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Everything created under the name ARCKANUM is an extension of Shamaatae's Thursian spiritual practice and artistic vision. The music is conceived not simply as artistic expression, but as an act of magical will, shaped to evoke specific inner states, esoteric ideas, and atmospheres without compromise or conformity.
From its beginning, ARCKANUM has followed the Left-Hand Path: the way of the outsider, the vargar, standing beyond imposed order and conventional morality. Resistance, questioning, and individual will have always remained fundamental to both Shamaatae's spiritual Work and his approach to art.
The forthcoming album carries this principle further as a complete magical working. Music, lyrics, sound, and visual form have been developed as interconnected parts of the same ritual expression, shaped through intent and devotion within Shamaatae's Thursatru Workings.
Written in Old Swedish (fornsvenska), the lyrics draw upon Old Norse and Swedish poetic traditions while incorporating elements of Swedish svartkonst. They function as mythic charms and narrative incantations, invoking the Thursian current.
Musically, the new material represents a fusion of ARCKANUM's older foundations with Shamaatae's present approach to composition. The new album Beswærilsin cuts deep with a feral, unpolished production, raw with aggression and stripped of unnecessary ornament. Its sound moves between the freezing storms of Niflheimr and the relentless, blazing fury of Múspellsheimr, at once cold and searing, primitive and forceful, carrying the unmistakable spirit of ARCKANUM into a harsher and more dynamic form.
Originally released in 1995, The Gospel of Inhumanity stands as the landmark debut album of Blood Axis and one of the most distinctive recordings of the neofolk and martial industrial underground. Combining solemn atmospheres, powerful orchestration, and historical themes, the album established a unique artistic identity that continues to resonate decades later.
Presented here in a newly remastered edition, this definitive reissue delivers the album with enhanced audio quality and meticulously restored artwork.
Housed in a deluxe gatefold featuring premium printing and exceptional production standards, this edition offers the ultimate presentation of a true genre classic.
180g LP, 7mm spine printed on 350gsm cardstock GATEFOLD jacket with SILVER FLOOD, SILVER PANTONE, UV SPOT and thick A2 POSTER.
VELNIAS are proud to present their fourth studio album – Substrate Haruspex. Recorded in 2024 between Denver (World Famous Studios) and Nederland (Tvirtove) Colorado, this latest offering presents a dense and atmospheric sonic journey into the unraveling and reconstruction of the self beneath the vastness of the infinitely unfolding Macrocosm.
The eight monumental songs contained within serve as invocations to herald the expulsion of delusion, dissolution of the confines, splintering of the construct, and kindling of the forsaken fire amidst the shadow of Nihil ascendant.
Mixed by Stephen Parker (MAESTUS/PILLORIAN/PARAPHILIA) and mastered by Greg Chandler (ESOTERIC), Substrate Haruspex showcases VELNIAS at peak form as we are borne to witness the continued evolution of their unique amalgam of iconoclastic folk doom.
Tracklist:
VELNIAS are proud to present their fourth studio album – Substrate Haruspex. Recorded in 2024 between Denver (World Famous Studios) and Nederland (Tvirtove) Colorado, this latest offering presents a dense and atmospheric sonic journey into the unraveling and reconstruction of the self beneath the vastness of the infinitely unfolding Macrocosm.
The eight monumental songs contained within serve as invocations to herald the expulsion of delusion, dissolution of the confines, splintering of the construct, and kindling of the forsaken fire amidst the shadow of Nihil ascendant.
Mixed by Stephen Parker (MAESTUS/PILLORIAN/PARAPHILIA) and mastered by Greg Chandler (ESOTERIC), Substrate Haruspex showcases VELNIAS at peak form as we are borne to witness the continued evolution of their unique amalgam of iconoclastic folk doom.
Tracklist:
- Celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Swedish melodic black metal classic Welcome My Last Chapter.
- Widely regarded as one of the defining albums of Swedish melodic black metal.
- Deluxe Double Edition featuring the complete album plus previously unreleased recordings from 1992-1995, including demos, studio sessions, and a rare 1994 live recording.
- A comprehensive archival release documenting the band's early evolution.
- Available on 2CD, Double LP, and Double Cassette (2MC).
- Celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Swedish melodic black metal classic Welcome My Last Chapter.
- Widely regarded as one of the defining albums of Swedish melodic black metal.
- Deluxe Double Edition featuring the complete album plus previously unreleased recordings from 1992-1995, including demos, studio sessions, and a rare 1994 live recording.
