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25 years after their first collective effort - the neo-classical ambient recordings that would eventually appear on Urfaust’s ground-breaking release ‘Geist ist Teufel’ - IX and DOLEN are once again re-defining their creative landscape under a new moniker:
M3†H ΔSSΔSSIN.

Combining their life-long fascination with 80s industrial acts such as GGFH and Skinny Puppy with modern subgenres such as witch house, horrorcore, while remaining deeply rooted in the black metal movement of the last millennium, they are again exploring new sonic extremes. ‘The Reptilian Side of God’ is a relentless and dystopian tour de force, demonstrating a total lack of respect for stylistic boundaries and conventions. It is a musical aberration, a freak project, if you will – cold and bleak – with powerful, pulsating basses, devastating drums and harsh synth leads, supplemented by the intense vocal performance of Urfaust’s IX – ushering the listener into uncharted and hitherto unknown territories.

M3†H ΔSSΔSSIN’s ‘The Reptilian Side of God’ presents a claustrophobic vision of a world about to end; nihilistic in its intent, raw, pure and precise in its execution. It is the final death growl of a disillusioned era – infused with demons, eagerly awaiting the triumphant return of The Eternal Adversary.

Cd in jewel case.
4 pages booklet with lyrics
The front cover has been made by Vhan Artworks & Printing
Limited to 500 copies by Ars Macabra Audio

Collector's Edition in Digipack with 16-page booklet, limited to 999 copies.

Bilwis is a Melodic Black Metal solo-project from Germany. The concept of Bilwis comprises old European fairy tales and myths, clothing them in a garment of raw, yet melodic and atmospheric Black Metal with German lyrics - a journey to the world of forgotten dreams, wolves, ghosts, dwarfs, mermaids, trolls, elves, vampires & giants.

Collector's Edition in 6-panel Digipack, limited to 300 copies.

Mirthquell, one of the projects of the man behind the American Dungeon Synth label Dungeons Deep Records (also Diplodocus and others), is a true homage to the dungeon synth greats.

Awakening primitive synths, Mirthquell paints an essence of nostalgia akin to artists such as Depressive Silence, Solanum, Mournlord and the like.

The symphonic metal masters THERION around mastermind Christofer Johnsson belong to the spearheads of orchestral metal since their 1996 album "Theli".

In the early history of the band, however, they were more on dark death metal paths. The three albums: "Beyond Sanctorum" (1992), Symphony Masses: Ho Drakon Ho Megas" (1993) and "Lepaca Kliffoth" (1995) are released as remastered CD reissues via Hammerheart.

A Heavy Dark Occult metal album, spectacular in its uniqueness. Invoke the Dragon! With original artwork.

This is the kind of album that showed the boundaries of Death Metal were not completely explored, as Therion had already partially shown on their previous Death Metal albums where they were one the unique few bands that combined Death Metal with keyboards. On the other hand this album showed that Therion had progressed out of the Death Metal stage where they had gotten the fame of being original within the boundaries of the genre, while still keeping a lot of the elements that were being heard on the previous effort.

This third album deals with various occult rites and occult subjects, as reflected in the song-titles. The content itself could best be described as ‘Dark Occult Metal’. It’s not Death Metal, not heavy metal, and not exactly a mix either. This album takes a lot of elements from the previous album, and introduces a number of new elements, a lot of which would return on the following albums.

This is the kind of album that you will like if you like anything symphonic, bombastic, and/or anything with a tad of occult atmosphere. Therion doesn’t need an orchestra or opera singers to sound like Therion. “Symphony Masses” does not need this to sound symphonic in its own twisted way. You do not even have to be deep into Death Metal to enjoy this little gem.

Hammerheart Records, 180g black vinyl, Faithfully restored from the original master and artwork, featuring the original artwork, The dawn of Symphonic Therion glooming at the horizon, yet still drenched in Dark Metal execution! Though it was their fourth full-length, and we had been given a sampling of their symphonic/gothic direction with ?Symphony Masses: Ho Drakon Ho Megas?, ?Lepaca Kliffoth? might remain the most memorable masterpiece of the band?s career along the follow-up ?Theli?. A transitional phase between the band?s Death Metal roots and the hybrid of symphonic, gothic metal which they would carry forward for the rest of their career. This is an extremely dark album. The band retains their fascination with obscure occult magick and prophecies within the lyrics, and the music revolves around killer mid-paced Metal riffs drenched in the vocal libations of Christofer Johnsson. The album starts off strongly with ?The Wings of the Hydra?, and from there on the serpent has snaked about your spine. An addictive piece with an obvious Celtic Frost influence, chanting vocals, simple synth tones and arabesque guitar melodies which evoke the mythical age of the song?s namesake. The album?s ?hit single?, ?The Beauty in Black? is glorious and gothic, it uses a pair of operatic vocalists (male and female), a sort of predecessor to the revolving door of guest musicians the band would use on their later albums. Other excellent tracks include the charging ?Riders of Theli?, the crushing doom of ?Black? which would have fit almost perfectly on ?Into the Pandemonium?. The rest of the album is equally dark and enchanting, with other standouts being the title track and ?Evocation of Vovin?. Synthesizers, flutes multiple vocalists, and the core of the band are all clear and precise throughout, yet it still carries a very raw and dark, ominous tone to it which trumps the later studio efforts. This may not be quite as symphonic as many Therion fans demand of their material in recent years, but it clearly marks the point where this band transformed from a innovative Death Metal aand into the Gods of Gothic Metal. There are very few parallels to something like this, and it belongs in the collection of any fan of quality Occult Metal.

Reissue on CD with slipcase

THE DEBUT STUDIO ALBUM OF EERIE DEATH/DOOM METAL DEPRAVITY FROM GREG WILKINSON AND CHRIS REIFERT OF US GORELORDS, AUTOPSY

Static Abyss is the new mouthpiece for a rotten age consisting of the duo of Greg Wilkinson (Guitars/bass) & Chris Reifert (drums/vocals), both members of legendary American masters of sickness Autopsy, with Greg (also of cult act Deathgrave) recently welcomed as new bass player for the long-running US act’s next studio opus and beyond.

Static Abyss’ debut studio album, ‘Labyrinth of Veins’, presents an unnerving, multi-layered eerie concoction of dirty doom and death, including themes exploring the echoes of insanity manifested through human existence. The result; a sinister onslaught of at times slow and bludgeoning brutal metal whilst at others whipped into a storm of chaotic vile hysterics. The spirit of Autopsy is at times present in the truly titanic riffs swathed in chilling atmospheric guitar leads, whilst Chris’ seemingly bottomless pit of morbid inspiration from the dark & twisted corners of life permeate the release with his highly distinguishable delivery to further the descent into madness.
 

A four band split digi CD representing the four seasons
Featuring atmospheric black metal artists Dismalimerence, Nurez, olim, and The Wolf Garden

A mystical and abysmal journey into the most hidden enigmas of our universe. From Mesopotamia to Ireland, from China to North America, our planet is strewn with megalithic structures united by a terrible and apocalyptic design that is lost in the mists of time. “Nebra” tells all this with an extremely particular vision, combining Black Metal, Avantgarde and Dark Ambient in a mix as hypnotic and devastating as it is intricate and disturbing; a one of a kind musical journey that is intertwined in four very long songs full of hidden messages and encrypted codes to decipher. An album to be appreciated also visually through a visionary artwork that introduces us to the delusional world of OMEGA.