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Limited edition of 199 copies on blue/black half & half vinyl with white splatter. Includes a printed innersleeve and download.

Snorlax was born in unexpected circumstances during an experimental recording session in mid-2017 at Black Blood Audio in Brisbane, Australia. Recording engineer Brendan Auld stumbled upon the sound and found the voice of Snorlax while trialing new recording techniques. Following the stream of ideas and sounds that ensued, the result was what later became the unmastered release of The Splintering Demo. Having only played drums for a few short years at that point, Brendan's expectations were low, yet the release grabbed the attention of many black metal enthusiasts including Caligari Records, Jef Whitehead of Leviathan and even made #2 on a 2017 Decibel Magazine list of "Must Listen Underground Demos" compiled by the late Trevor Strnard of The Black Dahlia Murder.

Honing in on the Snorlax sound even further in 2020 with the release of II via Brilliant Emperor Records, more death metal-inspired elements began creeping into the foreground and soon the label "blackened death" was attached to project.

Jumping forward to 2023, Snorlax is set to release its third composition, mysteriously titled The Necrotrophic Abyss. Much like II, this full-length release clocks in at just under 30 minutes, delivering a concise, ruthless display of sonic violence and despair. This album is presented as a concept, with an overarching story that flows throughout, each song a chapter depicting a world so vile its own death is forced by the hands of nature. In the second half of the record Brendan introduces some new voices and layers of collaboration as the planet is laid to waste for eons resulting in a desolate baron abyss only creatures of the undead have a chance of surviving. The album closes with a slight glimpse of hope as the story eludes to an unlikely rebirth of evolution and a potentially inhabitable future after all.

This dark narrative is painted only by the lyrics, the music never loosening its grip, staying trve to the perpetual paralysis proclaimed on track 1 of the Snorlax first release. 

Snorlax was born in unexpected circumstances during an experimental recording session in mid-2017 at Black Blood Audio in Brisbane, Australia. Recording engineer Brendan Auld stumbled upon the sound and found the voice of Snorlax while trialing new recording techniques. Following the stream of ideas and sounds that ensued, the result was what later became the unmastered release of The Splintering Demo. Having only played drums for a few short years at that point, Brendan's expectations were low, yet the release grabbed the attention of many black metal enthusiasts including Caligari Records, Jef Whitehead of Leviathan and even made #2 on a 2017 Decibel Magazine list of "Must Listen Underground Demos" compiled by the late Trevor Strnard of The Black Dahlia Murder.

Honing in on the Snorlax sound even further in 2020 with the release of II via Brilliant Emperor Records, more death metal-inspired elements began creeping into the foreground and soon the label "blackened death" was attached to project.

Jumping forward to 2023, Snorlax is set to release its third composition, mysteriously titled The Necrotrophic Abyss. Much like II, this full-length release clocks in at just under 30 minutes, delivering a concise, ruthless display of sonic violence and despair. This album is presented as a concept, with an overarching story that flows throughout, each song a chapter depicting a world so vile its own death is forced by the hands of nature. In the second half of the record Brendan introduces some new voices and layers of collaboration as the planet is laid to waste for eons resulting in a desolate baron abyss only creatures of the undead have a chance of surviving. The album closes with a slight glimpse of hope as the story eludes to an unlikely rebirth of evolution and a potentially inhabitable future after all.

This dark narrative is painted only by the lyrics, the music never loosening its grip, staying trve to the perpetual paralysis proclaimed on track 1 of the Snorlax first release. 

Claustrum is an old school death metal trio born someplace between Trieste and Gorizia, in north-eastern Italy, featuring members from Grime, Affliction Vector, Fierce and Dromme, all brought together by a feral passion for the death metal of old. Drawing their inspiration from sci-fi, horror, authors like Poe and Lovecraft and the misery of human existence, in their debut, self-titled album Claustrum delivers some crypt-reeking, disturbing death metal, heralding the impending Apocalypse.

