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Demo I' originally released on CS in 2012 by Ilmestys.

'Demo II' originally released on CS in 2015 by Fallow Field.

Ilmestys "Demo I" brings a breath of fresh air to the raw black metal scene. This tape is absolutely insane! Get on this. "Total fucking whirlwind of chaos on a demo not to be slept on. Driving riffs, incredible drumming, and masterful riffs encircle you in despair and supernatural anxiety."
 

"The Sachem's Tales is an amazing work of solid, agonizing and intense feelings cutting black metal. Behind the music there lies a melodic agreement with the guitars and the synthesizer sounds, kind of giving a counterpoint to each, but all joining in the end for fantastic melodic landscapes. From worlds of mythologies and legends, the lyrics never saturate, even on the predictable despair of the clean female voice and strings moments."

(Review excerpt by Lonely Dark World)
 

Led by visionary musician Trond Engum, composer and guitarist for Norwegian experimental band The 3rd and The Mortal, The Soundbyte is a solo venture intended to pierce the dark heart of avant-garde and experimental metal.

Built almost entirely around Engum’s unique guitar and electronic sound, Hoemsnes’ signature rhythms and haunting and ethereal vocal work The Soundbyte has created what is undoubtedly their finest work to date and 2017’s most progressively breathtaking record. Solidifying the duo’s off-kilter vision for sonic expression and paying painstaking attention to every detail, it is a multifaceted endeavor designed for constant re-visitation and one that will reward listeners time and time again.
 

Ito The Arcane hails from The Netherlands and was formed in January 2016 by (ex) Dead End members Jeroen van Riet, Gunther Weerepas and Alwin Roes. Into The Arcane delivers atmospheric doom metalheavily rooted in old school death metal. "Het Verlangen der Geest" is their debut. The lyrics concern the darker corners of the mind and arcane historic tales. The band is currently promoting the EP and working on a full length album, to be expected in the winter of 2017/2018. Mixed and mastered by Robin Cornelissen (Pentacle, Morthra, Infernal Majesty).
 

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On this fifth album, Catalonia's FOSCOR carve a multi-facetted jewel out of deep longing, their country's characteristic melancholy, and dark foreboding heaviness. This album invites the listener onto a cinematic journey through dream landscapes created by carefully arranged sonic delights and unexpected aural twists. 'Les Irreals Visions' is easily drawing its eager audience in, only to lure the unwary listener into a dark labyrinth of unexpected complexity filled with beauty and sorrow, which they might find much harder to leave than anticipated. Enjoy charting your course through the glittering facets of this musical gem.
 

Featuring guest appearances by members of Undersmile, As We Were When We Were Not sees Mountains Crave expanding on the blueprint laid down with their eponymous EP, incorporating disparate influences from Pink Floyd to Wolves in the Throne Room. Deftly interweaving blast-led savagery with delicate and pensive atmospherics, the listener is stimulated on both a visceral and cerebral level. Inspired by Aldous Huxley’s 1962 lecture on visionary experience, the album explores themes such as spiritual enlightenment, death and the afterlife, and man’s kinship and subsequent alienation from the universe.

Including past and present members of A Forest of Stars, Old Corpse Road, The Afternoon Gentlemen, Gets Worse, and Masochist, Mountains Crave began in March 2013
 

Saule was formed in Poland in 2015, which has come to have the most creative and ever-surprising extreme metal scene of any European country - and for underground music, in general. It is incredible the amount of new bands and great music that this country is giving to fans for the past 15 years - and let's not forget the past! - both in metal, post-rock and prog metal fields.

And that's precisely where Saule comes in with Saule. The band's formation process and search for the proper people took about two years, and it resulted in a carefully crafted debut album recorded during the late autumn of 2016 in Satanic Audio. A work of vast vision and rigorous repose, the sound across Saule is focused around post-metal and post-rock genre, but strongly deriving from black metal and acutely coated in subtle ambient echoes.

Given Saule's rather brief existence and minimal experiences so far (although they've already made their live debut with landmates Thaw and others), the band presently prefers to keep a minimalistic outlook and would love to let the music do the talking. Open your ears to Saule!
 

New EP from the really dark and obscure black metal band Kozeljnik,
 

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Abyssian, is an atlantean doom metal band, founded by the old Sinoath member Rob Messina.

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Disc: MINT

Digipak: VG+

Second full-length album
The Xun Protectorate is a concept album about mysterious occurrences on a space station, or cosmic city, in orbit around the sun several centuries into the future. It features the Khonsu lineup of S. Gronbech and vocalist T’ol (Chton, Killing for Company), as well as guest appearances by the more famous of the Gronbech brothers, Keep of Kalessin’s Obsidian C., on solo guitar on several tracks, and clean vocals by Rune Folgerø (Manes, Atrox).

4 panel Digipak with 24 page booklet. Includes lyrics and artwork for all invidiual tracks.
 

Born out of the partnership of singer-songwriter Aleah Starbridge and guitarist-composer Juha Raivio,
Trees of Eternity began as a quiet acoustic collaboration but then sprouted into a full band, with the Norrman
brothers (ex-Katatonia, October Tide) on stringed instruments and the ubiquitous Kai Hahto on drums.
Three years of work on the group's debut album were tragically cut short this spring when Aleah passed away during the album's final post-production phase. The work is now finished, and Svart Records are proud to present it to the world to honor the legacy and artistry of Aleah Starbridge. Cover art is by the incomparable Fursy Teyssier (Les Discrets). Juha and Fursy had long nightly conversations about the ethereal magic of Aleah, and Fursy's work manages to capture the essence of the album perfectly. "The art contains such power and calm beauty, so many hidden messages. It is mystical in the same way that Aleah always was", comments Juha Raivio.