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Nietzsche's Zarathustra created the mountain beneath him where he could only teach himself. He went down among the people in this infinite joy. But still he returned and plunged into the Gogolian depths of desperation. He left his work to the world, just as Gogol let the dead souls be lost among the flames. Joy and loneliness were both present on the mountain, where Zarathustra finally found nothing but himself.

‘All Stillborn Fires, Lick my Heart!’ is truly a ride of ups and downs, a journey of lunacy, unpredictable, diverse and grand in its simplicity; classic Kringa in other words.

Although nothing new under the black sun, the band has taken everything just a step further, naturally after 13 years of existence. Dare I say this is their best work to date? I do. And I will! Layered with manic riffing, howls and screams, intensity and viciousness, the album takes you to places you dared not dream even existed.

The creative centers of Obsequiae and Inexorum come together as one in the preeminent new force known as Majesties. To those familiar with the individual pieces that make up Majesties, the sound on debut album ‘Vast Reaches Unclaimed’ will be another striking addition to their respective oeuvres, recalling the glorious days of Wrong Again and No Fashion Records.

Evoking a time when Gothenburg was starting to unseat Stockholm as the unimpeachable city for Swedish Death Metal in the mind of the international metal scene, Majesties have that intrinsic sense of Death Metal’s rabid intensity and the effortlessly satisfying melodic ability that made albums like ‘The Jester Race’ and its immediate forbears instant classics. The mix of major key melodies and twin guitar harmonies snaking through every track ornament the vigorous riff eruptions and anguished vocals in a sheen of gleaming brilliance that proves an exhilarating triumph to behold.

Without a hint of the corruption the style experienced in a post ‘Slaughter of the Soul’ world, ‘Vast Reaches Unclaimed’ exists as a fervent reminder of what was and what again shall be. Majesties are re-animating the corpse of the true Melodic Death Metal style that both divided and invigorated the Death Metal scene of the mid 1990s and bring it into 2023 like it never left, sounding as novel and thrilling as ever

third press .................... Jewelcase edition 03/2023

With their sophomore album Imperative Imperceptible Impulse, Ad Nauseam took a step forward in terms of composition, musical structures and sound. Music is not intended as a mere sequence of riffs that sounds well one after the other, but is now a naturally ordered structure where almost every musical event refers to the past and/or predicts the future, generating very layered and complex patterns dominated by polyphony and polyrhythms and where each instrument has its own role and is essential in the whole. The music represents a merging of many different styles, the most prominent ones being extreme death/black metal, avantgarde, jazz, post-core, doom/sludge and ambient. 

The composition process of Imperative Imperceptible Impulse has been heavily influenced by 20th century classical composers like Stravinsky, Šostakóvič, Xenakis, Scelsi, Penderecki and Ligeti, to name a few. Both the concepts of harmony and melody have been put into discussion to get a music where harmony is obtained by means of disharmony and melody by dissonances. To push this method even further, a unique tuning system has been conceived, to allow a new harmonic vocabulary and to eradicate the players from the comfort zone of the usual melodic patterns every guitar/bass player is used to.

Project of Lord Vrăjitor (Warmoon Lord, Old sorcery)

Gone are the days of high adventure, but there are portals and webways that cross paths with our mundane lives. Prepare your journey to the war-torn, magical and baroque world of Argenthorns!

A new, mysterious, symphonic black metal project from the land of the thousand lakes will take you on an epic cloak and dagger adventure. Argenthorns is the solo endeavor of Mason Rofocale, multi-instrumentalist and narrator of our tale, who will recount unspeakable perils and obscure enemies. A quest was laid, and The Ravening marks the first chapter of Mason Rofocale’s occult chronicle through lands unknown!

A black metal tale told the way it used in the ‘90s, with piercing screams, fascinating keyboards and icy cold riffs, for fans of (early) Dimmu Borgir, Bal-Sagoth, Odium and Limbonic Art.

ISON new album! Digipak CD with booklet

Immaculate Hearts Will Triumph is the third full length by Atmospheric/Post-Black Metal band Great Cold Emptiness. It is also the final part in "The Becoming of a Man" trilogy.

This is an album about forgiveness and companionship among friends. An album about understanding the self, and its place in the modern world, as well as the reminder that you are never truly alone. It is an album about the triumph of the heart and overcoming the most difficult stages in a man's life: him finally leaving home.

Thy Darkened Shade's third full length album, Liber Lvcifer II-Mahapralaya, coming as Hardcover Digibook CD.

Emerging from the un-silent crypt, after over a year of strife and plague, Oppressive Descent unleashes the new full length LP, “Spite Is My Scepter, Blood Is My Crown”. Eight new hymns of grim hostility, longing for the cold reaches of eternity and the grisly battles of the past. This new offering encapsulates all the hallmarks of previous Oppressive Descent releases, while building on the grandeur and desolation that Grond Nefarious has invoked through the years. There is no reprieve from the chilling contempt contained within these sonic chambers, yet one will ultimately find the true catharsis in the exaltation of death which is thus brought forth. Desperate, yet triumphant are these chants of the night. Freezing and forlorn, as they herald the winds of war.