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Since 2007, FAUSTIAN PACT have been one of Finnish black metal's best-kept secrets: "those who know, know." Their first three demos, one following the other between 2008-2010, poignantly presented a magickal, folkloric aspect long missing from serious black metal. They were a band out of time, seemingly - "born too late," not fit for these increasingly modern times. Now, nearly a decade after FAUSTIAN PACT's last demo, this trio of sorcerors bring the past into the present with their LONG-awaited debut album.

Red-in-White / Black Marbled

Digipack with 16 pages booklet

Mixed and Mastered by Stephen Lockhart at Studio Emissary, Iceland. Band Photos by Void Revelations. Band Art and Calligraphy by Jose Gabriel Alegría Sabogal.

- 350gsm Gatefold Jacket With Matt Varnish And Inside Flooded In Black
- 140g Black Vinyl

Six panels digipak with booklet 

Drought is an entity spawned to channel its creators’ creative energy in a black metal form. The Tantric concept has been adopted to transform this energy into a tale of upheaval and elevation, using fire as a metaphor to celebrate spiritual transformation through cleansing, drawing purity from impurity. After a promising debut EP Drought fell into several years of silence, from which they will finally rise this spring to unleash their first full-length album, Trimurti.

As a Lotus grows from the swamp, enlightenment comes from improvement and regeneration. In Trimurti this theme is reprised from the previous ep Rudra Bhakti (2016, also on Avantgarde Music) and deepened, generating three suites - each explaining one of the three phases of this spiritual turmoil, as well as the three phases of Pranayama, and overall, the three phases of evolution: awareness - transformation - elevation. Nine tracks divided into three conceptual segments - this new opus develops and brings forth the tantric concept of the previous release, articulating it into a full spiritual blast of extreme music.

When asked to introduce the album, Drought said: “Trimurti represents the tantric chemistry of our creative energies and the ones kept within the sea, the mountains and the woods which surround us, channeled into music to celebrate the eternal life hidden in this world and in the ones behind it”.

Trimurti will be out on cd and lp (regular and limited) on May 15th / 22nd  

By now, Denial of God should need little introduction. Since that fateful year of 1991, the brothers Azter and Ustumallagam have perfected an idiosyncratic style of black metal that's positively drenched in the supernatural and remains firm in their conviction of more classicist-styled songwriting. In fact, "black metal" might even be a misnomer; rather, BLACK HORROR METAL would be more accurate.
Of course, the journey has never been easy, and such is the case with the band's now-classic debut album, The Horrors of Satan, originally released in 2006. Although a debut album is usually a momentous event for most bands, The Horrors of Satan almost never came to be because of lineup problems. Drummer Sorgh left the band in 1999, just after the release of the mini-album Klabautermanden and just when work was about to begin on DENIAL OF GOD's first full-length. After this, the band worked with session drummer R. Salskov for about three years and songwriting progressed well, when also this lineup fell apart and left the band a two-piece of vocalist Ustumallagam and guitarist Azter. Things looked bleak for the future when no new drummer for years was found, but in 2005, finally, Galheim joined the band and helped incarnate what is now considered the band's classic lineup. Work was immediately assumed for the first album, and in 2006, The Horrors of Satan was finally recorded and released, comprising material that was written from the ‘90s to shortly before the actual recording.
Furthering DENIAL OF GOD's by-then already-unique style, The Horrors of Satan retains a very medieval feel with its lyrics about witches, werewolves, vampires and the infamous iron gibbet, which was a body-shaped iron cage used to display the bodies of dead or dying criminals. The album also became the beginning of a new and stronger chapter for DENIAL OF GOD, with many of the songs still appearing in the band's live sets today - a chapter which, so far, has produced several EPs and three albums. It also saw the band moving towards an even-more-epic songwriting, proved by the 13-minute title track, for example, which closes the album.
At long last, The Horrors of Satan is back on vinyl again for the first time in 14 years, with CD and cassette versions also to be widely available. Experience this resounding classic again, or for the first time!

Reprint, 190 x black vinyl 2x12" (180g), 12 page vinyl sized booklet , full-color on 140g offset art paper, gatefold, full-color on 350g, all assembled in a PVC overbag.

After their first lash from the devil's tail that came out of nowhere, DUIVEL is now releasing their first full-blown attack upon this world. An audial vomit orchestra, straight from the mouth of Satan, "Tirades uit de Hel" brings you hateful black metal from the days of yore. Prepare to be scorched by purgatory fires and trampled by sulphuric hooves! There is no saviour, only demise! Pure uncompromising black metal hell from The Netherlands, this is a fresh nail in God's coffin. Oh, rejoice, vermin of the shadows!

Line-up:
Guitars - N (Urfaust, Botulistum, ex-Fluisterwoud)
Drums - D (D.R.E.P.)
Bass - P (Black Anvil)
Synth - K
Vocals track 1, track 3, track 5 - S (Galgeras, ex-Fluisterwoud)
Vocals track 2 - B (ex-Lugubrum)
Vocals track 4 - W (Urfaust, The Spirit Cabinet)
Vocals track 6 - V (Vaal, Ravenzang

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Il formato EP deve essere molto gradito ai francesi Moonreich dal momento che, all'interno della loro decennale carriera, questo "Wormgod" è già il terzo e segue, ad un solo anno di distanza, il precedente "Fugue", entrambi rilasciati dalla sempre valida ed attenta Les Acteurs de l'Ombre Productions, etichetta che alla quantità preferisce la qualità.
Come di consueto in casa Moonreich, per lo meno con le ultime uscite, si fa fatica a parlare "solo" di Black Metal analizzando la loro proposta vista la molteplicità delle influenze e, soprattutto, la complessità di una musica finemente arrangiata, variegata nel suo incedere e, cosa non sempre scontata nel genere, suonata e prodotta in maniera perfetta.
"Wormgod" è un album, dunque, molto ricco: i francesi riescono ad unire efficacemente death, black, atmosfere ortodosse, concessioni alla melodia, magistrale brutalità (ascoltate con attenzione la spettacolare "To Crawl this World") ed a risultare convincenti anche quando si cimentano nella cover in chiave estrema di "Broken" dei Depeche Mode.
Appare chiaro che i Moonreich siano un gruppo di spessore e che la loro musica debba essere ascoltata con attenzione per coglierne ogni sfumatura ed ogni variazione poiché, anche all'interno dello stesso brano, diversi sono i cambi di registro, molteplici i saliscendi ritmici e imprevedibili gli sviluppi pur se, occorre sottolinearlo, l'ambito di azione del gruppo resta sempre fortemente estremo e devastante.
Tra dissonanze urticanti, ottimi assolo di chitarra, velocità assassine e brutalità debordante, "Wormgod" è un album che va gustato tutto di un fiato più e più volte, ogni volta alla ricerca del particolare sfuggito nell'ascolto precedente.
Come al solito, bravi davvero!