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Description:
- Limited to 4000 copies
- Comes in a synthetic leather oversize box
- Digipak
- 1 bonus track
- Includes: Embroidered patch and goat leather keychain

Track 1. From Nattens Madrigal off Vargnatt 1993 demo.
Track 2. From A Memorable Fancy Plates 21-22 off Themes from Wiliam Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 1998.
Track 3. From Silence teaches you how to sing off Silence teaches you how to sing ep 2001. Mixed in Oslo and Bergen Dec. 2002
Track 4. Off Lyckantropen Themes 2002. Mixed in France Oct. 2002.
Track 5. From Lost in moments off Perdition City 2000. Mixed in Stovner, Oslo Sept. 2002.
Track 6. From The Voice of the Devil off Themes from Wiliam Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 1998. Bogdan recommends: Cut thinly one medium sized potato and fry in pan with olive oil. Once browned, sprinkle chopped basil and curry powder until smiling. Eat well.
Track 7. From Speak dead speaker off Silencing the singing ep 2001. Made in Wallpaper 2002
Track 8. From Not saved off Silencing the singing ep 2001. Produced and remixed at the Neotropic Media Center. UK 2002. Publ.: Big Orange Cat Music.
Track 9. Various off Perdition City 2000 with samples from renaissance string remake off Nattens Madrigal. Made in Adam's big house, Bruxelles, Belgium 2002. Publ.: BMI.
Track 10. Various off Perdition City 2000. Recorded at Friseur Julie, Austria Nov. 2002. Publ.: Touchmusic [mcps].
Track 11. Various off Perdition City 2000. Publ.: Mego
Track 12.Various off Bergtatt 1994. Mixed in Oslo and Trondheim Nov. 2002.
Track 13. Various off Nattens Madrigal 1996. Publ.: V/Vm Test.
Track 14. Various off Bergtatt 1994 and Nattens Madrigal 1996. Recorded and mixed in bedroom, Tokyo Oct. 2002. Publ.: Merzbow

 CD was distributed as a bonus item available through the label's online mail order, when purchasing the vinyl LP, and later as an unannounced bonus to mail orders of other Southern Lord releases.

The artwork for the 1xCD is misprinted; it is the same as the 2xCD version, and so incorrectly lists the second disc included in the 2xCD version and featuring the extra track, "Helio)))sophist." The track is also (incorrectly) referred to in the liner notes below.

Limited to 2000 copies. This version include a second CD of live recordings.
'Solstitium Fulminate' Live at Roskilde 0705

Limited edition reprint (200) of the official 2016 re-issue. Co-released with H.O.D. Productions

Limited edition reprint (200) of the official 2016 re-issue. Co-released with H.O.D. Productions

Limited edition reprint (200) of the official 2016 re-issue. Co-released with H.O.D. Productions

Limited edition reprint (200) of the official 2016 re-issue. Co-released with H.O.D. Productions

The actual Album plus the 4 songs from the 2010 Split release with Sapthuran.

Since 2005, Greece's SAD have been a madly prolific bastion of pure 'n' cold black metal. Their canon is vast and varied - VERY relatively so, given that this is all-caps BLACK METAL after all - with the longstanding duo of instrumentalist Ungod and vocalist Nadir exploring the darkest corridors of their souls every step of the way. They did so across a half-dozen albums for such esteemed labels as Drakkar, Obscure Abhorrence, and Old Temple among others as well as a dozen splits, but then joined forces with PURITY THROUGH FIRE in 2020 for the release of their seventh album, Misty Breath of Ancient Forests, and again in 2023 for Black Metal Craft.

Proudly remaining in the PURITY THROUGH FIRE stronghold, SAD return with their ninth(!) album, Fullmoon's Bestial Awakening. While its title might be something of an aesthetic misnomer - this is NOT bestial metal, thankfully - Fullmoon's Bestial Awakening does keep intact the nastiness of Black Metal Craft, making for a complementary record to its cantankerous predecessor. SAD here are characteristically unconcerned with anything in "black metal" during this millennium, still harkening to the glorious late '90s heyday of Sombre Records or the aforementioned Drakkar and yet tempered with the wisdom & resolve surely established by a band who've been around 25 years now. No more but definitely no less, Fullmoon's Bestial Awakening is raw & ripping orkishness shot through with a touch of the melancholic but all stirred malevolently, where hypnotic speed - cruise, gallop, headbang, or any combination thereof - often rights itself into something somewhat regal or at least triumphant. And just like that not-inconsiderable predecessor, SAD's ninth full-length similarly stretches toward the epic, encompassing eight songs in 55 minutes of righteous obsidian splendor. Cold, old, and still no surrender!