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Linnea Hjertén’s second album, “Steg för steg” (‘Step by Step’), offers both continuation and departure. It extends the ritual ambient and folk foundations of “Nio systrar” while opening new paths through lyrics and expanded instrumentation. Each track feels like a threshold: a step deeper into vulnerability, a step further into the unknown.

Traditional instruments anchor the record without confining it. Nyckelharpa and moraharpa – especially in minor modes and long, sighing notes – draw out a distinctly Swedish melancholy. Hjertén favours old tools in new contexts: keeping traditions alive, connecting to those who came before, and working with what the land provides.

Layers of voice carry the emotional weight; arrangements bloom from drones, framedrum pulse, and the hush between tones. Hjertén also draws on kulning, the ancient Nordic herding call, which rises briefly in pieces such as “Blodmåne” and “Alltet är intet”, reshaped through her own expression.

She records and mixes everything herself, ensuring an intimacy that seeps through every tone. Minimal means, maximal presence. Songs carried by breath and purpose rather than studio sheen. The result is folk-rooted Nordic ambient that places essence over ornament: step by step, surrender by surrender.

It must be said asap: AzVs, the mastermind behind DAUGHTERS OF SOPHIA, choose to end his life on October 16th 2024. Flowing Downward, the label, received the whole album a few months before his death and was given freedrom upon its release. It is thus in memory of a gentle but tormented soul that we releases this album.

Titled "(4.0°) Tsalmaweth", this is the fourth album of the French Atmospheric Post-Black Metal project DAUGHTERS OF SOPHIA. Following the formula of long songs centered around excellently melodic riffs and solos, fast rhythms and shaded vocals, this album displays a certain crystalline, epic but haunted atmosphere throughout the whole length.

Wave after wave, song after song, this challenging album unveils its curse and its beauty all together. The sound of eerie, sick and morbid vocals intertwines with the melodic quality of the guitarswork, sometimes uplifting sometimes almost sinister, releasing a certain degree of emotive contrast. Demons meet lifeforce.

With lyrics dwelving in anti-nomianism, left-hand-path philosophies and Japanese literature, this sense that haunts the whole album finds explanation.

For fans of: Lantlôs, An Autumn for Crippled Children, Falaise, Lascar, Blut Aus Nord.

Following the first volume 2022 EP, the new APRS album "Radio Nocturna Vol.2: Voces del pasado" helps you to tune into harmony, deliverance and your best emotional answer to fear, pain, disappointment and regret. Transformation stands where two opposites meet: interwining the rawness and charge of Atmospheric Post-Black Metal with uplifting harmonies, APRS grants you a tune in emotional intensity with redemption as only possible outcome.

For fans of: Alcest, Violet Cold, Olhava, Skyforest, Lantlôs.

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SUN OF THE DYING is a Spanish Doom/Death Metal band based in Madrid. Inspired by genre classics like My Dying Bride, Anathema, and Paradise Lost, as well as more modern bands such as Ahab, Swallow the Sun or Shape of Despair, SUN OF THE DYING walks the path of authentic Doom/Death Metal, unafraid to incorporate touches from many other styles.
The band was founded in 2013 by Casuso (guitar) and Lavín (vocals), and reached a stable lineup in 2017. That same year, they released their debut album, The Roar of the Furious Sea, through Throats Productions.
With the new lineup established and extensive live experience, they recorded their second album, The Earth Is Silent, at The Empty Hall Studios. It was released in November 2019 through AOP Records. The album’s positive reception led the band to play throughout Spain, until the pandemic forced a temporary retreat from the stage. They returned to live performances sharing the stage with major acts like Sylvaine, Officium Triste and Evadne, and they reached the finals of the Wacken Metal Battle for the second time.

„Tempelschlaf" is THE RUINS OF BEVERAST's seventh full-length output and sees the band carrying on their sonic morbidity, noises and melodies of a human habitat in its sunset era, while maintaining and refining the widescreen low end that has been sustaining their sound almost from the beginning.

On the instrumental side, „Tempelschlaf" is stripped of quite some abdominal fat, forging the songs with a reduction in length and layers, cautiously leaning towards the stage part of things. Still, TROB's main discipline, the cineastic incarnation of audial nightmares, is omnipresent on the album. While synths and samples have always been playing a bizarrely adamant role in TROB's sound, they reach yet another level of psychedelia and insanity on „Tempelschlaf".

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CD 1 contains the album "Sea Of Dreams".
CD 2 contains the album "Shadow's Dance".