CD

First official tribute to the Norwegian black metal legend Emperor. Approved by all members. Mastered by Sverker Widgren of Demonical and Diabolical in Necromorbus Studio. Originally released on CD by Tryzna Production in cooperation with Metal Swamp in 2012

Regular jewel case with 8-page booklet.

Krigsdøger, the second full-length from the bloodiest Norwegian black metal duo Gjendød, will be released March 9th on CD and digital formats. The follow-up to the acclaimed debut LP 'Nedstigning', the album brings nine brand new tracks, balancing infernal wall of sound
with evocative melodies and prominent bass lines. Be prepared for their most intense and varied work to date that still retains the band's distinctive Norse flavour.

6-panel digipak with booklet

Five years, five releases on Hellthrasher. Since their debut 2016 demo, the prolific Norwegian black metal duo have managed to maintain the incredible pace of releases without disregarding the quality of songwriting and execution. On their third full-length 'Angrep', Gjendød deliver eight new tracks that stay true to the band's trademark sound, while being faster, noisier and more aggressive than anything they've done before. Immerse into the angry world of Angrep...

YMIR's history stretches back to the late '90s. The band originally existed as a trio of vocalist/guitarist Vrasjarn, later of funeral doomlords Profetus; drummer Lord Sargofagian, who concurrently founded the prolific Baptism; and lead guitarist Toni Pölkki. With this lineup, YMIR released the Trollsword demo in 1999, mystical black metal firmly (and favorably) of its time. Seven more years would follow before another recording came from YMIR, as the brothers Vrasjarn and Lord Sargofagian were busy with the aforementioned bands (and many others), but the Silvery Howling demo at last arrived in 2006, courtesy of WEREWOLF, and saw the band scaled back to a duo and evincing a rawer, nastier sound whilst retaining the sweet stench of the '90s. Naturally, once again, more silence ensued...

But from the past comes the storms...of icy, grandiose, paradigmatically Finnish black metal, bearing the no-bullshit title of Ymir. As can be expected, YMIR's long-brewing debut album is both a summation of their sparse but no-less-considerable past and a strident extension into both present and future. Never before have the band sounded so invigorated, so robust and roiling in their sweepingly sumptuous ruminations; the aim may be for mystical black metal of a most mid-'90s vintage, but the palpable physicality present here puts Ymir in rarefied company, whether it's past or especially present. Suitably, YMIR create epic screeds which open portals of the imagination and ancient consciousness alike, reverent to the old ways of noble black metal faith but by no means tethered to reductive expression: simply put, YMIR are a black metal band and Ymir is a black metal record, but their collective scope is boundless, brave, and breathing deeply of an essence few are able to grasp in the nowadays scene.

At long last, the full fathom of MOONCITADEL's now-transcendent powers arrives with the band's long-awaited debut album, Night's Scarlet Symphonies. If past MOONCITADEL recordings bore titles evocative of their respective contents, then surely Night's Scarlet Symphonies trumps them all: here is a bountiful feast of splendorous, widescreen black metal mysticism that's reverent of the mid '90s whilst channeling energies new and untold. Everything about MOONCITADEL's debut album - spiraling melodicism, folkloric atmosphere, impassioned performance, engrossing totality - maximizes the duo's previous works to their fullest potential, all threaded together by a never-too-raw soundfield that heightens these elements further. Which is to say nothing of its attendant song titles; over the course of its impossibly vast 47-minute runtime, some of Night's Scarlet Symphonies include "Ablaze My Heart With Falling Stars," "Nightwind was the Passage Between Worlds," "Whispering Cry of Magick Undying," and especially "Monumental Silver Thorns" all conveying this (monumental, silvery, magickal) headspace.

A new modern classic of old mystical black metal has hereby been born with MOONCITADEL's Night's Scarlet Symphonies!

FORHIST is the latest incarnation of Vindsval, the faceless entity behind the legendary BLUT AUS NORD.
Inspired by the ‘90s Norwegian Black Metal scene, FORHIST is purely a raw, intimate and poetic Black Metal act: a solitary walk in deep woods, a haunted dreamworld which exposes the roots of one of the most anomalous protagonists in Black Metal’s history with entrancing cohesion.

Comes in a 6-panel digipack. First batch comes in black polycarbonate CD.

Comes in a 4-panel digipack with a 16-page booklet. First batch comes in black polycarbonate CD. 

A compilation of early WHITE WARD material leading up to their debut record, “Origins” is more than a hint of greater things to come, these nine tracks evincing their own merits through an uncompromisingly despondent blend of stygian atmospheric black metal, post metal, and dark ambient. Moody spoken word and notes of somber jazz recall gloomy walls of rain and the rotting thoroughfares of darkened alleyways in a dismal omnibus which will appeal to die-hard fans and newcomers alike. Opening with a standout re-recording of “Walls”, the first WHITE WARD song ever written, and featuring tracks from the 2012 EP “Illusions” the 2014 split release with SAUROCTONOS and SILENCE OF THE OLD MAN, and the previously unreleased “Riptide” EP, “Origins” offers an unfiltered glimpse into the minds that would eventually craft such masterworks as “Futility Report”, and “Love Exchange Failure”.

After four years of incubation, Swedish death metallers Ablaze My Sorrow have marked February 12th , as the date for their triumphant return. The new full length, entitled Among Ashes and Monoliths, will introduce new vocalist Jonas Udd, whose aggressive rasp fits the passionate band to perfection. The other four members return intact from prior releases. Still fresh sounding in 2020, the band presents us with an opus of impassioned self-reflection, once again tackling themes of depression and self-worth. Across twelve tracks, the band speak catharsis from experience, and the truth of their words are evident. An underrated gem, the Falkenberg quintet once again let their emotional style of Melodic Death Metal do the talking for them.

Mediabook (CD+DVD)

The human race is doomed and only death is real. 2020 was that kind of year. And now, to noisily emphasise that oblivion is definitely coming, the mighty ASPHYX are back with a brand new album and another blizzard of mortality-threatening riffs.

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The human race is doomed and only death is real. 2020 was that kind of year. And now, to noisily emphasise that oblivion is definitely coming, the mighty ASPHYX are back with a brand new album and another blizzard of mortality-threatening riffs.

Jewelcase

Sweden’s kings of gothic, deathly metal have returned with a new album, “Where the Gloom Becomes Sound”.