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2017's The Optimist is Anathema's first album since 2014's spellbinding Distant Satellites and contains the band's darkest, most challenging and unexpected material.

Recorded in Winter 2016 at Attica Studio in Donegal and Castle of Doom Studios in Glasgow with producer Tony Doogan (Mogwai, Belle & Sebastian, Super Furry Animals) at the helm. Doogan's influence is instantly tangible as for the first time in years Anathema recorded as a live band for an album, capturing an energy normally only present on stage. A technique that should be welcomed by fans aware of the band's supreme live power - previously captured on the celebrated concert film, Universal.

CD in digipak with 16 page booklet.
 

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,
 

Jewelcase

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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.
 

Angela Martyr
'The November Harvest' A5-sized digipack CD

The new creature of Morgan Bellini (VANESSA VAN BASTEN).

Grungy, mechanical, pessimistic metalgaze.

For fans of
Godflesh, Slowdive, Katatonia (early), Alice in Chains

Cover by Fred Einaudi
Layout by Tryfar
Mastering by James Plotkin

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The album is a pitch black story of isolation, degradation, and abuse whose narrative is as intense as the music that delivers it. The acclaimed trio weave grandiose symphonic swells and surges with razor sharp guitars to create an epic, unmissable record. 'This Is No Fairy Tale' is a daring work of modern extremity and CARACH ANGREN's finest moment yet.
 

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This mid paced Pure Goblin Black Metal trio plays in the tradition of the early 90s underground, before Black Metal became popular. Recorded with a demo tape audio aesthetic for added grimness, and full-on worship of "Lord of the Rings" (Bakshi>Jackson)