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Atmospheric / Post Black Metal from Canada
 

Digipack with slipcase Ltd to 500 handnumbered copies

Double LP in ultra-clear vinyl

Russian blackgaze duo Olhava is back with their new studio album. Frozen Blooom is the natural follow-up to self-titled Olhava (2019) and Ladoga (2020), and integrates some dronescapes the band experimented on Never Leave Me Alone (2020), the drone version of their debut.

Multi-instrumentalist Andrey Novozhilov and drummer Timur Yusupov describe their new journey with words of thoughtful contemplation: “When winter is just starting to fade and give some space to the first steps of spring… When life starts to reappear and the very early flowers peek through the thawing soil, a sudden drop of the temperature can leave them petrified and frozen back again, punished by the “Queen of Fields”. This statuesque dead beauty, being infinitely alive and dead at the same time is the main metaphor of this album. Frozen Bloom is about unfulfilled dreams. About how we sacrifice everything today for some abstract “tomorrow”, which may never come. But tomorrow and yesterday don’t exist – only this very moment of static contemplation is real”.

Frozen Bloom is Olhava’s fourth opus in three years, and here the duo took some different routes compositionally. Two of the four tracks are traditionally storm-like blackgaze passages, while the other two are leaning towards a more meditative drone experience. The album also features A. Lunn, who kindly agreed to record an electric guitar solo as well as acoustic parts and choral parts on “Frozen Bloom I”.

Frozen Bloom was recorded at Olhava home studios, as well as at the local rehearsal space. Mikhail Kurochkin took care of mixing and mastering.

Mastermind Dan Swanö (Edge Of Sanity, Witherscape, Nightingale…) has been busy lately bringing back to attention one of his old and first prog projects Unicorn, and Alone Records is pleased to help with it!. He would comment on this upcoming vinyl and cd reissue:

Black Vinyl

Also included:
*A high resolution scan of the original artwork
*A high resolution scan of each lyric from the original artwork
*The 1486 word essay "Behind the Scenes" by Dan Swanö
*A credits page in English
*An information sheet about the band

Mastermind Dan Swanö (Edge Of Sanity, Witherscape, Nightingale…) has been busy lately bringing back to attention one of his old and first prog projects Unicorn, and Alone Records is pleased to help with it!. He would comment on this upcoming vinyl and cd reissue:

Comes as six panel digisleeve

Also included:
*A high resolution scan of the original artwork
*A high resolution scan of each lyric from the original artwork
*The 1486 word essay "Behind the Scenes" by Dan Swanö
*A credits page in English
*An information sheet about the band

Coming from the misty mountains of the extreme south of Brazil, PATRIA is one of the most imminent Black Metal bands in South America today. Forged in 2008 by the multi-instrumentalist Mantus and the vocalist Triumphsword, both veteran musicians from the local Black Metal bands Mysteriis and Thorns of Evil.
Musically they track under the tenuous line between necro Black Metal and experimental avant-garde music in an epic journey mixing the South American metal madness with the classic and dark Scandinavian vein. Drawing influences from many different types of music but keeping the harsh feeling shape of the Black Metal core. Twisted, dirty & melodic in its own way. Lyrically PATRIA explores the beauty and power of nature and the universe in themes as misanthropy, death and grief, still allied with a strong anti-religion awareness.
 

Of Earth and Sun is the project of Denver based Matthew Hunzeker, who skillfully utilizes a variety of both organic and electronic instrumentation ranging from bone trumpets, vocals, oscillators, and drum machines to create impressive soundscapes of heavily ritualistic inspired drones and intoxicating, near cataclysmic invocations.
The 9 tracks that comprise Uncoiled seem monolithic and almost overpoweringly dense, but repeated listens reveal them to be intensely hypnotic and mesmerizing, often times starting with singular, elongated vocalizations or slow motion thrums that rapidly blossom into a cascade of swarming drones and thumping pulsations. By the end, they've been transformed into a consuming mass of saturated, turbulent sound, falling somewhere between the visceral, immersive nature of Theologian and the meditative, organic darkness of Halo Manash.
 

With this release New Era Productions and Hammerheart Records teamed up to release the “Studio Demo 1993” on LP and CD. As a bonus it will include the official and suitably raw "Livetape 1992”.
Cover has been re-done and audio has been remastered; comes with old photo's and lyrics.
A true piece of Blackened Dutch Metal history!
CD as digipak with 8 page booklet, limited to 500 copies.
 

Dopo alcuni demo, mini e split arriva l'esordio a lunga durata per questa band americana, in puro old-style black metal. Confezione in Digipack molto curato

"Fear" is a memorable slab of dark, riff-heavy black metal. It'll please anyone who likes their black metal catchy rather than drone-y -- think Master's Hammer or Mortuary Drape, and then check this out. Recommended.
(Review by vorfeed: http://vorfeed.net)
 

Debut full-length, 6-panels digipack.

"This is death metal that puts heaviness and atmosphere first and foremost. They play with a punk edge and is borderline grindcore in its delivery, think of Hateplow or Misery Index. Pig’s Blood is a death metal album with a demo like rawness. It feels like you are in the front row and the amp is blazing into your ear or you’re watching the band practise."
www.brutalism.com
 

Over The Voids was founded on one man’s vision of a mid-nineties black metal revival. However, this work of art far transcends simple nostalgia or tributes paid to ages past; while many bands are content with leading an existence as living homages to other people’s innovations, this solo project has an entirely different intensity to its artistic fire. The musical and lyrical aspects along with their aesthetic representation are forged in synergy to ponder the riddles of mortality.

Commanding the centre of attention is the distinctly mixed twin-guitars, acting much like a conductor’s baton as they dictate where to bring the music and its accompanying mood. The melodies are the focal point, merging the icy darkness of Transylvanian Hunger with the dreamy woodland landscapes of Bergtatt. Despite the catchy melodies, Over The Voids is more the type of music to which one would drift on some flight of the mind, rather than bang one’s head.

CD housed in a 4 panel digipack
12 page booklet including fantastic custom lithograph art.