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Blood was formed by Bernd Eisenstein, Taki, Geer and Radtke in March 1986 in Germany. They recorded 3 demos during this time. In 1989 they released their debut album Impulse To Destroy on the American cult label Wild Rags. In 1992 they signed a two album deal with German 1MF records, run by S.L. Coe (ex Angeldust vocalist). Their third full lengt album 'O Agios Pethane’ was recorded in Dust Music Studio (Assorted Heap, Torchure), during June 1993. The albums contains 20 tracks of excellent German death metal / grindcore. The 2023 re-issue by vic records contains a complete new booklet, designed by RaDesign (Varathron, Possessed) with liner notes and rare pictures.

Carved in Flesh was an American Death metal band formed in 1994 in Lima, Ohio. They released one demo and one full-length album in 1997. Their debut album ‘As Seen Through Tears’ is now finally re-issued. This rare death metal gem is much sought-after, eBay prices are around 150 $. Extensive liner notes by founding member and drummer / songwriter Josh Hemenway. Complete booklet remake with exclusive and rare pictures. The re-issue has one special bonus, a never before released, song. Remastered and restored by Achilleas Kalantzis (Possessed, Varathron, Vio-Lence).

Artbook with bonus CD

The colour of every FEN album points towards its lyrical and musical content. For the first time in their career, the East Anglian post-black metal trio has used the colour red on the cover artwork of their seventh full-length "Monuments to Absence". FEN describe the album as an expression of anger, hopelessness and despair – anger at the desperate futility of a human species hell-bent on self-destruction. This is reflected in the decidedly harsh and black sound of "Monuments to Absence", which is undoubtedly FEN's most extreme recording to date, even though there are still moments of atmospheric glory, spatial clean sections, heaving doom, and full-blown riffs, which augment the furious expression of rage. FEN took their name from the Fens of East Anglia when the trio formed in 2006. These desolate and bleak landscapes have left a deep mark in the post-black metal sound, which the band pioneered in the UK when the English scene revitalised in the wake of forerunners FOREFATHER with bands such as FEN, WINTERFYLLETH, and WODENSTHRONE coming to the fore. When FEN released their debut full-length "The Malediction Fields" (2009), the band made good on the huge promise of their previous EP "Ancient Sorrow" (2007) by delivering a first album that already combined the black metal tradition elegantly with a dedicated atmospheric twist and gentle experimentation beyond the perceived narrow confines of their genre. With each following full-length, from "Epoch" (2011), via "Dustwalker" (2012), "Carrion Skies" (2014), "Winter" (2017) to "The Dead Light" (2019), FEN have expanded both their musical range and following, while also perfecting their recognisable and unmistakable sound. "Monuments to Absence" marks FEN's welcome return to a dark and fierce sound.

The colour of every FEN album points towards its lyrical and musical content. For the first time in their career, the East Anglian post-black metal trio has used the colour red on the cover artwork of their seventh full-length "Monuments to Absence". FEN describe the album as an expression of anger, hopelessness and despair – anger at the desperate futility of a human species hell-bent on self-destruction. This is reflected in the decidedly harsh and black sound of "Monuments to Absence", which is undoubtedly FEN's most extreme recording to date, even though there are still moments of atmospheric glory, spatial clean sections, heaving doom, and full-blown riffs, which augment the furious expression of rage. FEN took their name from the Fens of East Anglia when the trio formed in 2006. These desolate and bleak landscapes have left a deep mark in the post-black metal sound, which the band pioneered in the UK when the English scene revitalised in the wake of forerunners FOREFATHER with bands such as FEN, WINTERFYLLETH, and WODENSTHRONE coming to the fore. When FEN released their debut full-length "The Malediction Fields" (2009), the band made good on the huge promise of their previous EP "Ancient Sorrow" (2007) by delivering a first album that already combined the black metal tradition elegantly with a dedicated atmospheric twist and gentle experimentation beyond the perceived narrow confines of their genre. With each following full-length, from "Epoch" (2011), via "Dustwalker" (2012), "Carrion Skies" (2014), "Winter" (2017) to "The Dead Light" (2019), FEN have expanded both their musical range and following, while also perfecting their recognisable and unmistakable sound. "Monuments to Absence" marks FEN's welcome return to a dark and fierce sound.

'Six Songs With the Devil', the savage 1994 demo from DESTROYER 666, remains to this day the most vicious blast of black metal to ever come from Australia.
Each track is a white-knuckled rip ride of volume and violence, and this recording set the tone for the career of one of metal's most infamous and uncompromising bands.
This true underground classic is available once again via the band's longtime home Season of Mist.

