Avantgarde Music

Romania’s best kept secret? Maybe, surely indeed after the success of Negura Bunget and all their branches-born projects we know we can expect something very original, dark, moody every time that we are approaching a Romanian band.
Laburinthos is no exception to the rule! Their theatrical, at times bizarre and retrò-progressive rock and darkwave, drenched with a sad and elegant mood, is a magic surprise growing on you every further minute of this album: every song is a different chapter of this unexpected yet enthusiastic voyage!

un altro gioiello dalla Romania, paese che ultimamente ci ha abituati a progetti fuori dalle regole.... non fanno eccezione i Laburinthos che si presentano con un esordio derivante dal dark prog, molto teatrale a tratti... per tutti coloro che amano i lavori più "rock" dei Devil Doll, piuttosto che gli ultimi A forest of stars...

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Digipack A5 with massive booklet

Faunalia is Selvans sophomore album, where the band evolved and broadened their sound: their personal take on folk and black metal is now enriched by many unexpected Italian influences. This is why the band chose to define Faunalia “A Dark Italian Opus”: the use of progressive-oriented Hammond organs, synths and neofolk interludes is a heartfelt ode to the Italian musical tradition of the last four decades and more. Black metal mutates and changes and drifts away to reach the shores of orchestral, cinematic music, as Selvans developed long, unpredictable pieces like “Magna Mater, Maior Mons” having in mind both black metal and Ennio Morricone. Yet, the final outcome is surprisingly natural and consistent, something only great artists can obtain through far-fetched experimentation.

Collectors edition in woodenbox, includes digipack CD + Saor bronze pendant, certificate card, woods and leaves

Uscita 15/02/2019

nuovo album per SAOR, edizione 200 copie in vinile "effetto quad", blu e bianco

Uscita 22/02/2019

  First press, Near Mint

Atmospheric / Post Black Metal from Canada
Box set, includes cards set + digicd

Depressive rock / black metal, new album after 2014's "A Life Worth Losing".
Västerås night outcomers creatures are back with a very mature album, featuring acoustic parts and high class much much improved arrangements and general songwriting.
 

Black Vinyl

“Sun and moon, the perfect opposites.
A dualism from which every couples of opposites of the known universe springs. A duality observed and widely studied, sung and represented in several ways during past eras.
The aim of this Opus in four acts is to give another interpretation of this dichotomy, permeated by the typical elements which characterize our projects: different from each other for their variety but at the same time similar and joined an unanimous evocation of the past"
Downfall of Nur and Selvans, together as one.
This is not a split album, but a concept album composed and recorded by both bands, also performing on each other's tracks.

Dopo 5 lunghi e sofferti anni di silenzio, Arcana Coelestia risorgono dal bagliore degli splendori di " Le Mirage de L’ideal“
con un fantastico nuovo album che mixa alla perfezione le due identità (o radici) della band, con la parte funeral atmospheric doom ora decisamente prevalente sul passato black metal.

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A near Mint copy, A5 digipak edition

"Un ascolto stimolante, nella misura in cui atmosfere oscure e tenebrose, di evidente matrice black, si coniugano con una ricerca strumentale post-core, per certi versi vicina agli ultimi Isis." Estratto da "www.metallus.it"

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The grey mist surrounding Milan was the perfect setting for Korpsvart and Ymir to start writing music, an atmospheric black metal devoted to the Pacific Northwest, yet mixed with blackgaze and a taste of depressive rock.
The milanese band is only debuting, but their sound is definite and varied, yet humble. A first effort which shows a precise direction, the album succeeds in mixing fury and softness, nostalgia and sense of wonder. In the musicians own words, “though not exactly what one would call a concept album, "The Shrine Of..." can be considered as a coherent journey through the most sublime, yet dismal, aspects of nature and myth; a voyage which ultimately merges with a reflection on the human condition and its fleeting nature.”
“The Shrine Of Primal Fire finds a perfect balance between so many different feelings, making the music of A Pale December the perfect autumn soundtrack.

Digipack CD (with booklet)
 

"The End" is a concept album about a human being travelling across the lands as the world begins to end....

Each song represents different events during the ending process, and as they unfold the being feels as himself is becoming god, or death itself.
By the end of the album this being by all means becomes god and rules over the wasteland left behind.

All lyrics rely on anti-Christian themes, and overall an incredibly nihilistic approach to it all.
The album in itself represents Nihility overall.

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2 copies existing

While Selvans are full time working on the second full-length, Avantgarde Music is going to celebrate the closing of the first chapter of the band activity with a special release (for the meaning and the feature): the live album 'Hirpi'.
The album consists of four tracks covering the three Selvans releases plus the live cover of Draugr's 'Furore Pagano' as a tribute to the past.

The album has been recorded during two live performances in Pescara: on April, 23rd 2016, during a special concert in memory of Jonny Morelli - Selvans former singer and drummer - and on December, 16th of the same year.
The line-up is Haruspex and Fulguriator plus live session musicians: Acheron (guitar), Cordyceps M (bass) and HK (drums).
Draugr's ex members Triumphator (guitar) and Stolas (bass) joined Selvans on stage to perform 'Furore Pagano'.
The Faun's procession on the artwork has been conceived by Haruspex and made by the italian artist Umberto D'Ottavio.

New and selaed but comes with a very light dent on one corner of the digi

Complete Test pressings set: 2x LP (sideA/B and sideC/D) and 1x 7" ep