The Latin word Claustrum stands for a thin sheet of gray matter that connects to cortical and subcortical regions. It is considered the most interconnected structure within the telencephalon, that allows for the integration of multiple cortical stimuli, such as visual, acoustic and tactile. It is commonly considered the area of ​​the human brain where the soul resides.

But Claustrum is also an enclosed space, a fence, a prison. As the band explained: “Claustrum to us also means separation from the rest of the world. The record was born during a period of confinement due to the pandemic and for this reason it is above all an outlet, something authentic and spontaneous with which to release negative energies that have been compressed for too long. That's why during this separation for us it was paramount to rely on certainties. And those certainties are liturgies written by Autopsy, Asphyx, Death and Incantation”. 

Claustrum is an old school death metal trio born someplace between Trieste and Gorizia, in north-eastern Italy, featuring members from Grime, Affliction Vector, Fierce and Dromme, all brought together by a feral passion for the death metal of old. Drawing their inspiration from sci-fi, horror, authors like Poe and Lovecraft and the misery of human existence, in their debut, self-titled album Claustrum delivers some crypt-reeking, disturbing death metal, heralding the impending Apocalypse.

The Latin word Claustrum stands for a thin sheet of gray matter that connects to cortical and subcortical regions. It is considered the most interconnected structure within the telencephalon, that allows for the integration of multiple cortical stimuli, such as visual, acoustic and tactile. It is commonly considered the area of ​​the human brain where the soul resides.

But Claustrum is also an enclosed space, a fence, a prison. As the band explained: “Claustrum to us also means separation from the rest of the world. The record was born during a period of confinement due to the pandemic and for this reason it is above all an outlet, something authentic and spontaneous with which to release negative energies that have been compressed for too long. That's why during this separation for us it was paramount to rely on certainties. And those certainties are liturgies written by Autopsy, Asphyx, Death and Incantation”. 

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This is a preorder: release date is set to June, 9

2012's 'Random Friday' is one of the most popular Solar Fields albums ...and here it comes back to life again, as usual with a state of the Art remastering by Robert Elster @Elster Mastering and revamped in a 6 panels digipak CD in case you missed the original compact disc edition  (as well as treated for the first time for a vinyl release).

Marbled white grey Vinyl

Vio-Lence is an American thrash metal band formed in 1985 in the San Francisco Bay Area. Throughout its existence, they released demo tapes, one EP and three studio albums. Vio-Lence is often credited as one of the leading lights of the second wave of the genre. This compilation covers their entire demo discography: Rehearsal demo 1986, Demo 1986, Demo 1988, LIVE Miami, 17 August 1988 and the ‘Torgue’ demo 1993. Restored and mastered by Patrick W. Engel at TEMPLE OF DISHARMONY (Sodom, Darkthrone, Sacred Reich). Partially remastered and restored by Achilleas Kalantzis (Varathron, Possessed). Extensive liner notes by Laurent Ramadier (Snake Pit Mag) with Phil Demmel with many old and rare pictures. Cover art Thomas Pinheiro (Malevolent Creation, Possessed, Paradox). Core members on this compilation are Sean Killian - vocals, Phil Demmel - guitars (also Lamb of God, ex Slayer, ex Overkill & ex Machine Head live), Deen Dell bass, Perry Strickland drums (also ex-Exodus & Testament live) Troy Fua (guitar first demo) and on demo 1988: Robb Flynn guitars (Forbidden Evil, Machine Head)

