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This is the solo project by Uada founding member and guitarist James Sloan, a kaleidoscopic black metal creature deeply rooted in the depressive black metal sounds of the Nineties.
The Sorcerer’s Sorrow is Anachitis very debut, where obscure, minimal synths pave the way for obsessive guitar riffs and desperate shrieks recounting a tale of despair and self destruction. In Sloan’s words, “There is an underlying story here being told backwards of someone who desperately seeks answers to escape the pain of existence through esoteric practices, but finds nothing but a path to total self destruction”.

Limited edition (100), Sound Cave exclusive, on ultra clear vinyl.

Void Paradigm call their black metal dodecatonic, as they often rely on a twelve-scale composition technique, a method of composing with twelve tones which are related only with one another developed in the early XX Century. As Julien Payan, the band main composer, puts it: “As I try to experiment new ways of making black metal, I sometimes write the music literally on the desk and not searching for riffs on the guitar. I have a classical composition education so I try to compose like this, writing before playing, in order to break the automatic riffing and to try and go somewhere else”.
“Ultime Pulsation”, the ultimate pulse, “evokes the unavoidable fall towards this final pulse of the world, of humanity, of civilisation, which seems to get closer and closer. “Demain Brûle” is "Tomorrow Burns", a personification which becomes something or someone hostile, unsafe, hazardous. Such are the feelings Void Paradigm bring into their music, a forceful, rabid and yet educated black metal. 

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US cosmic black metal (Void Omnia) meets raging Cascadian black metal inspired by black metal from Greece (Insanity Cult).

From Finland comes a brand new alliance who creates their musical Black Art under the name of BYTHOS! Bythos has made a pact with the infamous Terratur Possessions and will bring forth their debut album bearing the title "The Womb of Zero" to be released 24.04.2020.
 Musically Bythos combines cold melodies and versatile riffs, creating rich and numinous landscapes which encounters powerful and vicious liturgies. The music supports the lyrical theme of the songs well, and the moods range from oppressive despair to ecstatic
 praise of the Dark Gods. The theme of the album is an interdimentional view of the underworld and its deities, emphasising strongly on the spiritual evolution to liberate the imprisoned powers, and make one with the outer Darkness. The resetting of the Divine
 plans through Destruction and rise above limitations of Life. Beauty in Destruction, Destruction in Beauty. A sonic interpretation of what once was and our constant path of Devolution towards the Luciferian dawn.

Bythos is:
M.S. Vocals (Behexen)
M.L. Guitars/Bass (Behexen)
L.R. Drums (Horna)

ENEPSIGOS was started in 2016 by V.I.T.H.R and Thorns, at the time to be a studio Project. Shortly after Straff joined on guitars, and they began writing and recording their debut album "Plague Of Plagues".
The album was well received in the underground, but the band itself felt they hadn`t really established what was to be ENEPSIGOS. After the album the band parted ways With Straff, which was replaced by Rituul. Immediately they started working on their sophomore album, now to manifest what ENEPSIGOS really is, and shall be. Dark, disgusting,twisted,ritualistic and violent.
With intro and interludes by Alexander Wolf and V.I.T.H.R, vocals,guitars and bass for "Wrath Of Wraths" were recorded at the Bergegarda Studios in Norway, whilst drums were recorded at the Beastcave Studios in Italy. Mixed and mastered by Tore Stjerna at the Necromorbus Studios in Sweden, and with artwork by Benjamin Vierling and additional inlay artwork by Nestor Avalos.
 

Gatefold cover with A4 sized book insert
Double vinyl in two colors options: smoke gold/black on clear-vinyl (100) or black (200)

(This version: GOLD-BLACK MARBLE)

- 6 panel Digipak on uncoated stock
- Black matt lac disc print with black gloss UV lac print
- 12 page Booklet on 170gsm Art Paper

Vástígr is:
Þ. - guitars, vocals

Special guests:
KH - drums
I - bass

All music & lyrics by Vástígr.

credits

released January 8, 2020

Produced by Stephen Lockhart at Studio Emissary, Iceland.
Bass written and recorded by I at Krummafótur studio, Reykjavík, Iceland

Logo by METASTAZIS.
Cover art by METASTAZIS & Benoit Fabre.

A5-sized digipak with extended booklet, printed on offset paper

Apokryphon is the new project by Zorgh, Darkspace founding member and bassist. This new band has nothing to do with Darkspace, hence it would be inappropriate to make any kind of comparison between the two. Quite the opposite, after twenty years crafting a certain kind of music (and a certain kind of black metal), the Bern-based musician wanted to explore something different, and this is why you should expect a totally distant approach to both themes and sounds. The multi-instrumentalist even chose a new alias for herself, here going by the name of Ophis.

We asked Ophis herself to express her thoughts about this new adventure she embarked on, which you can read hereunder: Apokryphon literally means "hidden" or "dark" and refers to the apocrypha, old esoteric scriptures written by a variety of people that were either actively hidden or controversial and therefore excluded from public viewing or biblical content, for example. Many of them were found to be heretical, some were related to gnosticism. Many of them were written in the geographical area of the Middle East about 2000 years ago. ”Subterra" thematically relates to themes treated in the apocrypha. Musically, it is rooted in black metal, decorated with oriental spices. It is an expression of my own personal and musical identity and themes that touch me generally. I have chosen to liberally interpret both apocryphal texts and black metal in my very own way. And with "Djinn" I have found the perfect voice to interpret most of the vocal aspects. 

After more than a decade of cooperation, at Avantgarde Music we have the utmost respect for the Swiss trio, and when one of the few women in the black metal world expressed her wish to produce an (almost) solo album we knew we wanted to give her our full support before even hearing a single note. Once we had Subterra in our hands, we were but proven right.

We hope you’ll find Apokryphon as interesteing as fascinating as we did. Subterra is scheduled for release on the 14th of February, 2020.