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SPEKTR takes delight in delivering an infinitely dark, at times psychotic aura, and transmuting the Black Metal reins into a loose form. Shrouded in a veil of vocalless, industrial and ambient-infected secrecy, the duo's music stands as a metaphore for a trip into the unconfortable uknown.

Limited to 234 handnumbered copies opaque white vinyl with a black haze and an exclusive white poster + a digital download code.
 

Reaper Subconscious Guide è un album strano, sicuramente originale e di conseguenza poco comprensibile, io stesso al primo ascolto sono rimasto inorridito. Furze non è nuovo a queste soluzioni ma stavolta ha deciso di esagerare portando la sua concezione del Black Metal al limite, incastonandolo in una dimensione temporale che scava molto nel passato, talmente tanto da conferirgli un'aurea che profuma di anni 70, l'epoca in cui i Black Sabbath diventavano immortali. Questo nuovo disco della band norvegese è un perfetto mix tra malvagità nera e atmosfere anni 70, ovviamente dal timbro doomish e in alcuni momenti anche psichedelici. Cinque lunghi brani in cui i deliri mentali sono la costante con cui dovrete fare i conti, ma l'apice viene toccato nella conclusiva Essential Wait dove in dodici minuti confluiscono tutte quelle che sono le influenze artistiche di Furze: Black Metal, Doom Metal, Hard Rock anni 70 (quello più oscuro) e pure un certo tocco Dark/Progressive Rock, anche questo proveniente direttamente dai seventies. Molte scelte potevano essere calibrate in maniera megliore, non è sempre facile mantenere la concentrazione, c'è il rischio di distrarsi a causa di una certa propensione a rendere il tutto poco fluido. Ciò non toglie che i Furze hanno deciso di dare uno scossone alla loro concezione di musica rendendola più originale e criptica, speriamo si sappia evolvere nel tempo.
 

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"V: The Inside Scriptures" is a closing chapter of Aosoth's musical and lyrical concept. Distinctive and downright suffocating, the album shows many differences to "III" & "IV: Arrow In Heart", the two previous full-length releases, especially in terms of atmosphere. The recordings took nearly three years and were interrupted by many events in the personal lives of Bst & MkM. At some point, the album was about to be abandoned and never released.
 

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Genre-defying Dutch death metal legends PESTILENCE have singled-out and re-recorded twelve emblematic anthems from across their 38-year career into "Levels of Perception".

Patrick Mameli - whose signature vocal, guitar and songwriting skills constitute the hallmark of PESTILENCE - finds "Levels of Perception" to be a testament to the band's role in death metal's progression. "I've always wanted to do a best-of album, because it would mean that I've achieved something in the past; something that still has its value today," Mameli reflects. "To be able to choose from songs that I composed in the distant past, transporting them into the now, with the line-up of the recordings that consisted of Michiel van der Plicht (drums), Rutger van Noordenburg (guitar) and Joost van der Graaf (bass) - I found this to be of great value and sheer awesomeness."

Re-recording of the tracks has not only managed to breathe new life into them - half thanks to new line-up, and other half by implementing subtle changes which reflect Mameli's matured vision and refined with years of experience aesthetic - but also sets them apart from cheap, unimaginative compilations, by unifying the album's sound as befits a full-length release. "The album's title is Levels of Perception. Why? Because this is what has happened with the songs," Mameli explains. "Performed by different musicians, with their own views, musical abilities and interpretations, shining a new light on them. So here we are with new Levels of Perception."

 version digi limited con slipcase e due bonus tracks 

Formed in 1995 by Katatonia members, Jonas Renkse and Fred Norrman, OCTOBER TIDE spawned two, now-cult releases: "Rain Without End" (1997) and "Grey Dawn" (1999), before going on hiatus for over 11 years. Reunited in 2009, and since 2015 with a new full-time drummer Jocke Wallgren (Valkyrja, Astrophobos), the Swedes continue to push their vision of melodic death/doom metal to the next level. Executed with passion, the band's new album "Winged Waltz" is a showcase of what talent and expertise can bring to the table. OCTOBER TIDE are well-seasoned in their field of metal and are coming back in full swing, with their most emotionally charged material yet.
 

Dalla Francia un'altra band che ha preso in custodia il testimone e l'eredità da Blut Aus Nord e Deathspell Omega....
Black Metal dissonante con vaghe influenze industrial ed una costante atmosfera plumbea...
 

A5 digipack with 8 pages booklet with a completely different artwork than the standard digipack edition (or the vinyl one). Strictly limited to one-edition only


Initially announced as a complementary ep to last year's album 'oltreLuna', q[T]p eventually found in their hands a giant work, almost worth calling it a new album.

Lys is the mastermind of Enisum, the well-known Italian atmospheric black metal band. After focusing on his main band for over a decade, the time came for the musician from Val di Susa to temporarily focus on something different. Here comes Silent Woods, Lys first solo album, a mélange of atmospheric black metal, acoustic music, nature, landscapes, mountains, rivers and forests. 

Similar to yet different from his main musical endeavours, Silent Woods shows a varied sound palette, with the usual Enisum references (Agalloch, Wolves In The Throne Room and the Pacific Northwestern scene) and some twists. Acoustic guitars and clean vocals find their way in, and so do more extreme elements, such as gurgling screams and hypnotic, circular guitar riffs with clear depressive black metal references (Xasthur, Leviathan and the likes).

Come join Lys in his new venture through the woods of Northwestern Italy. Avantgarde Music will take you to the Alps on October 29th.