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What would be the combination / hybride  of Infernal Majesty and Blasphemy, two leading and intense extreme metal bands from Canada. And both are responsible for mile-stone albums in their genres. Well, when ex Infernal Majesty vocalist Brian Langley (also ex-Aggression, Canada) and guitar player Marco Banco (known as ‘The Traditional Sodomizer of the Goddess of Perversity’ from the cult Blasphemy album Fallen Angel of Doom....) joined to form band called Tyrants Blood, you will get close. This blasting death / black / trash metal band featuring Blasphemy / Infernal Majesty ex members released three full length albums and a handful of splits and ep’s. Vicrecords now re-issued the initially limited edition self-released third album ‘Into the Kingdom of Graves’ originally from 2013. Cover-art by Paolo Girardi (Firespawn, Aeon, Inquisition and Manilla Road) and liner notes by Brian Langley. Guest bass and mixed and produced by Martin Meyer (ex-Aggression, ex-Disciples of Power). Drums recorded by Terry "Sho" Murray (Infernal Majesty, 3 Inches of Blood).

For their new album, bassist/vocalist Dylan Desmond and drummer/vocalist Jesse Shreibman exploded Bell Witch's bounds. Like 2017's lauded “Mirror Reaper”, “The Clandestine Gate” is a single 83-minute track -- a composition that pulses and breathes on a filmic timeframe. It constitutes the first chapter in a planned triptych of longform albums, collectively called “Future's Shadow.”

While traces of organ and synthesizer hovered over “Mirror Reaper” and Bell Witch's 2020 collaboration with Aerial Ruin, “Stygian Bough Volume 1”, “The Clandestine Gate” drew those instruments closer to the center of its compositions. The band reunited with their longtime producer Billy Anderson as they began negotiating these new compositional weights. On “The Clandestine Gate”, Bell Witch's twinned voices build off of the chantlike textures of previous records while steering toward more developed melodic lines, structured harmonies, and rhythmic death metal growls.

The immense gravity of a work like “The Clandestine Gate”, which features exclusive stunning cover art by Jordi Diaz Alama, allows ideas to simmer in a way that feels profoundly and somatically intuitive -- not just a philosophical exercise, but an embodied truth. By slowing down both their creative process and the tempo of the music itself, Bell Witch digs even deeper into their long-standing focus: the way life spills on inside its minuscule container, both eternal and fleeting, a chord that echoes without resolution.

Registrato tra il 2014 e il 2019 in vari concerti della band in USA, Europa e Australia, ‘Trouble And Their Double Lives’ è prodotto, mixato e masterizzato da Scott Atkins ai Grindstone Studios di Suffolk (UK).

La release conterrà inoltre due nuove tracce in studio: ‘She is a Fire’ e ‘Demon Prince Regent’.

Jewelcase

Collector's Edition in 4-panel digipack with 8-page booklet.

Midnight Betrothed (AUS) presents its second full-length album, "Death...My Faithful Bride", containing six new tracks of dark romanticism in praise of moonlit tragedy and forlorn love.

Fronted by The Seer (Lament in Winter's Night, Vrörsaath etc.), Midnight Betrothed further refines its unique blend of 'Sombre Romantic Black Metal' throughout this sophomore album, bringing forth overtures of funeral erotica and deathly fantasia.

Reissue of the band's fantastic debut album from 1999 with original artwork and revised layout including all lyrics, extensive liner notes and many photos from the early days.

The CD comes as Collector's Edition in 4-panel digipack with 8-page booklet, limited to 500 copies, and includes the "Rabenflug" demo from 1996 as exclusive bonus tracks.

"Reign of Tempests" is a genuine classic of German Melodic/Symphonic Black Metal and an absolute must have for all fans of this genre. Pure 90s nostalgia!!

Both album and demo were meticulously restored and remastered for optimal sound on CD as well as vinyl by Patrick W. Engel at Temple of Disharmony in 2022.

Re-released with kind permission from DIES ATER and now available for the first time ever on vinyl and as DigiCD with the original artwork!

Reissue of the band's brilliant second album from 1998 with original artwork & sound, and layout only adjusted to the 8-panel digipack format, under exclusive license from Napalm Records.

"Provenance of Cruelty" is the second album of Mactätus, originally released by Napalm Records in late 1998. At the time of its release the hype for Scandinavian Black Metal in general and Symphonic and Melodic Black Metal in particular was already declining, following milestones such as Emperor's "In the Nightside Eclipse", Dimmu Borgir's "Stormblåst", Mörk Gryning's "Tusen år har gått", Gehenna's "Second Spell" or Limbonic Art's "Moon in the Scorpio". The result was that at the time of their release in late 1998 equally brilliant Symphonic Black Metal albums such as Odium's "The Sad Realm of the Stars" or Mactätus' "Provenance of Cruelty" were not as appreciated by a majority of fans as the earlier classics before them and remained a bit obscure and underrated for quite some time. While that changed later for Odium's debut album when it gained the underground cult status it deserves, "Provenance of Cruelty" somewhat suffered from the added drawback of being released by a label that at the time was already more focused on Gothic Metal, and also not necessarily one of the "cult" labels of the time. This, however, is definitely an album that belongs in every Symphonic or Melodic Black Metal collection and fans of the aforementioned albums should definitely check it out if they don't know it yet!

Comes in a 4-panel Digisleeve with glossy cover; no booklet, no lyrics.
Track durations do not appear on the release.

Recorded live at Ancienne Belique,Brussels BE

Tracks 1-8 recorded and mixed live at AB Brussels BE and De Kreun, Kortyrijk BE
Mastered at Angström Studio Brussels, BE.

"Het Dorp" recorded at Jetson / CCR Studio, Marke / Zulte BE
"Razoreater" recorded at Hearse Studio, Heule BE
Mixed and mastered by Chris Common, TX US

Consouling Sounds 2016
Made in Belgium

Track 4 "Parabol" originally appears on "Lateralus".
Track 10 "Het Dorp" originally appears on "De Zotte Morgen".

4the pressing, now in digipack CD

Let the moonclad twilight veil the forests once again!

Moonlight Sorcery is a Finnish black metal trio formed in early 2018. The band’s black metal is a symphonic and melodic variety by nature. Inspired by many black metal classics as well as classic heavy metal and melodic death metal, the band indeed has a huge palette of influences, which is directly reflected in the versatility of the song material.

Piercing Through the Frozen Eternity, the band first EP, was worked on as the icy winds blew and winter did its magic. In all the peace and quiet. The silver-saturated nights of the moon rushed to the melodies that breathe sorrow and the eternal majesty of the cold stars.

Comes in digipak.
It comes with a 12-page booklet.
Track #13 is a CD only bonus track.

Vampyroteuthis Infernalis is the last of its kind
The encounter with the creepiest of creatures
The descent into the abyssal void
Vampyroteuthis Infernalis is your most anchored fear
Your deepest unconscious trauma
Your scariest nightmare
The unknown

Creepy, oppressive black metal, built on a muffled, suffocating sound, distant horrifying screams and furious drumming, will helplessly drag you down into the most hostile place on earth: the abyss.