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Released only a handful of months following the band’s breakthrough debut EP, Remove Your Skin Please signaled that whatever Chat Pile was doing wasn't just a one-off novelty of Midwest metal nihilism. While the band’s foundational sound of caustic and cacophonous noise rock crystallized with its debut, the release of Remove Your Skin Please signposted the vast extent to which Chat Pile could stylistically tinker and conceptually iterate atop it. Heard in the gothy post-punk dirge of “Mask” and the dissonant extreme metal fervor of “Davis'', the more experimental ideas present on Remove Your Skin Please come off less like a selection of the band’s conceptual prototypes and more like fully realized reflections of its member's own tastes and preferences. That doesn’t mean Chat Pile’s noise rock foundation is diluted in the slightest as EP bookends “Dallas Beltway” and “Garbage Man” push its twisted take on the genre to new aural extremes in its instrumentation and subject matter spanning grisly serial murders to the slow festering death of the environment at the hands of mankind. For as ugly and unhinged as Chat Pile’s tales of 21st-century American dread are, Remove Your Skin Please asserts something that is somehow subtly even more terrifying: If a quartet of otherwise ordinary Okies can convey such apocalyptically bleak yet resonate messages in its music, that may mean we feel that same nihilism, too.

Following the well-acclaimed "Firescorched", released in 2022, the new album "Something To Pierce" promises to be even more aggressive, both musically and lyrically. Sadist's tenth installment is a bold amalgamation of technique, aggression and experimentation; in short, "a further step towards the definition of a unique music style, which you can’t help but love…or hate," comments founding member & mastermind, Tommy Talamanca. The band started out in the early nineties and went ahead of its time, with an adventurous take on the then-developing progressive death metal subgenre. Its presence was firmly established through an unmistakable style of jazz-infected epic prog-death, fraught with Middle-Eastern sounds. The band's unmistakable sonic formula is boldly expanded upon on "Something To Pierce". 1. Something to Pierce2. Deprived3. No Feast for Flies4. Kill Devour Dissect5. The Sun God6. Dume Kike7. One Shot Closer8. The Best Part is the Brain9. Nove Strade10. Respirium (instrumentalny)

Havukruunu is the spirit of freedom, harbinger of oblivion, and it tells you: FLY, YOU Fools!

Svart Records is set to release the band’s fourth album Tavastland in February 2025

After three albums, the pieces of the puzzle fit, and Havukruunu, the favorite band of the sensitive and sorrowful returns with a vengeance to blur the line between the real and unreal. The sorrowful guitars of Stefa and Bootleg-Henkka draw threatening dark shadows on the wall, Kostajainen's drumming bombardement pulses like embers of a dying fire in the hearth. All the while, Humö's bass guitar is clanking and wailing like the icy wind rattling windows and banging walls, as Stefa roars and channels messages from the netherworld or preaches wisdom of ancient days, backed by a choir.

Lords of Hell smile approving as the flames of hatred and cunning of their beloved sons drowns a dying old world, and heart of the earth trembles the birth of new and weird. Havukruunu is the spirit of freedom, harbinger of oblivion, and it tells you: FLY, YOU Fools!

Havukruunu’s upcoming album Tavastland tells the story of a small, strange people.

”-Tavastland tells how in 1237 the Tavastians rose in a rebellion against the church of Christ and drove the popes naked into the frost to die. Tavastland reveals our fathers’ centuries old sins and lies of consolation. Tavastland speaks of him, who has become a prisoner of his home, alienated from the land of the forest and is now afraid of the dark with all lights on, surrounded by his smart devices. Tavastland tells about the freedom we lost. Tavastland haunts its listener to the grave, and I will personally open that grave one bleak night, and steal the fading light of your sempiternal soul.”, says Stefa.

The fifth album Tapping The Vein by German Thrash Metal legends SODOM, originally released in 1992 and considered one of the best in their extensive catalog, finally available again on limited double-MC.The 2MC contains the 2024 Redux of the original album, remixed by guitarist Andy Brings on tape one and on tape two Live in Tokyo 1992. Both mastered by Eroc.4-panel j-card, limited to 500 copies. TBC

San Francisco, CA - January 25, 2018 - The Wait is over…Actually, it’s back! Nearly three decades after going out of print, Metallica will release a remastered version of The $5.98 EP - Garage Days Re-Revisited as part of thir ongoing remasters series via their own Blackened Recordings label.

Originally released over 30 years ago on August 21, 1987, the collection features the band covering songs by early Metallica influencers such as Diamond Head, Holocaust, Killing Joke, Budgie, and The Misfits. The five songs from the EP were later included as a part of the 1998 multi-platinum release Garage, Inc., but the band felt it was time to bring it back in the original formats!

The $5.98 EP - Garage Days Re-Revisited was remastered by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering in Hollywood, CA.

Maximum Violenceis Americandeath metalbandSix Feet Under's 3rd studio album. Thealbum goes back toChris Barnes' roots inCannibal Corpsewith violent themes/lyrics. Itwas also the first Six Feet Under album to featureSteve Swansonon guitars.