For fans of DESASTER, GOSPEL OF THE HORNS, AURA NOIR, NOCTURNAL GRAVES, BESTIAL MOCKERY, RAZOR OF OCCAM.
Cover illustration "Fohat" by Rosaleen Norton.

'Six Songs With the Devil', the savage 1994 demo from DESTROYER 666, remains to this day the most vicious blast of black metal to ever come from Australia.
Each track is a white-knuckled rip ride of volume and violence, and this recording set the tone for the career of one of metal's most infamous and uncompromising bands.
This true underground classic is available once again via the band's longtime home Season of Mist.

For fans of DESASTER, GOSPEL OF THE HORNS, AURA NOIR, NOCTURNAL GRAVES, BESTIAL MOCKERY, RAZOR OF OCCAM.
Cover illustration "Fohat" by Rosaleen Norton.

For their new album, bassist/vocalist Dylan Desmond and drummer/vocalist Jesse Shreibman exploded Bell Witch's bounds. Like 2017's lauded “Mirror Reaper”, “The Clandestine Gate” is a single 83-minute track -- a composition that pulses and breathes on a filmic timeframe. It constitutes the first chapter in a planned triptych of longform albums, collectively called “Future's Shadow.”

While traces of organ and synthesizer hovered over “Mirror Reaper” and Bell Witch's 2020 collaboration with Aerial Ruin, “Stygian Bough Volume 1”, “The Clandestine Gate” drew those instruments closer to the center of its compositions. The band reunited with their longtime producer Billy Anderson as they began negotiating these new compositional weights. On “The Clandestine Gate”, Bell Witch's twinned voices build off of the chantlike textures of previous records while steering toward more developed melodic lines, structured harmonies, and rhythmic death metal growls.

The immense gravity of a work like “The Clandestine Gate”, which features exclusive stunning cover art by Jordi Diaz Alama, allows ideas to simmer in a way that feels profoundly and somatically intuitive -- not just a philosophical exercise, but an embodied truth. By slowing down both their creative process and the tempo of the music itself, Bell Witch digs even deeper into their long-standing focus: the way life spills on inside its minuscule container, both eternal and fleeting, a chord that echoes without resolution.

For their new album, bassist/vocalist Dylan Desmond and drummer/vocalist Jesse Shreibman exploded Bell Witch's bounds. Like 2017's lauded “Mirror Reaper”, “The Clandestine Gate” is a single 83-minute track -- a composition that pulses and breathes on a filmic timeframe. It constitutes the first chapter in a planned triptych of longform albums, collectively called “Future's Shadow.”

While traces of organ and synthesizer hovered over “Mirror Reaper” and Bell Witch's 2020 collaboration with Aerial Ruin, “Stygian Bough Volume 1”, “The Clandestine Gate” drew those instruments closer to the center of its compositions. The band reunited with their longtime producer Billy Anderson as they began negotiating these new compositional weights. On “The Clandestine Gate”, Bell Witch's twinned voices build off of the chantlike textures of previous records while steering toward more developed melodic lines, structured harmonies, and rhythmic death metal growls.

The immense gravity of a work like “The Clandestine Gate”, which features exclusive stunning cover art by Jordi Diaz Alama, allows ideas to simmer in a way that feels profoundly and somatically intuitive -- not just a philosophical exercise, but an embodied truth. By slowing down both their creative process and the tempo of the music itself, Bell Witch digs even deeper into their long-standing focus: the way life spills on inside its minuscule container, both eternal and fleeting, a chord that echoes without resolution.

A special edition - double black vinyl with side D etched!
100 copies only

Double vinyl, trans orange, 3 sides recorded (side D is empty).
300 copies edition

This marvellous yet unusual chapter of Earth and Pillars sidereal journey is now finally getting a vinyl release and will remain carved in wax in time...
This is an extra limited release, almost a fan-club edition.
The die-cut sleeve makes it a must-have release for lovers of aesthetics too.
One only press of 200 copies!

Vampyroteuthis Infernalis is the last of its kind
The encounter with the creepiest of creatures
The descent into the abyssal void
Vampyroteuthis Infernalis is your most anchored fear
Your deepest unconscious trauma
Your scariest nightmare
The unknown

Creepy, oppressive black metal, built on a muffled, suffocating sound, distant horrifying screams and furious drumming, will helplessly drag you down into the most hostile place on earth: the abyss.

Vampyroteuthis Infernalis is a featureless creature dwelling in the darkest and deepest pits of this world, and their debut album will be released on CD and LP via Avantgarde Music on May 26th, 2023.