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8-CD Artbook Edition (hardcover, 28 x 28 cm, 60 pages) featuring personal reflections, song lyrics, additional illustrations, photos, and exclusive bonus material. (600 copies available) 

With “Arcane Past: The Celestial Grimoire,” LIMBONIC ART delivers the ultimate testament to their early years. This jam-packed 8-CD artbook not only brings together all the classic works of the Norwegian black metal cult band—the demos and early albums—but also the previously unreleased “1994 Demo”! LIMBONIC ART was founded in 1993 and released their debut album “Moon in the Scorpio” (1996) three years later via Nocturnal Art Productions. The label was run by EMPEROR guitarist Samoth, aka Tomas Thormodsæter Haugen, who stepped in after the band’s demo cassettes had piqued his interest. The band’s combination of Nordic black metal with cinematic elements—inspired by romantic and classical orchestral music—proved to be highly influential in the years that followed. LIMBONIC ART were always an elusive phenomenon and were already considered a cult band back then, as the Norwegians performed live only very rarely—for example, with a legendary concert at the Black Whitsun subfestival of the millennium edition of the Wave Gothic Festival (2000) in Leipzig.

In the new century, Daemon joined ZYKLON for a while before LIMBONIC ART officially disbanded in February 2003. In 2006, however, Daemon reformed the band and continued on his own. After another extended hiatus, the Norwegian cult band made a remarkable comeback in 2024 with their ninth album, “Opus Daemoniacal.” “Arcane Past: The Celestial Grimoire” brings things full circle, offering all of LIMBONIC ART’s classics and rarities collected on CD for the first time.

SPECIAL RECORD STORE DAY 2026 RELEASE OF ONE OF DARKTHRONE’S RARE LIVE APPEARANCES, PRESENTED ON LIMITED PETROL VINYL WITH PRINTED INNER SLEEVE.

Longstanding Norwegian band Darkthrone started in 1986, originally under the name of Black Death, before their final infamous moniker was introduced. Although becoming known the world over as a black metal band crucial to the lasting legacy of the genre, Darkthrone began more as an extreme metal band utilising elements of thrash, death & doom metal into their early compositions.

With the core classic line-up of Gylve Nagell (Drums), Ted Skjellum (Guitars/vocals), Ivar Enger (Guitars) & Dag Nilsen (Bass) & presented for the first time on standalone vinyl (having previously only featured in the long sold-out ‘Shadows Of Iconoclasm’ boxset), ‘As Wolves Among Sheep…’ Live in Oslo ’90 sees the Norwegian quartet still in their formative years at the legendary Bootleg, playing a collection of material from their demos (which were to be included on the ‘Soulside Journey’ debut album), along with rare performances of tracks which would eventually surface on the intended but then abandoned follow-up, ‘Goatlord’.

The vinyl contains audio sourced from a digital transfer from the original master tapes courtesy of the Bootleg TV archive, with mastering work carried out by Patrick Engel at Temple of Disharmony.

This edition of ‘As Wolves Among Sheep…’ is presented on limited Petrol coloured vinyl for Record Store Day 2026 & includes a printed inner sleeve with photos & lyrics.

180g black vinyl in a classy package.

Gatefold, three sides recorded, with extensive huge book!
Available in two vinyl colors options

Gatefold, three sides recorded, with extensive huge book!
Available in two vinyl colors options

FEN are climbing to a new artistic height by coming down to earth with their eighth full-length "Elemental Part One: Mourning Earth". The East Anglian trio has turned to their 'roots' in every sense, by distilling the true essence of what constitutes their sound through everything that they have learned and added in the last two decades. While the previous album, "Monuments to Absence" (2023), was deliberately arranged dense, fast and intense, FEN decided to leave breathing space on this album to allow more time for themes and ideas to exhale and unfurl. Of course, there is still much sonic aggression but channelled differently as large parts of "Mourning Earth" were recorded live to allow an organic nature to flow, and to permit the natural rhythms of the pieces to develop. Lyrically, FEN sum up their basic idea behind "Elemental Part One: Mourning Earth" in their own poetic words: "The morning mists clearing over the boggy expanses of the fens to reveal another grey, gloom-laden day of sorrow and regret. And at twilight, the slow, sad realisation that tomorrow promises only more of the same – tormented by the half-heard whispers of the spirits bound to the soils, our pain continues. And we can only endure." With "Elemental Part One: Mourning Earth", FEN have reached a new pinnacle in their exciting career and achieved a perfect balance between their black metal foundations and post-black metal innovations. FEN take their listener on a journey to grim bogs, languid waterways, and dismal fogs over bare rock – yet on the other side waits a sense of surcease to the endless existential ennui within.

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