- A comprehensive archival release documenting the band's early evolution.
- Available on 2CD, Double LP, and Double Cassette (2MC).
- Celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Swedish melodic black metal classic Welcome My Last Chapter.
- Widely regarded as one of the defining albums of Swedish melodic black metal.
- Deluxe Double Edition featuring the complete album plus previously unreleased recordings from 1992-1995, including demos, studio sessions, and a rare 1994 live recording.
- A comprehensive archival release documenting the band's early evolution.
- Available on 2CD, Double LP, and Double Cassette (2MC).
- Celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Swedish melodic black metal classic Welcome My Last Chapter.
- Widely regarded as one of the defining albums of Swedish melodic black metal.
- Deluxe Double Edition featuring the complete album plus previously unreleased recordings from 1992-1995, including demos, studio sessions, and a rare 1994 live recording.
- A comprehensive archival release documenting the band's early evolution.
- Available on 2CD, Double LP, and Double Cassette (2MC).
The solo album by Heike Langhans, heavenly voice for the likes of Draconian, Ison, Sojourner, Light Field Reverie and Remina!
After more than a decade of unfinished demos and other obligations, helped out by the skill of Mike Lamb Heike, 'Peace by Proxy' was released May 1, 2026 digitally but finds now a physical release via Avantgarde Mus
The solo album by Heike Langhans, heavenly voice for the likes of Draconian, Ison, Sojourner, Light Field Reverie and Remina!
After more than a decade of unfinished demos and other obligations, helped out by the skill of Mike Lamb Heike, 'Peace by Proxy' was released May 1, 2026 digitally but finds now a physical release via Avantgarde Mus
Progressive death metal outfit Rhynn are set to release their debut full-length King of Nothing via Unorthodox Emanations, the death metal division of Avantgarde Music.
Founded by multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Abakar Ibragimov, Rhynn emerged in 2019, initially inspired by the worlds of science fiction and fantasy. Born in Dagestan in 1990, Ibragimov grew up against the backdrop of the Chechen wars, finding refuge in music and literature from an early age. While those original inspirations remain part of Rhynn's identity, King of Nothing is ultimately rooted in much more immediate and personal experiences.
Written over several years, the album reflects on displacement, uncertainty, social decay, disillusionment and fatherhood. Songs such as "The Graves Are Not Yet Full", "Nostos", "Oblivion" and "Apotheosis" draw from different aspects of Ibragimov's experience in the years surrounding his departure from his native country Russia, while "Innocence" offers a more intimate perspective, written about the birth of his son in Armenia in 2023.
Musically, Rhynn look primarily towards the foundations of death and heavy metal rather than contemporary metal production. Progressive structures and intricate arrangements are combined with a deliberately organic approach: the band sought to make King of Nothing sound as live as possible, avoiding excessive production and preserving the physical character of the performances. The guitar solos were mixed with classic King Diamond records as a reference, while fretless bass by Linus Klausenitzer became an unexpected but defining element of the album.
Winter lake (blue, crystal and black splatter) 12" double vinyl (33 rpm) in gatefold.
Limited to 300 copies worldwide!
THY CATAFALQUE is the solo-helmed Hungarian avant-garde metal project of Tamás Kátai, running since 1998 and now a two-time Fonogram (Hungarian Grammy) winner. What began as a studio-only outlet has grown, over the past few years, into a full international touring act with festival slots across Europe and Latin America.
'XIII: Sárga erdo' is THY CATAFALQUE's thirteenth album, and unlike its predecessors it carries no single narrative thread: the twelve tracks move instead through what plays like a wandering across old ground, touching on loss, distance, memory and disappearance without ever settling on one story. The record marks a real shift in how it's built: this is the first time THY CATAFALQUE has used a live drummer rather than programmed rhythm, and while the cast is enormous - thirty-four musicians plus a twenty-voice male choir - the folk and classical textures that once flooded every corner of a song (piano, strings, brass, reed, sitar, kamancheh, zither) are used here with real discipline, brought in only when a track calls for them. The result sits closer to the bone than the maximalism of the last record, heavier in restraint than in volume, and it still finds room for a fictitious folk song built for a vanished people on the Volga, an incineration metaphor turned into the album's heaviest cut, and an opener that reads like a farewell letter.
Gábor Vári returns behind the desk for a second record running, keeping the production language consistent even as the arrangements pull back.