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Benvenuti al Circle of Wax Bundle #2, che copre le release Avantgarde Music in vinile per Novembre e Dicembre: questo bundle rimarrà attivo ed ordinabile fino al 29/12/2021 (a Gennaio seguirà quindi il Bundle #3 con le releases di Gennaio e Febbraio 2022).

Bundle #2 comprende:

Mesarthim 'CLG J02182–05102' LP (white with oxblood vinyl) (November release)
Selvans 'Dark Italian Art' LP (Gold/black vinyl LTD 200) (November release)
Inherits The Void 'Monolith of Light' LP (black/grey smoke vinyl LTD 100) (December release)
Sgàile 'Ideals & Morality' LP (green on black vinyl LTD 100)  (December release)

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This will guarantee you the limited colored version of every single album at a special price, paying every release only 15€ or less (regardless of them being single or double LP albums).

Avantgarde Music Circle Of Wax is valid for our new releases only (re-releases / reissues will not be included), hence you will start receiving the albums the month after you join. E.G. if you join in October 2021, you will receive a parcel in November 2021, containing the two albums released in October and the two albums released in November in one single shipping.

Goats of Doom has achieved a well earned position in Finnish Black Metal scene in a short period with their skilled melodic Black Metal in the traditional Finnish style yet with a certain touch of their own brand added to it. Goats of Doom now unites with a promising newcomer Sarastus on this split, both delivering the darkness of the north in a memorable way! Dark arts from the shadows!

Although appearing as a new entity, the origins of Finland's CRIMSON DIMENSION date back to 2017 or perhaps even earlier. That year, the band revealed the staggeringly epic track "Black Mass," which vividly displayed 12 minutes of blackened progressive metal. That CRIMSON DIMENSION stress this difference - blackened progressive metal, instead of "progressive black metal" - is telling, as their spectrum of sounds & sensations encompasses a far wider range than the usually-obsidian hues of black metal, no matter how extended or extrapolated. While years of seeming silence followed, CRIMSON DIMENSION were patiently crafting their long-form debut, now emerging as Crimson Dimension. If the dozen minutes of "Black Mass" dazzled in their generous buffet of adventurous metallics, then the three accompanying songs surrounding it on the album go even deeper and darker than that already-not-inconsiderable feat. With all four songs combining for nearly an hour's worth of music, CRIMSON DIMENSION go all in on painting a dark, dynamic, and detouring canvas beyond compare. To be sure, the root sounds are decidedly black metal in origin, but with the quintet's enviable chops put squarely in the service of The Song and no texture considered too taboo, Crimson Dimension mystifies and mesmerizes with ever-shifting ease. In fact, for each of its component tracks going well into the double digits, the album's deceptively compact; those Herculean minutes pass ever so quickly, so thrilling and storytelling is CRIMSON DIMENSION's songcraft.

Erang's magnum opus originally released back in 2013.

Sepulchral Voice, black vinyl, The 2nd album by the most insane horde imaginable. 'Nerve Butcherer' even exceeds its predecessor 'Primitive Force' in levels of aggression, perversion, wrath and musical madness. Prepare for the crudest aural detonation possible as this is truly mentally disordered! Be aware to be shocked, you have been warned!

Sepulchral Voice, black vinyl, The 2nd album by the most insane horde imaginable. 'Nerve Butcherer' even exceeds its predecessor 'Primitive Force' in levels of aggression, perversion, wrath and musical madness. Prepare for the crudest aural detonation possible as this is truly mentally disordered! Be aware to be shocked, you have been warned!

Started as the side project of an underground black metal band called Deathcrush, DEFACEMENT have became one of the most promising acts in the realm of dissonant death/black metal, and certainly one that doesn't fear to experiment.
After an interesting and self-produced debut ("Deviant", 2019), DEFACEMENT's sophomore self-titled album stands as a statement of utter violence and despair against the endless inner struggle caused by the growing lack of meaning in this thing we call life. From chaotic blasting madness to melancholic slow passages and ambient interludes, DEFACEMENT's atmospheric journey into the depths of the mind is going to leave a mark in the modern extreme metal scene, as well as an ugly scar on your soul.
Dusty Ray's magnificent cover painting symbolically sums up the nature of “Defacement”, a work poised between horror and introspection. 

2xCD DIGIPACK (incl. Digital Download)
• Limited to 500 pcs
• Deluxe 6-Panel Digipack, Gloss Lamination
• Massive Booklet with Lyrics
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Veterans from countless successful releases including a seminal split album (“Sol”, 2013) that cemented their friendship and earned them unconditioned esteem and love from the atmospheric black metal aficionados, SPECTRAL LORE's sole member Ayloss and Jacob Buczarski from MARE COGNITUM join forces once again for another mystical trip through the stars. Monumental and daring in its length and scope, "Wanderers: Astrology Of The Nine" is a thematic journey through our solar system, illustrating and anthropomorphizing it into mythology which parallels our own humanity with the science of these mysterious formations.

“The Horizons Towards which Splendour Withers” is a metal epic which conducts the listeners through otherworldly decaying landscapes, agoraphobic wastelands and desolate cosmic sceneries thanks to monstrous dissonant riffs, convulsing rhythms, and spiteful growls and shrieks. The band explores the whole panorama of extreme music and metal idioms incorporating the most diverse influences: from death metal to grind and doom metal, passing through atmospheric and progressive black metal, also treating itself with a fascinating, apocalyptic symphonic interlude that adds an avant-garde touch to the album's closing number.

While MYSTRAS' previous album "Castles Conquered and Reclaimed" dealt with peasant uprisings, new album "Empires Vanquished And Dismantled" moves into the topic of medieval imperialism, following the band's motto "Medieval Black Metal Against Empire and Aristocracy". The central point of the album consists of the first two metal songs, "On The Promises Of Angels" and the 14-minute epic "The Fall Of The Kingdom Of Jerusalem", both thematically dealing with the Crusades as the progenitor of the European colonialism of the 15th century: the first song tells about the successful conquest of Jerusalem, while the second narrates the history of its loss in the hands of Saladin.
Sole member Ayloss (SPECTRAL LORE) couldn't obviously leave out a song centered around the premises of the Byzantine Empire, and in fact "The Favor Of The Saints" deals with the successful Bulgarian uprising lead by Peter and Asen in the 12th century, one of the major blows which lead to the weakening and eventual dissolution of the Empire.

Musically, "Empires Vanquished And Dismantled" follows the same stylistic path of MYSTRAS' debut but with a much clearer and stronger sound, and without betraying the lo-fi and atmospheric aesthetics of the project. Much more focus and effort was given into the folk tracks, produced with the help of six session musicians and their exotic instruments, like the Turkish ney, the violin and the santoor, while two singers lent their powerful voices into the instrumentals: Nina Saeidi from the doom band Lowen, and opera singer Carling Chiu.

"The Fire Cult Beyond Eternity" is the new album from ONIRIK (Portugal), a follow-up to 2015's "Casket Dream Veneration" and yet another proof of the talent of Gonius Rex, the band's sole member. ONIRIK has been active since 2002 and throughout the years has explored black metal in several approaches, always faithful to its original purpose: the emission of unordinary, dissonant and raw outputs with trance-inducing atmospheres, typically very cold and bathed in magic.
With the special guest participation of none other than Dirge Rep on drums (GEHENNA, ENSLAVED, ORCUSTUS, THE KONSORTIUM), and mixed & mastered by Semjaza of THY DARKENED SHADE, "The Fire Cult Beyond Eternity" is the consequence of the descent and return from below carrying the flames and lava on its scales, giving it back to the world in posthumous vengeance.