misery,” this newest offering further refines the band’s signature fusion of depressive black metal and mournful doom into a cold, emotionally devastating experience.

Across seven desolate hymns, including the crushing title track “Cold in the Earth,” the somber passages of “Remembrance I & II,” and the bleakly mesmerizing “Winter’s Due,” MORTUALIA conjures an atmosphere of hopelessness and spiritual ruin unlike few others in the genre. Shatraug’s masterful songwriting once again balances raw black metal aggression with slow-burning funeral dirges, weaving memorable melodies and sorrow-drenched hooks into every shadowed corner of the album.

Dark, introspective, and utterly consuming, “Cold in the Earth” stands as another towering achievement in MORTUALIA’s discography - a bleak monument to misery forged by one of black metal’s most distinctive and enduring creative forces.