SORCIER DES GLACES
Sorcier des Glaces

"Sorcier Des Glaces' second offering to the mortal world was recorded just two years after the very first album, in August 1999. Nevertheless, the maturity of their sound and composition is perceptible. It's no longer a one-man band this time, involving Luc more extensively, who this time records all the drum parts and also participates in the elaboration of several keyboard parts. The infernal duo is officially up and running.

With its icy atmosphere and dark yet melodic compositions reflecting the northern forests of Quebec, "Moonrise in Total Darkness" defines a young band still in exploration mode. Certainly more raw in its aestheticism than the band's more recent material, but with an authenticity that has forged their identity over the years".

Re-issue, 4 page booklet 145g in a jewel case, sealed.

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.

"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".

"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.

"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...

200x heavyweight marble (white/black) ) 12" (180g) in a microtene innerbag, pinted innersleeve full-color on 220g; download card; jacket full-color printed on 350g, all assembled in a plastic overbag.

Snowland" is the very first chapter of Sorcier Des Glaces, the spark that made the original flame grow. This first draft was certainly very raw, tinged with innocence and spontaneity.
A blizzard had just broken out, in the eternal winter that had just set in.

Snowland is cold, really cold, pure, lo-fi in the extreme, achieving the very first goal of what Sorcier Des Glaces wanted to evoke in the eyes of the world. Expressing disgust with the human race by exiling himself to its own snowland, the melodies evoke a certain romanticism of the great Nordic forests. He is then alone to begin his reign on his night's throne.

Re-amping, & remastered at WSL studio by Patrick Guiraud.
New artwork by David Thierrée, and complete new layout.

300x heavyweight marble white/black 12" (180g) in a microthene innerbag, printed innersleeve, black & white on 220g carton, download card, jacket, black & white printed on 350g carton, all assembled in a plastic overbag.

"Sorcier Des Glaces' second offering to the mortal world was recorded just two years after the very first album, in August 1999. Nevertheless, the maturity of their sound and composition is perceptible. It's no longer a one-man band this time, involving Luc more extensively, who this time records all the drum parts and also participates in the elaboration of several keyboard parts. The infernal duo is officially up and running.

With its icy atmosphere and dark yet melodic compositions reflecting the northern forests of Quebec, "Moonrise in Total Darkness" defines a young band still in exploration mode. Certainly more raw in its aestheticism than the band's more recent material, but with an authenticity that has forged their identity over the years".

Re-issue, 300x heavyweight marble (white/black) ) 12" (180g) in a microtene innerbag, innersleeve printed, black & white on 220g carton (coated paper), jacket full-color printed on 350g carton, coated paper (semi-gloss), all assembled in a plastic overbag.

"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".

Re-amping, & remastered at WSL studio by Patrick Guiraud.
New artwork by David Thierrée, and complete new layout.

200x heavyweight white with black marble effect 12" (180g) in a microtene innerbag, innersleeve full-color printed on 220g, download card, jacket full-color printed on 350g, all assembled in a plastic overbag.

"Reuniting together on one supreme release, the exclusive songs that originally appeared on the 2012 split album with Monarque, and the four epic tracks that graced the 2016 split release with French black metallers ENDE, originally know as "Le Puits Des Morts". The dark hymn "Le Puits Des Morts" is featuring important figures of the Métal Noir Québécois scene as guest vocalists, including Athros (Forteresse), Blanc Feu (Cantique Lépreux / Chasse-Gallerie), Monarque (Monarque / Sanctuaire), Nordet (Brume d'Automne). It also features I. Luciferia from ENDE with guest backing vocals.
"Sous La Lune Noire" present some of their darkest and evil material, but also have epic and highly atmospheric moments."

200x heavyweight marble (white/black) 12" (180g) in a microtene innerbag; printed innersleeve full-color printed on 220g; download card; jacket, full-color printed on 350g carton, all assembled in a plastic overbag.

"Reuniting together on one supreme release, the exclusive songs that originally appeared on the 2012 split album with Monarque, and the four epic tracks that graced the 2016 split release with French black metallers ENDE, originally know as "Le Puits Des Morts". The dark hymn "Le Puits Des Morts" is featuring important figures of the Métal Noir Québécois scene as guest vocalists, including Athros (Forteresse), Blanc Feu (Cantique Lépreux / Chasse-Gallerie), Monarque (Monarque / Sanctuaire), Nordet (Brume d'Automne). It also features I. Luciferia from ENDE with guest backing vocals.
"Sous La Lune Noire" present some of their darkest and evil material, but also have epic and highly atmospheric moments."

The eponymous Sorcier Des Glaces album, the 7th in the chronology, tells the beginning of the story:
why Sorcier Des Glaces became the way he did, his growing hatred for the human race, the spirit of a rebellion that unleashed his sorcery on this world. The ultimate sacrifice of his immortality for the preservation of a hostile, ancient and icy universe over which he alone has absolute control.
This monolith was composed as a single 50-minute song.

Re-amping, & remastered at WSL studio by Patrick Guiraud.
New artwork by David Thierrée, and complete new layout.

300x marble white/black 12" in a microtene innerbag, printed innersleeve full-color on 220g carton (coated paper), download card, jacket full-color printed on 350g carton, coated paper, all assembled in a plastic overbag.