Preordine

HULDER is a dark black metal project from the United States, driven by the creative partnership of Hulder and Necreon, whose three albums to date have steadily drawn the project toward more expansive and collaborative territory. ‘Verbolgen’, released jointly by Season of Mist and 20 Buck Spin, marks a decisive turn: the first HULDER record on which Necreon steps fully into his role as co-leader rather than session contributor. Rooted in ancient nature worship, ancestral rite, and the shadows of pre-Christian tradition, ‘Verbolgen’ moves through nine tracks that trade in both the severity and the strange, wintry beauty that have always defined HULDER 's sound. The writing has grown more layered here, drawing on a wider palette of instrumentation: hurdy gurdy and additional keys from Keld bring an almost processional weight to certain passages, while Ianuaria's session flute drifts through the album like smoke across still water. Two drummers divide the record between them, Vapula and Vrolok each bringing their own character to their respective tracks, and the sum of it is a rhythm section that feels alive to the album's shifts in mood and tempo. The mix, handled by Ahti Kortelainen at Tico Tico Studio in Finland, gives the record an earthy, resonant quality that suits its themes of blood, soil, and the settling of old debts. Even the visual identity signals a new chapter: the cover art, painted by Morrigan, is her first work created for a metal band in nearly three decades, with an updated logo crafted by Jannicke Wiese Hansen. Three of the album's songs are sung in Flemish, lending ‘Verbolgen’ a peculiar, incantatory dimension that sets it apart from anything in HULDER's back catalogue. For fans of BATHORY, DISSECTION, MOONSORROW

Smoke marbled vinyl limited to 300 copies

Limited box set incl. 2CD artbook edition, gatefold LP (excl. "galaxy" metallic vinyl), bonus LP (8 tracks, 48 minutes), music cassette (excl. beige-coloured in clear/black case), 4 art prints (30x30 cm) and a poster (450 copies available)

Liminal Sky is the new creative chapter for acclaimed producer Jaime Gomez Arellano (Ghost, Ulver, Opeth, Paradise Lost) and musician Daniel Knight, who previously played together in the band Messenger (UK). Written and recorded in isolation at Orgone Studios, their debut album All Tomorrow’s Darkness transforms grief, insomnia and the bleak stillness of the English countryside into widescreen, melancholic post-rock.

At the heart of the album is Mat McNerney (Hexvessel, Beastmilk/Grave Pleasures), whose recent loss of his mother deepened the record’s emotional honesty. Joined by a striking cast of Nordic collaborators including Kristoffer Rygg, Karin Park, Daniel O’Sullivan, Lars Horntveth, Alicia Nurho, Anders Møller, Tore Ylwizaker, Ole Alexander Halstensgård, and Matt Rozeik, each adding atmosphere without altering the album’s singular, desolate vision.

Liminal Sky is the new creative chapter for acclaimed producer Jaime Gomez Arellano (Ghost, Ulver, Opeth, Paradise Lost) and musician Daniel Knight, who previously played together in the band Messenger (UK). Written and recorded in isolation at Orgone Studios, their debut album All Tomorrow’s Darkness transforms grief, insomnia and the bleak stillness of the English countryside into widescreen, melancholic post-rock.

At the heart of the album is Mat McNerney (Hexvessel, Beastmilk/Grave Pleasures), whose recent loss of his mother deepened the record’s emotional honesty. Joined by a striking cast of Nordic collaborators including Kristoffer Rygg, Karin Park, Daniel O’Sullivan, Lars Horntveth, Alicia Nurho, Anders Møller, Tore Ylwizaker, Ole Alexander Halstensgård, and Matt Rozeik, each adding atmosphere without altering the album’s singular, desolate vision.

Six keys opened six doors, and their poison crept into our world.

Five years has passed since the doors of perdition were opened with the release of Escumergament’s debut studio album ...ni degu fazentz escumergamënt e mesorga..., and now it is time to explore the corrupted wastelands at these entrances.

Apparebat Eidolon Senex speaks of anger, resignation and misfortune. A glimpse into the smoldering ruins of temples and oceans filled with corpses. Of haunting spirits and mad gods. Of betrayal and unfathomable loss. Seven songs where the demon appears at different places depending on time, place and intent.

Just like ...ni degu fazentz escumergamënt e mesorga..., Apparebat Eidolon Senex was recorded in the Chapel of the Wanderers on old and unpredictable equipment during days and nights of storms and torment.

These spells of uncompromising black metal are designed to curse and bring ruin.

Six keys opened six doors, and their poison crept into our world.

Five years has passed since the doors of perdition were opened with the release of Escumergament’s debut studio album ...ni degu fazentz escumergamënt e mesorga..., and now it is time to explore the corrupted wastelands at these entrances.

Apparebat Eidolon Senex speaks of anger, resignation and misfortune. A glimpse into the smoldering ruins of temples and oceans filled with corpses. Of haunting spirits and mad gods. Of betrayal and unfathomable loss. Seven songs where the demon appears at different places depending on time, place and intent.

Just like ...ni degu fazentz escumergamënt e mesorga..., Apparebat Eidolon Senex was recorded in the Chapel of the Wanderers on old and unpredictable equipment during days and nights of storms and torment.

These spells of uncompromising black metal are designed to curse and bring ruin.

Three years after The Necrotrophic Abyss, Australian one-man band Snorlax is back to wreak havoc.

Brendan Auld’s signature style, blending death metal with an oppressive and obscure black metal vibe takes a turn towards the lands of grindcore, both musically and conceptually.

Toxic Current is the new studio album by the multi-instrumentalist from Brisbane, and it comes with two covers from Australian grind and hardcore bands, Agents Of Abhorrence and The Fevered. To those familiar with Auld’s work, particularly Snorlax, these influences have always been part of his art, but never to such a clear extent. 

Finnish death metal 7" box set series to be released via Svart Records - Part I with Abhorrence, Disgrace & Messiah Paratroops out in April

This is part of the story of the birth of early Finnish death metal. The late ’80s and early ’90s were a time when underground extreme metal flourished, and the main centrifugal force that got bands known globally was tape trading. Influences spread like a disease, and young, emerging death metal groups were eager to be more brutal than the next. Lack of money meant that studios couldn’t be booked for weeks, so the first logical release for starting bands was usually a self-released demo tape or a seven-inch vinyl, where they could squeeze in two to four tracks.

Even though we are talking about Finnish death metal here, the American record label Seraphic Decay, run by Steve O’Bannon, plays an important role in this story. It was the label that originally released the first 7” records for three Finnish bands: Disgrace's Debts of God (1990), Abhorrence's Abhorrence (1990) — the band that later morphed into Amorphis — and Messiah Paratroops' The Past (1992).