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After the lucky "Usurp The Throne", well-reviewed and extensively played on tour, UBUREN are back with a new harsh, unrelenting strain of black metal full of the usual viking metal edge. Once again, in the new batch of songs their sound sits cold and atmospheric, raw and haunting, built on tremolo-driven riffing in the best tradition of the second-wave black metal. Nonetheless, the underlying melody is never completely lost, highlighting melancholic passages that give the songs a Majestic weight.

Formed in 2010 in Sandnes, Rogaland, Uburen took shape around a shared obsession with Norse mythology and old Norwegian culture — a mutual ideology of resurfacing viking folklore through music built to be felt as much as heard. Following a lineup change in late 2019, Uburen entered the studio with new drummer Wrage Steinarson for what would become 2023's "Usurp the Throne" — an eight-track opus marking a new highpoint for the band. Cold, atmospheric and uncompromising, the album stood as Uburen's most fully realized record up to that point. The new opus, "Dødsdans I Aske", promises to raise the bar even higher.

Your patience will be rewarded.

Chile’s Ripper returns with their first full-length since 2016’s “Experiment of Existence”.

“Towards Rebirth” contains the band’s most violent work to date. Razor sharp guitar work, intense drumming and well-crafted songs are still there…only more concise, more vicious.

Recorded, mixed and mastered by Pablo Clares at DM6 Studio. Artwork by Paolo Girardi.

In a world increasingly shaped by disposable content, Chat Pile answer with something defiantly real and organic, a mentality that permeates Who Loves The Sun, their third full-length record. Since the band’s formation just over six years ago, the Oklahoma City-based quartet Chat Pile has grown from a scrappy passion project into one of the defining heavy acts to emerge from the 2020s underground. Ray B. (vocals), L. Manhole (guitar), Stin (bass), and Cap’n Ron (drums) create a crushing, crass, and cathartic take on noise rock that captures a raw, undeniably human essence in an age marked by technological overreach and the cold state of society. Nothing about Who Loves The Sun feels synthetic.

Whereas their debut album God’s Country depicted a particularly American flavor of dread, and the follow up Cool World showed a cruel planet defined by global systemic violence, Who Loves The Sun peels the skin back on how collective indifference defines this new century. Spanning imagery of coastlines devouring cities, dead-end jobs, and submission to data-driven inauthenticity, the album dissects the apathy-bloated state of 21st-century existence as a slow-motion apocalypse.

For their new album Scour Order, their sixteenth release, Krallice comes full circle and returns to Profound Lore (who initially released the band’s first three releases) with a new album that is raging and dark, dense but also expansive. One that slightly recalls the earlier phase of the band yet continues in the forward-thinking/next level singular sonic histrionics that the band have continued to expand and morph upon throughout the years. While the band have been experimenting more with their sound (band members switching roles, the band diving into more ambient and experimental territory etc.) over the last little while, Scour Order sees Krallice tether slightly back to more of a progressive black metal aura akin to the first four albums.

• Second album from German black/death cult band, first album was on Sentient Ruin Laboratories

• Strange death metal set in a fictional world with inspiration from Mayan culture

• Vinyl edition includes 24x24 double-sided poster insert, CD in digipak with foldout insert

• For fans of Timeghoul, Demilich, Profanatica, Tzompantli, Genocide Shrines, Gorguts, Volahn

Opaque Magenta

Cryfemal, the infamous Necro Black Metal act from the Spanish island Tenerife is back with a brand new mini-album entitled: Puro Carbon. Like its predecessor, you can expect more or less the same menu! 9 songs branded with pure hatred, fury and straight forward Black Metal riffing.

These Spanish maniacs keep exploring the vast depths of their Necro attitude with one clear goal, delivering devastating sounds without any remorse or comprehension. Pure 90”s Black Metal is what you get. No Fancy Hipster Bullshit here! Take it or leave it!

First pressing on black double vinyl

DRUDKH is a venerated entity in the realm of atmospheric and pagan black metal. Renowned for their evocative storytelling and profound musical compositions, DRUDKH stands as a paragon of artistic depth, seamlessly melding the corporeal with the ethereal.

With ‘Shadow Play’, DRUDKH offers a mesmerizing odyssey through themes of exile, the cyclical dance of life and death, and a poignant yearning for one's origins. An album which invites you into a realm where silence battles storm, and light intertwines with shadow. A 6-track journey - "Scattering the Ashes" stirs the soul with its introspective melancholy, while “April” envelops you in a meditative trance. The narrative evolves with “The Exile”, capturing the essence of displacement, and continues with the poignant echoes in “Fallen Blossom”. “The Eve” stands as a meditative contemplation on life’s fleeting beauty, and the expansive “The Thirst” culminates this exploration with a profound reflection on human yearning.
‘Shadow Play’ is an evocative experience that challenges you to confront your shadows and revel in the intricate dance of light and dark. Let DRUDKH’s newest release illuminate your path through the bleak human experience.

For fans of AGALLOCH, WINTERFYLLETH, SAOR.

Stunning limited bone vinyl edition housed in gatefold sleeve with 5mm spine, printed on 350gsm coated carton with gold hot foil print. Includes LP sized 12 page booklet printed on 150gsm art paper.

Skagg.Hoest.Thurzur.Lava.

Years in the making, DEATHCULT are returning with their cruel Norwegian black metal, firing the third album of their trilogy on to the world which began with “Cult of the Dragon” (2007) and “Cult of the Goat” (2017).

THEODOR BASTARD refuse to stay still. In the five years of relative silence since their previous studio venture, the world music pioneers were searching for a way out of the darkness that’s descended over reality. The path that they discovered didn’t lead back to their home in the harsh northern forest region of Karelia but away from it, into the coldness of the city and a collapsing civilization. By reconnecting with their electronic roots, THEODOR BASTARD are reborn on a new album mysteriously called 'V'.

'V' reflects just how much has changed since the world last heard from the band. While still widely recognized internationally as leaders for ritual folk and world music, THEODOR BASTARD have re-embraced their early electronic impulses because that’s now how modern life feels: cold, sharp, tense. Long-time fans were pleasantly surprised when the pulse-pounding analog synths of “Nebo” first appeared in the award-winning Russian crime drama ‘The Method’, but the album’s lead single is a sure sign that they’re bound for dark new horizons. Like a space shuttle, “Sverkay” rumbles with distorted bass before it’s suspended high above the earth by a trap-like beat.

“Vdokh – vydokh” ("inhale - exhale"), sings a bewitching Yana Veva as she glimpses what’s to come from our dangerous endgame with war, technology and social division. To a world that’s mired in its own deadly trance, 'V' arrives like a much-needed slap across the face. The album was created during a long and trying period for THEODOR BASTARD. It offers little comfort: its anger, confusion and disappointment are hurled at the outside world, which through our own actions, is tipping over the edge. The aggressive “Vedma” surges with black cosmic energy, as if summoning the apocalypse. But the band aren’t without hope. At their core, the ritual spirit remains. “Ostavlyaem” dances as light as a feather, only to transcend this earth for a place amongst the stars.

With 'V', THEODOR BASTARD return with dark electronics for dark times.

For fans of HEILUNG, GARMARNA, WARDRUNA.