Preordine

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).

Debemur Morti reissue 2026

Comes in a 6-panel digipack. First batch comes in black polycarbonate CD.

Originally released in 2017 by Dark Descent records and long sold out, "Holókauston" is - for now - the crowning achievement of BESTIA ARCANA, the occultist Black Metal outlet for Naas Alcameth (AKHLYS, AORATOS, NIGHTBRINGER) alongside current and ex-members of NIGHTBRINGER.

Debemur Morti reissue 2026

Comes in a 6-panel digipack. First batch comes in black polycarbonate CD.

Originally released in 2017 by Dark Descent records and long sold out, "Holókauston" is - for now - the crowning achievement of BESTIA ARCANA, the occultist Black Metal outlet for Naas Alcameth (AKHLYS, AORATOS, NIGHTBRINGER) alongside current and ex-members of NIGHTBRINGER.

Pressed on deep blue marble effect heavy vinyl. Comes with a 12-page booklet, A2 poster and download card. Colors on final record may vary to a degree from the mockup.

The electrifying 9th full-length from Czech avant-Black Metal voyagers INFERNO distils the bleak grandeur of 2021's "Paradeigma" into another disturbed and profound psychological trip, where the listener takes the role of 'silent witness to the chaos within our cosmos'.

Comes in a 6-panel digipack with a 12-page booklet and poster. First batch comes in black polycarbonate CD.

The electrifying 9th full-length from Czech avant-Black Metal voyagers INFERNO distils the bleak grandeur of 2021's "Paradeigma" into another disturbed and profound psychological trip, where the listener takes the role of 'silent witness to the chaos within our cosmos'.

The album With No Human Intervention, released in 2003, is considered by many fans and critics to be Aborym’s creative peak. It is a complex work that blends the violence of black metal with industrial rhythms, digital sampling, and extreme electronic elements.

The album is dedicated to Jon Nödtveidt (frontman of Dissection) and to Bard “Faust” Eithun.

Line-up and Musicians
Attila Csihar: Lead vocals (Mayhem).
Malfeitor Fabbri: Guitars and synths.
Seth Teitan: Guitars.
Mick Kenney (Irrumator): Programmed drums (Anaal Nathrakh).

Collaborations and Guests
The album features several collaborations, with lyrics and performances by:
Bard "Faust" Eithun: Lyrics (tracks 2, 6).
Nattefrost: Lyrics and vocals (track 13).
Kvarforth: Additional vocals (Shining).
Sasrof: Lyrics (Diabolicum).

The album With No Human Intervention, released in 2003, is considered by many fans and critics to be Aborym’s creative peak. It is a complex work that blends the violence of black metal with industrial rhythms, digital sampling, and extreme electronic elements.

The album is dedicated to Jon Nödtveidt (frontman of Dissection) and to Bard “Faust” Eithun.

Line-up and Musicians
Attila Csihar: Lead vocals (Mayhem).
Malfeitor Fabbri: Guitars and synths.
Seth Teitan: Guitars.
Mick Kenney (Irrumator): Programmed drums (Anaal Nathrakh).

Collaborations and Guests
The album features several collaborations, with lyrics and performances by:
Bard "Faust" Eithun: Lyrics (tracks 2, 6).
Nattefrost: Lyrics and vocals (track 13).
Kvarforth: Additional vocals (Shining).
Sasrof: Lyrics (Diabolicum).

The journey of Spirit Adrift has come full circle. With their sixth album in a decade, mastermind Nathan Garrett is ready to unleash the band’s final chapter. Infinite Illumination, the Spirit Adrift swansong, is a return to the wellspring that first inspired it all and testament to a band that in the last ten years has crafted an impeccable signature thoroughly their own, molded from the elemental matter of more than a half century of heavy metal exaltation.

Infinite Illumination has a directness to it, a sense of urgency and raw intensity. The songs feel inevitable, like they had to be driven out from deep within during a time of great upheaval. The fatalistic “Born in a Bad Way” summons a vengeful “broken relic from another age” that must “live again and make them pay” via Garrett’s swaggering snarl, while “White Death” impugns “God shined on a chosen few, we must kill the rest of you”. These songs have a palpable sense of malaise both spiritual and terrestrial, personal and universal, inflicted via crushing traditional doom riffs, thunderous mid-tempo marches and Garrett’s impassioned vocal delivery.

The journey of Spirit Adrift has come full circle. With their sixth album in a decade, mastermind Nathan Garrett is ready to unleash the band’s final chapter. Infinite Illumination, the Spirit Adrift swansong, is a return to the wellspring that first inspired it all and testament to a band that in the last ten years has crafted an impeccable signature thoroughly their own, molded from the elemental matter of more than a half century of heavy metal exaltation.

Infinite Illumination has a directness to it, a sense of urgency and raw intensity. The songs feel inevitable, like they had to be driven out from deep within during a time of great upheaval. The fatalistic “Born in a Bad Way” summons a vengeful “broken relic from another age” that must “live again and make them pay” via Garrett’s swaggering snarl, while “White Death” impugns “God shined on a chosen few, we must kill the rest of you”. These songs have a palpable sense of malaise both spiritual and terrestrial, personal and universal, inflicted via crushing traditional doom riffs, thunderous mid-tempo marches and Garrett’s impassioned vocal delivery.

Black Vinyl

Norwegian titan, Mork, was created by Thomas Eriksen in 2004, with the debut album ‘Isebakke’ eventually surfacing in 2013. Since then, Mork has been ceaselessly rising through the echelons of Black Metal, and on the heels of 2024’s intense and groundbreaking ‘Syv’ opus - which has resulted in the band branching out with tours in the Far East & Australia - Eriksen continues on this evolutionary path with the new album, and what is undoubtedly set to be a new benchmark, ‘Monolitt’.

“A stark monument to the unrelenting brutality of reality, the monolith looms above us, immovable, indifferent, eternal. Its crushing presence bears down on the spirit, suffocating hope and testing the limits of endurance. It is an experience carved in stone, unyielding”.

‘Monolitt’ is an album that further expands the sonic and atmospheric depth of existing Mork releases; unafraid to challenge the listener, while steadfastly rooted in the cold traditions of the genre. With this uncompromising vision and direction for ‘Monolitt’, Mork delivers a sound which is brutal yet expansive, whilst also heavy and epic, for a relentless journey through the shadows of Norwegian Black Metal, while forging new paths within that ancient and revered framework.

Across these songs, themes of collapse, transformation, isolation, and destruction form the central pillars. From the crushing burden of existence to spectral wanderings through forgotten landscapes, ‘Monolitt’ explores the human condition through bleak introspection and grand imagery. Nature rages, giants awaken, faith crumbles, all in pursuit of experience beyond the limits of flesh and mind.