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Edizione Sudamericana pubblicata da ICARUS Music (nota bene: questa è una licenza ufficiale, non è un  bootleg)

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Edizione Sudamericana pubblicata da ICARUS Music (nota bene: questa è una licenza ufficiale, non è un  bootleg)

https://icarusmusicstore.com/

Edizione Sudamericana pubblicata da ICARUS Music (nota bene: questa è una licenza ufficiale, non è un  bootleg)

https://icarusmusicstore.com/

Edizione Sudamericana pubblicata da ICARUS Music (nota bene: questa è una licenza ufficiale, non è un  bootleg)

https://icarusmusicstore.com/

Edizione Sudamericana pubblicata da ICARUS Music (nota bene: questa è una licenza ufficiale, non è un  bootleg)

https://icarusmusicstore.com/

Edizione Sudamericana pubblicata da ICARUS Music (nota bene: questa è una licenza ufficiale, non è un  bootleg)

https://icarusmusicstore.com/

Edizione Sudamericana pubblicata da ICARUS Music (nota bene: questa è una licenza ufficiale, non è un  bootleg)

https://icarusmusicstore.com/

demo compilation from Chicago death metal band CONTAGION

The release compiles the 1991 and 1992 demos onto one CD, remastered by Lasse in Ballade Studios in 2021

Comes 20 page booklet with lots of old flyers, photos and info from the era around the demos in the early 1990’s

XASTHUR founder Scott Conner, an astute chronicler of the dark side of the American dream, has come to terms with the idea that his work can confuse people and be misread. He just accepts that reality now. This notion is clearly expressed in the title of his new work "Open to Misinterpretation". This insight has also firmed his resolve to neither change his artistic direction nor to attempt making his music easier for people to access. Conner is just not interested in chasing what has worked for other people or fitting neatly into a genre. This does not mean that XASTHUR are standing still. "Open to Misinterpretation" represents a deeper and more developed version of what Conner already does. He keeps honing his expression and to find new sounds and moods for his ideas. As a result, his songwriting has become equally more detailed as well as harder to predict at the same time. The production has audibly been cleared up, even though Conner still aims for the recording process to feel live, organic, and real. "Open to Misinterpretation" probably feels more complete because these songs have already been performed live on stage due to XASTHUR's prior touring activities on both sides of the Atlantic. With "Open to Misinterpretation", the American delivers a more focused and more confident album that realises the evolution and expression of Scott Conner's sound to a point that makes it harder to misunderstand this artist's intentions. Well, and if anyone does, he has come to accept it as an integral part of XASTHUR's music.

XASTHUR founder Scott Conner, an astute chronicler of the dark side of the American dream, has come to terms with the idea that his work can confuse people and be misread. He just accepts that reality now. This notion is clearly expressed in the title of his new work "Open to Misinterpretation". This insight has also firmed his resolve to neither change his artistic direction nor to attempt making his music easier for people to access. Conner is just not interested in chasing what has worked for other people or fitting neatly into a genre. This does not mean that XASTHUR are standing still. "Open to Misinterpretation" represents a deeper and more developed version of what Conner already does. He keeps honing his expression and to find new sounds and moods for his ideas. As a result, his songwriting has become equally more detailed as well as harder to predict at the same time. The production has audibly been cleared up, even though Conner still aims for the recording process to feel live, organic, and real. "Open to Misinterpretation" probably feels more complete because these songs have already been performed live on stage due to XASTHUR's prior touring activities on both sides of the Atlantic. With "Open to Misinterpretation", the American delivers a more focused and more confident album that realises the evolution and expression of Scott Conner's sound to a point that makes it harder to misunderstand this artist's intentions. Well, and if anyone does, he has come to accept it as an integral part of XASTHUR's music.

Full color picture disc in custom sleeve made of black card stock feat. hotfoil embossing and alternate artworks, heavy stock insert and a designed download card for the digital album.

FLUISTERAARS return with their sixth full-length, Jacht der Mysteriën — three towering epics centered around the pursuit of the unknown.

Drawing from local legends, mysterious lights in the woods, and close observation of their immediate surroundings, the album was conceived as a live and complete band album and captured in a single take with longtime producer T. Cochrane.

Reamped through the hollow cylinder of an abandoned water tower, the record drifts between presence and disappearance — immersive, urgent, and elusive.

Hand numbered to 5 copies

Especially released for the VINTERLAND concert at the "Avantgarde Music Festival II" on 05/09/2026 in a numbered and limited to 350 copies edition.

The copies not sold at the gig are on sale now besides a few tens (band's private copies) 
The EP includes two demo songs and comes in bone-white vinyl