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As the cold season returns, Hypnotic Dirge Records is proud to announce the brand new studio album by Canadian death doom band Norilsk.

The quartet has assembled a brand new chapter in the band’s discography, building on the characteristics that made Norilsk what it is today while offering something undeniably contemporary. The new album, Antipole, picks up where 2022’s EP Beyond the Mountains left: with its slow doomy riffs, cold melodies, recognizable death growls, and a hint of post-metal atmosphere brought by a dual guitar interplay. While offering rewarding surprises to those who have been following the band since its beginnings, this album is also a major step forward for the band, and an ideal point of entry to anyone new to the band or death doom in general.

Norilsk is known for its unique take on winter doom, where cultures and nordicity provide a backdrop for addressing other deeper concepts such as loss, mental illness, or identity with the land. On its new album Antipole, the artist explores the concept of duality. The album flows between slow and faster songs, and highlights the contrasts in death and doom, with its beauty and tragedy, harshness and fragility, light and darkness, reality and fiction, and its gravity and ethereality.

Originally released in 2017 and out of print for many years, NONE's selftitled debut quickly left a mark upon dsbm listeners and was the beginning of a run of consistent high-quality releases culminating in the final album "Inevitable". From the opening notes of NONE's debut, a chilling and despondent atmosphere enveloped the listener weaving piercing guitars with haunting synth pads and minimalist melodies

The fourth and final pressing of NONE's selftitled album is now available, released for the first time alongside unreleased reimaginings of the first two songs that became NONE

With Hesperia, his second album, Kval delivers a more intimate piece — without compromising the universal scope of his vision.

In conversation with figures such as Ernst Jünger, Hermann Hesse, Jean Cau, and David Engels, the album is a love letter to his continent of origin: Europe, which he chooses to rename Hesperia, as the Ancients once did.

This record celebrates the primal magic of European paganism alongside the beauty and truth of Christianity. It strives for a reconciliation between these two foundational poles of European identity — an immersion into its light, its grandeur, and its melancholy. From the anti-modern epic Waldgänger to the mystical stillness of Lux Meae, Morte France delivers a more luminous record here — one marked by hope and vital impulse, without ever renouncing the project’s original radicalism.

Liminal Sky is the new creative chapter for acclaimed producer Jaime Gomez Arellano (Ghost, Ulver, Opeth, Paradise Lost) and musician Daniel Knight, who previously played together in the band Messenger (UK). Written and recorded in isolation at Orgone Studios, their debut album All Tomorrow’s Darkness transforms grief, insomnia and the bleak stillness of the English countryside into widescreen, melancholic post-rock.

At the heart of the album is Mat McNerney (Hexvessel, Beastmilk/Grave Pleasures), whose recent loss of his mother deepened the record’s emotional honesty. Joined by a striking cast of Nordic collaborators including Kristoffer Rygg, Karin Park, Daniel O’Sullivan, Lars Horntveth, Alicia Nurho, Anders Møller, Tore Ylwizaker, Ole Alexander Halstensgård, and Matt Rozeik, each adding atmosphere without altering the album’s singular, desolate vision.

OFFICIALL REISSUE

OFFICIAL REISSUE

Six keys opened six doors, and their poison crept into our world.

Five years has passed since the doors of perdition were opened with the release of Escumergament’s debut studio album ...ni degu fazentz escumergamënt e mesorga..., and now it is time to explore the corrupted wastelands at these entrances.

Apparebat Eidolon Senex speaks of anger, resignation and misfortune. A glimpse into the smoldering ruins of temples and oceans filled with corpses. Of haunting spirits and mad gods. Of betrayal and unfathomable loss. Seven songs where the demon appears at different places depending on time, place and intent.

Just like ...ni degu fazentz escumergamënt e mesorga..., Apparebat Eidolon Senex was recorded in the Chapel of the Wanderers on old and unpredictable equipment during days and nights of storms and torment.

These spells of uncompromising black metal are designed to curse and bring ruin.

Three years after The Necrotrophic Abyss, Australian one-man band Snorlax is back to wreak havoc.

Brendan Auld’s signature style, blending death metal with an oppressive and obscure black metal vibe takes a turn towards the lands of grindcore, both musically and conceptually.

Toxic Current is the new studio album by the multi-instrumentalist from Brisbane, and it comes with two covers from Australian grind and hardcore bands, Agents Of Abhorrence and The Fevered. To those familiar with Auld’s work, particularly Snorlax, these influences have always been part of his art, but never to such a clear extent.