Vinili

After the two albums Nattestid and Bjoergvin, Taake completed the trilogy with Doedskvad. Recorded at Grieghallen Studios, with guest appearances from cult black metal artists such as Nattefrost (Carpathian Forest), Nordavind (ex-Carpathian Forest) and Taipan (Orcustus), Doedskvad is a pure, cold and grim black metal masterpiece. Doedskvad has not been pressed on vinyl since 2016 but is back in 2018 on an extremely limited run.

18+, Barely Legal. Yes, it has been over 18 years since I HATE first released the VULCANO/NIFELHEIM split in 2006. Back then as a 7” and CD. The release to this day still contains two exclusive non album studio tracks by both bands. Time has come to finally make this abomination available as a 12” LP. The vinyl will also feature NIFELHEIM’s version of “Insulter of Jesus Christ” (DAMNATION cover). Previously only available on the 2006 CD-version (The track features guest appearance by Jon Nödtveidt – his last ever recording prior to his passing).

Blood Red

After the reckless barbarity of 2017’s Poisoned Blood 12-inch, Portland’s Witch Vomit dig deeper into the ground than ever before, disinterring Buried Deep In A Bottomless Grave, their second full length torrent of skullbashing wormridden horror from beyond. On this new album the band moves toward perfecting the surgical fusion of the driving Scandinavian-style violence and subconscious terror they’ve previously established, and a now gore-obsessed smashing of their American forbears. Subtlety is abolished for savage attack, imprinted on the listener’s withering mind like an impulsive stab to the throat from a crazed stranger, while all the while a dreadful sense of eerie melody rings throughout the album. With the permanent addition of second guitarist C.L., Witch Vomit achieve heightened levels of primal regression and blood-soaked madness. Buried Deep In A Bottomless Grave is a deadly addition to their growing catalog of atrocity.

Red Translucent

B2 Green Substance

The first album from unconventional Polish power trio Species, ‘To Find Deliverance’, leveled us with its rare blend of technical thrash prowess and unorthodox but highly inspired songwriting, enough to make our best of 2022 album list. Out of that list a collaboration was born and now Species make their 20 Buck Spin debut with second album ‘Changelings’.

A step up in every regard, ‘Changelings’ is astonishing in its accomplished precision and how much it manages to achieve within the scope of individual tracks and as a cohesive whole. The album features an overload of angular guitar warfare, traditional Euro-thrash aggression with a modern resonance, rhythmic percussive seizures, and intricate basslines that make their intention deeply felt, not just following the guitar but dialoguing with it in a way that offers a second melodic brain to the album. In combination these elements thread seamlessly to give ‘Changelings’ its colorful and uncanny vision, as if John Carpenter had co-produced ‘Rust In Peace’ behind the iron curtain. It’s bristling with sci-fi paranoia, alien terror and a hint of Cold War menace. The early convergence of Thrash Metal with Death Metal is also unmistakably present in the shape-shifting sound of Species.

While there’s more than enough primitive and traditional Thrash bands to go around, Species embraces the genre’s lesser-travelled road of forward-thinking virtuosity and inventive experimentation, showing there’s still plenty of fertile ground to seed new musical territory. Nowhere is it more apparent than on 10-minute album closer ‘Biological Masterpiece’, where Species displays all its weapons; hyperspeed assaults, dystopian lulls and instrumental mastery, in a climatic saga beyond space and time. “Changelings” is that rare album nowadays that still has the ability to surprise in the most triumphant and euphoric way possible. 

First time on vinyl!

Comes with a 12"x12" 20-page booklet glued on the gatefold, A4 poster and a download card. Pressed on transparent red heavy vinyl with black splatters and laser engraved etching on D side.

"The Poisonous Path" is a raging beast, a monstrous work straight from the depths of Hell which distils a deeply mephitic climate into an addictive poison. The production is massive, the riffing intense, the atmosphere suffocating and the melodies vicious and bewitching, this is dark sonic alchemy.

Having forged their own amazingly impure path over the years, they are at the height of their unholy Art and comfortably seated on the throne of Devilish Black Metal!