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An album where i got the honor to work (on track 1, 2, 3, 5 & 6) with Revenant Noctis (Ger) from Sarkrista, Order of Nosferat, Velmorth and Siechknecht

In late 2024, AINZAMKAIT delivered their bolt-from-the-blue debut album, Was des Lebens nicht wert. The work of one Grymnir der Zornige, AINZAMKAIT's moniker is a linguistic twist on the German "Einsamkeit," which is loneliness in English - and fittingly, that's exactly what he delivered, offering a righteous new twist on Teutonic black metal.

Proving that was no fluke, AINZAMKAIT return under the banner of PURITY THROUGH FIRE with Fluch des Nachzehrers. Sonically, on first blush, this second album is built upon the same foundation as the debut: riffs that are hypnotically melancholic yet also strangely triumphant, a slow-burning approach to pacing, and Grymnir der Zornige's full-throated rasp elevating everything safely beyond DSBM dross. However, where that first album conveyed a certain hooliganism latent to the best German black metal, here do AINZAMKAIT soar on cosmic wings high into the night, raised up on synths that are even more ethereal than that no-less-considerable debut; indeed, one need only translate this album's title as well as ponder the cover art to perceive their nocturnal trajectory. Strangely enough, the eight tracks comprising Fluch des Nachzehrers are more compact this time around but somehow sound even more expansive: the destination might be the same, but the route to get there has been altered slightly - and compellingly, vampirically so. With new drummer Geyst des Wüterichs likewise providing livelier color, AINZAMKAIT continue their noble march...the curse awakens!

A project of Ungod (SAD / NECROHELL/ BLOODMOON ECLIPSE) and Throne (HOR)
in the vein of BERGRIZEN, AASKEREIA

Formed in 2011 in Bergen, A.H.P. are something of a "dark horse" within Norwegian black metal: their sound isn't Norwegian Black Metal Exclusively, and band founder / songwriter Gulnar originally hails from Poland. However, being something an outlier has made A.H.P. all the more unique. From palatably varied songwriting to a more mechanistic soundwall, from tastefully unexpected cover-song choices to even-more-varied lineups, A.H.P. follow their own path, forged in fire, ice, and iron will.

Now, a full decade since their Against Human Plague debut album, A.H.P. return to reassert those unique virtues with Alltid Imot Deg. Comprising five songs in 41 minutes, A.H.P.'s second album is indeed more epic-minded than the first, each song creating a shapeshifting vortex where four separate vocalists narrate foul deeds and filthy states of the soul; among those guests are Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult's Onielar. Gulnar rises to the occasion with songwriting that's by turns stealthy, hypnotic, schizophrenic, and thuggish - but always, ALWAYS, is there an ever-building fountain of cold & crunching violence. That A.H.P.'s soundwall retains their elder Moonfoggy-mechanistic feel whilst emitting a sort of delirious humanity only makes Alltid Imot Deg all the more compelling - and, always again, all the more unique. Still, the best is saved for last with the 15-minute title track, which is an awe-inspiring maw of impossibly alluring darkness; you will DROWN in this. 

Hieron's debut album „From the Temple to the Grave“ offers a lamentation leading into a vortex of doubt, hopelessness, and madness - through fog, past old forgotten graves, through cold stone walls and vaults, toward a purifying fire and vast nothingness, where salvation never comes. A Tale told in six Acts of relentless melodic black metal.

CIRCULAR RUIN is the ever-recurring end of everything once great, the endless cycle of temporary prosperity followed by death and devastation, and the inevitable demise of humanity by its own hand.

Hybris Divina, the debut full-length from Oraculum, is a merciless assault and a sonic damnation. The title, signifying "Divine Transgression," guides the album's thematic descent into mythical and spiritual blasphemy. This record is a raw and chaotic maelstrom, delivering bludgeoning riffs, dissonant textures, and unholy invocations that return to the genre's forgotten primordial essence. It is a testament to the enduring, chaotic legacy of Chilean death metal—a calculated and feral vortex of sound. Hybris Divina is set to establish Oraculum as the modern standard-bearer for the most uncompromising, first-wave death metal sound.

TRANSILVANIA returns with "Magia Posthuma", an unholy necromantic spell of black/thrash metal. A deliberate, high-production assault from the emptied crypts of Austria, this is the definitive soundtrack to a post-mortem existence. The band delivers a blistering combination of vampiric fury, the raw, driving spirit of classic thrash, and the chilling, cold atmosphere of black metal.

CD re-issue of the fifth full-length from one of the most important bands to emerge from the Brazilian underground Black and Death Metal scene!

Upon its inception in 1989, Brazilian band MYSTIFIER created an aggressive, fast, and malignant sound within the classic black metal style which makes them veterans of their scene. MYSTIFIER's profane and primeval metal reigns true, and has outlasted three decades of trends and turmoil. 'Protogoni Mavri Magiki Dynasteia' is another spearhead in their renewed assault, with a cover art created by Paolo Girardi (INQUISITION).

Recommended if you like: BEHERIT, BLASPHEMY, SARCOFAGO

CD reissue of the classic second full-length from from the Italian black-doom metal icons, CULTUS SANGUINE.

Combining elements of doom, goth, and black metal, Italy's Cultus Sanguine released a pair of well-regarded albums in the 1990s (Shadows Blood and The Sum of All Fears) before ceasing operations in 2001. After reconvening as a live entity in 2018, the band returned to the studio and completed their third long-player, Dust Once Alive. 

Recommended if you like: Bethlehem, Deinonychus, Abysmal Grief