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After the lucky "Usurp The Throne", well-reviewed and extensively played on tour, UBUREN are back with a new harsh, unrelenting strain of black metal full of the usual viking metal edge. Once again, in the new batch of songs their sound sits cold and atmospheric, raw and haunting, built on tremolo-driven riffing in the best tradition of the second-wave black metal. Nonetheless, the underlying melody is never completely lost, highlighting melancholic passages that give the songs a Majestic weight.

Formed in 2010 in Sandnes, Rogaland, Uburen took shape around a shared obsession with Norse mythology and old Norwegian culture — a mutual ideology of resurfacing viking folklore through music built to be felt as much as heard. Following a lineup change in late 2019, Uburen entered the studio with new drummer Wrage Steinarson for what would become 2023's "Usurp the Throne" — an eight-track opus marking a new highpoint for the band. Cold, atmospheric and uncompromising, the album stood as Uburen's most fully realized record up to that point. The new opus, "Dødsdans I Aske", promises to raise the bar even higher.

Your patience will be rewarded.

Chile’s Ripper returns with their first full-length since 2016’s “Experiment of Existence”.

“Towards Rebirth” contains the band’s most violent work to date. Razor sharp guitar work, intense drumming and well-crafted songs are still there…only more concise, more vicious.

Recorded, mixed and mastered by Pablo Clares at DM6 Studio. Artwork by Paolo Girardi.

Infinitude’s Passage marks the third full length statement from Portland’s death metal seers Aenigmatum. Taking the intricate mastery of previous album Deconsecrate as a point of departure, the band’s union of technical precision, dark melody and unrelenting force draw us ever further into a world where revelation and annihilation become indistinguishable.

Sudden turns, fractured rhythms and spiraling harmonies color a landscape of seemingly elaborate complexity, yet Aenigmatum are serving a larger, deeper structure with an exacting sense of purpose and focus. Frenetic eruptions of speed give way to passages of melodious clarity and dissonant turbulence allowing the compositions to remain in constant motion and expand idiosyncratically upward and outward.

Cerebral without sacrificing physical impact, majestic without surrendering menace and progressive without loosening its vigorous command, Infinitude’s Passage rejects easy categorization within death metal’s exceedingly vast parameters. Its visceral impact, incandescent melody and aura of perpetual discovery places Aenigmatum at the threshold of the boundless.

In a world increasingly shaped by disposable content, Chat Pile answer with something defiantly real and organic, a mentality that permeates Who Loves The Sun, their third full-length record. Since the band’s formation just over six years ago, the Oklahoma City-based quartet Chat Pile has grown from a scrappy passion project into one of the defining heavy acts to emerge from the 2020s underground. Ray B. (vocals), L. Manhole (guitar), Stin (bass), and Cap’n Ron (drums) create a crushing, crass, and cathartic take on noise rock that captures a raw, undeniably human essence in an age marked by technological overreach and the cold state of society. Nothing about Who Loves The Sun feels synthetic.

Whereas their debut album God’s Country depicted a particularly American flavor of dread, and the follow up Cool World showed a cruel planet defined by global systemic violence, Who Loves The Sun peels the skin back on how collective indifference defines this new century. Spanning imagery of coastlines devouring cities, dead-end jobs, and submission to data-driven inauthenticity, the album dissects the apathy-bloated state of 21st-century existence as a slow-motion apocalypse.

Official reissue of Kampfar's second full-length album, “Fra Underverdenen”, originally released in 1999. A darker descent into the ancient spirit of the North. Cold riffs, haunting melodies and fierce vocals create an atmosphere steeped in Norse mythology and the mysteries of the underworld. Where ancient myths awaken in the shadows.

Released in a 6-panel Digipak edition, including an 8-page booklet, strictly limited to 500 copies.

KAMPFAR (Nor) -Mellom Skogkledde Aaser- DIGI-CD 
Official reissue of the legendary Kampfar debut album, “Mellom Skogkledde Åser”, originally released in 1997. More than a debut, this is a document of an era: cold, majestic and untouched by time. A powerful blend of primitive Black Metal, Pagan atmosphere and deeply rooted Nordic heritage. A timeless monument of the old Norwegian darkness.

Released in a 6-panel Digipak edition, including an 8-page booklet, strictly limited to 500 copies.

The Long-Awaited 4th Chapter of Despair from Finland’s DSBM Masters MORTUALIA!!!

Emerging once again from the endless darkness of Finland, MORTUALIA returns with its haunting fourth full-length album, “Cold in the Earth.” Spearheaded by the enigmatic Shatraug, the revered mastermind behind Horna and Sargeist, MORTUALIA continues its descent into the abyss with a work steeped in sorrow, isolation, and hypnotic melancholy. Following the acclaimed “Wild, Wild Misery,” this newest offering further refines the band’s signature fusion of depressive black metal and mournful doom into a cold, emotionally devastating experience.

Across seven desolate hymns, including the crushing title track “Cold in the Earth,” the somber passages of “Remembrance I & II,” and the bleakly mesmerizing “Winter’s Due,” MORTUALIA conjures an atmosphere of hopelessness and spiritual ruin unlike few others in the genre. Shatraug’s masterful songwriting once again balances raw black metal aggression with slow-burning funeral dirges, weaving memorable melodies and sorrow-drenched hooks into every shadowed corner of the album.

Dark, introspective, and utterly consuming, “Cold in the Earth” stands as another towering achievement in MORTUALIA’s discography - a bleak monument to misery forged by one of black metal’s most distinctive and enduring creative forces.