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The Burning Reprieve / Shifting Transcendental: Autonomous Gate To The Other Side

gatefold cover, black vinyl: MINT

Solid gatefold cover printed on reverse board, 12" LP booklet on uncoated thick stock, download of the album on a specially designed card.

Iskandr, the enigmatic heathen black metal project by creator O, returns in the autumn of the year MMXXI with their third full-length album. In two albums and two EP’s spread out between MMXVI and now, the project has seen an interesting arc of development from spacious atmospheres and regal solitude towards both a more battle hardened aggression as well as elaborate acoustic instrumentation. The new album “Vergezicht” not only delivers on what these earlier releases promised but further elevates Iskandr into higher planes of compositional complexity.

Utilising a variety of electric and acoustic instruments – as well as a wide array of vocal techniques – the sound of Iskandr has ventured further into realms of monumental sonic architecture. The fruitful collaboration between O’s musical direction and engineering, and M. Koop’s foundational drumming, provides a degree of clarity and forcefulness to the record that goes well beyond anything put out under the Haeresis Noviomagi banners until now. The regal triumphalism of its MMXVIII predecessor “Euprosopon” is further expanded upon, yielding six hymns chronicling stories of heroic resistance, deceit and regeneration. 

4-panel Digipak in a deluxe reverse (rough) finish. Accompanied by a 8-page booklet on uncoated paper, including lyrics and album information.

Iskandr, the enigmatic heathen black metal project by creator O, returns in the autumn of the year MMXXI with their third full-length album. In two albums and two EP’s spread out between MMXVI and now, the project has seen an interesting arc of development from spacious atmospheres and regal solitude towards both a more battle hardened aggression as well as elaborate acoustic instrumentation. The new album “Vergezicht” not only delivers on what these earlier releases promised but further elevates Iskandr into higher planes of compositional complexity.

Utilising a variety of electric and acoustic instruments – as well as a wide array of vocal techniques – the sound of Iskandr has ventured further into realms of monumental sonic architecture. The fruitful collaboration between O’s musical direction and engineering, and M. Koop’s foundational drumming, provides a degree of clarity and forcefulness to the record that goes well beyond anything put out under the Haeresis Noviomagi banners until now. The regal triumphalism of its MMXVIII predecessor “Euprosopon” is further expanded upon, yielding six hymns chronicling stories of heroic resistance, deceit and regeneration. 

Damaged Cover

- 350gsm Gatefold Jacket with Gold Hot Foil and UV Varnish with Scratch Resistant
Lamination and Inside Flooded in Black
- 180g Black Heavyweight Vinyl housed in a Black Poly Lined Bag
- 250gsm Cardboard Insert with Gold Print and Matt Varnish
- A2 Poster on 150gsm Art Paper with Gold Print and Matt Varnish

Simply put, Malediction is a statement of intent. A purely Satanic album, in the band's eyes, and one which draws a line firmly in the sand, this is pure Southern Vassaforian Hell driven to the outer reaches of primitivism and transcendence. Here, VASSAFOR strip bare their most barbaric tendencies, down to their most unapologetic form, and build anew a temple of unimaginable might. The maw of chaos opens ever wide, beckoning the listener to submit and be devoured; meanwhile, tendrils of tension untether in a manner most ambient. If any of VASSAFOR's earlier work achieved a sense of vertigo - and it surely has - then Malediction is the band's most potent distillation/distortion of such yet. Across a time-evaporating/halting 50 minutes, each of the five tracks comprising Malediction work as mantra and spell simultaneously. Doom(ier) elements are largely traded for utter violence and virulence, which somehow makes the end result all the more stultifying and psychedelic in equal measure.
 

• Highly anticipated third album and first domestic release for Floridian funereal death doom band 
• Wild and fantastic artwork from Brad Moore (Tomb Mold, Morpheus Descends, Organic Infest) 
• For fans of Disembowelment, Thorns Of The Carrion, Ceremonium, Spectral Voice, Goatlord, Evoken, Gorement, Atramentus 

• For fans of Ulcerate, Gorguts, Deathspell Omega, Wormed, Cannibal Corpse, Suffocation, Immolation, Dead Congregation, Hate Eternal, Morbid Angel

FERAL SEASON is Karl Cordtz and Patrick Hills. All songs and lyrics were written by Cordtz in isolation during the Summer and Fall of 2020. Drums and synth were added by Hills. “Rotting Body In The Range Of Light”, FERAL SEASON’s debut full-length LP was recorded following winter at Earthtone Recording Company in Sacramento California. The influence of early to mid Scandinavian black metal forms the bands sonic backbone, though their songs often wander into more hallucinatory soundscapes. The project initially began as a way for Cordtz to explore a personal connection between black metal and the landscapes of Northern California. “Rotting Body in the Range of Light” is a portrayal of the loss of one's mind and a subsequent flight into the depths of the inner self.

Fourth pressing on a Retail Exclusive Neon Green vinyl. Includes poster, lyric sheet insert, and Stargate Research Society booklet.
 

With “Hidden History of the Human Race”, Denver, Colorado’s cosmic death metallers BLOOD INCANTATION present the successor to one of the most talked about death metal debuts in recent years, 2016’s “Starspawn”. A cerebral whirlwind of intense and otherworldly atmospheric death metal, “Starspawn” took the underground Death Metal world by storm and is about to be topped by the quartet’s second offering. From the neck-breaking speed, slams, and sheer aggression of ‘Slave Species of the Gods’ to the album’s 18 minutes long final track “Awakening From the Dream of Existence to the Multidimensional Nature of Our Reality (Mirror of the Soul)”, BLOOD INCANTATION have excelled themselves at crafting a dynamic foray into the realms of progressive, brutal & strangely melodic death metal, all recorded analogue at World Famous Studios. Accompanied by stunning art by sci-fi legend Bruce Pennington, “HHofHR” is the manifest of a band destined to top many year’s end lists! Available as limited Digipak with Patch and luxurious LP with Gatefold sleeve, A2 poster, CD, 20-page LP booklet and lyric sheet!

Red Opaque

Limited black vinyl, gatefold cover, insert with liner notes by Mikael Stanne