Vio-Lence is an American thrash metal band formed in 1985 in the San Francisco Bay Area. Throughout its existence, they released demo tapes, one EP and three studio albums. Vio-Lence is often credited as one of the leading lights of the second wave of the genre. This compilation covers their entire demo discography: Rehearsal demo 1986, Demo 1986, Demo 1988, LIVE Miami, 17 August 1988 and the ‘Torgue’ demo 1993. Restored and mastered by Patrick W. Engel at TEMPLE OF DISHARMONY (Sodom, Darkthrone, Sacred Reich). Partially remastered and restored by Achilleas Kalantzis (Varathron, Possessed). Extensive liner notes by Laurent Ramadier (Snake Pit Mag) with Phil Demmel with many old and rare pictures. Cover art Thomas Pinheiro (Malevolent Creation, Possessed, Paradox). Core members on this compilation are Sean Killian - vocals, Phil Demmel - guitars (also Lamb of God, ex Slayer, ex Overkill & ex Machine Head live), Deen Dell bass, Perry Strickland drums (also ex-Exodus & Testament live) Troy Fua (guitar first demo) and on demo 1988: Robb Flynn guitars (Forbidden Evil, Machine Head)

Horror of the Zombies is the second album by American death metal / grindcore band Impetigo. It was released in June 1992 and was a major influence in the grindcore and goregrind scene. ‘Horror of the Zombies’ has a much more structured and varied approach then debut album ‘Ultimo Mondo Cannibale’.  The songs are longer and the production on this album is thick and full. The music is still very much old school death metal. Impetigo are influenced by such bands as, Massacre, Autopsy, Repulsion, Master, and Autopsy on this album. This re-release has expanded liner notes by Stevo, 2 extra live songs, different artworks and many rare pictures in a 24 page booklet. A truly gore masterpiece, everything about it reeks of a B grade zombie movie

What would be the combination / hybride  of Infernal Majesty and Blasphemy, two leading and intense extreme metal bands from Canada. And both are responsible for mile-stone albums in their genres. Well, when ex Infernal Majesty vocalist Brian Langley (also ex-Aggression, Canada) and guitar player Marco Banco (known as ‘The Traditional Sodomizer of the Goddess of Perversity’ from the cult Blasphemy album Fallen Angel of Doom....) joined to form band called Tyrants Blood, you will get close. This blasting death / black / trash metal band featuring Blasphemy / Infernal Majesty ex members released three full length albums and a handful of splits and ep’s. Vicrecords now re-issued the initially limited edition self-released third album ‘Into the Kingdom of Graves’ originally from 2013. Cover-art by Paolo Girardi (Firespawn, Aeon, Inquisition and Manilla Road) and liner notes by Brian Langley. Guest bass and mixed and produced by Martin Meyer (ex-Aggression, ex-Disciples of Power). Drums recorded by Terry "Sho" Murray (Infernal Majesty, 3 Inches of Blood).

The colour of every FEN album points towards its lyrical and musical content. For the first time in their career, the East Anglian post-black metal trio has used the colour red on the cover artwork of their seventh full-length "Monuments to Absence". FEN describe the album as an expression of anger, hopelessness and despair – anger at the desperate futility of a human species hell-bent on self-destruction. This is reflected in the decidedly harsh and black sound of "Monuments to Absence", which is undoubtedly FEN's most extreme recording to date, even though there are still moments of atmospheric glory, spatial clean sections, heaving doom, and full-blown riffs, which augment the furious expression of rage. FEN took their name from the Fens of East Anglia when the trio formed in 2006. These desolate and bleak landscapes have left a deep mark in the post-black metal sound, which the band pioneered in the UK when the English scene revitalised in the wake of forerunners FOREFATHER with bands such as FEN, WINTERFYLLETH, and WODENSTHRONE coming to the fore. When FEN released their debut full-length "The Malediction Fields" (2009), the band made good on the huge promise of their previous EP "Ancient Sorrow" (2007) by delivering a first album that already combined the black metal tradition elegantly with a dedicated atmospheric twist and gentle experimentation beyond the perceived narrow confines of their genre. With each following full-length, from "Epoch" (2011), via "Dustwalker" (2012), "Carrion Skies" (2014), "Winter" (2017) to "The Dead Light" (2019), FEN have expanded both their musical range and following, while also perfecting their recognisable and unmistakable sound. "Monuments to Absence" marks FEN's welcome return to a dark and fierce sound.