In the summer of 2019, a newly formed, Oklahoma City-based rock band called Chat Pile would release its debut four-track EP, This Dungeon Earth. Little did anyone know at the time, but this initial taste of grotesque, confronting, and visceral noise rock courtesy of four slacker Okies would kick off the story of what would soon be one of the most widely lauded underground acts in years. Like the towering mounds of toxic waste from which it gets its namesake, Chat Pile’s body of work is emblematic of a distinctly midwestern flavor of American dread, with This Dungeon Earth being no exception to the rule. While raw in presentation, Chat Pile’s debut EP comes across as anything but a rough draft. Much of the band’s hallmark traits, spanning the unhinged vocals of frontman Raygun Busch, the grotesquely contorted guitar riffage, and the industrial smack of heavily processed percussion, appear as far back as this earliest chapter. If anything, the raw, DIY-rooted origins of these uncompromising thirteen minutes of sludged-out carnage make This Dungeon Earth all the more impactful. Between its biting social commentary and gratuitous grindhouse insanity, the unfiltered brutality of Chat Pile’s debut recording has seen tracks like “Rainbow Meat”, “Face”, and “Ratboy” become mainstays in its notorious live shows. Although it depicts the band’s monstrous amalgamation of noise rock, sludge metal, hardcore, and more as it is just beginning to congeal, This Dungeon Earth comes off as the furthest thing from a simple intro and more of an essential first chapter in Chat Pile’s story.

The fourth and last metal-album from Sweden's TIAMAT finally back on limited music cassette. A timeless classic!MC with 4-panel j-card, limited to 200 copies only.

Following the recent release of their acclaimed new full-length You Could Do It Tonight, Couch Slut re-emerge with a remastered, 10 year anniversary reissue of their debut album My Life As A Woman incoming December 13 via Brutal Panda Records.The self-produced album, originally released on Oct 13th, 2014, made an immediate splash in the underground due in large part to the band name and it’s controversial, confrontational artwork, but it was the music that took people by storm as written in the Hank Shteamer penned essay “Why Couch Slut Is Heavier Than Metal”.Out-of-print for years now, the 10 year anniversary reissue has been remastered by Matt Colton (Aphex Twin, Sunn O))), George Michael) and features the “shocking” original artwork tucked away safely under a censored paper bag slipcover. Along with expanded album art, the reissue is packaged with a nearly 40 page zine, written and compiled by Amy Mills with additional liner notes from the band and renowned music writer Hank Shteamer, chronicling their early years of cacophony.“Startlingly unique and contemporary...Unremittingly ugly.” - Pitchfork"Seriously fucking powerful" - The Quietus"a crushing mixture of hardcore, death metal and noise punk" - Metal Hammer“You can’t come away feeling relieved or happy from listening to Couch Slut, even if you’re one of the most deranged masochists out there.” - Spin"Megan Osztrosits is a merciless presence, a vocalist who can pierce Couch Slut's thick, rancid riffs with startling terror, howling about the depravity of humanity." - NPR"Scarier than every “black metal” band that’s barfed up dogshit in the entirety of the genre. Couch Slut is actually extreme." - Bandcamp Daily“Smart, adventurous, fearless songwriting.” - Stereogum 1. Little Girl Things (2024 Remaster)2. Lust Chamber (2024 Remaster)3. Replacement Addiction (2024 Remaster)4. Carpet Farmer (2024 Remaster)5. Rape Kit (2024 Remaster)6. Split Urethra Castle (2024 Remaster)

Cult Never Dies is proud to announce its partnership with Decrepid, the very first death metal band to release music with the underground metal publishing house and label! Based in London but with an international line-up, Decrepid first surfaced in the late 2000s, and eschewed the sterile and technical direction the genre was taking in favour of unapologetically aggressive and passionately morbid death metal, full of pummelling percussion, inhuman vocals and dirty, malevolent riffing. The band officially debuted in 2011 with the Devoted To Death album and quickly won an underground following, appealing to fans of well-written old-school death metal and vital acts like Dismember, Bolt Thrower, and Suffocation. Impressing industry legend Dave Rotten of Avulsed, the band was soon signed to his iconic label Xtreem Music, the product of this unholy union being 2015 opus Osseous Empire, and its devastating 2020 follow-up Endless Sea of Graves, both created with the help of respected producer Greg Chandler of Esoteric. The group has spent the intervening years touring with the likes of Krisiun and Nile and crafting new material. Now, they present the results: a crushing four-song EP entitled Lust for Death. With its uncompromising nature and energetic, visceral sound, this is an essential injection of aural violence for both longtime fans and new listeners! 1. Vortex of Chaos2. Lamia3. Ceremonies of the Tomb4. Vile Psychosis

NIFELHEIM's self-titled debut from 1995 has rightfully garnered the band much praise in the underground. Spawned at a time when myriads of bands were hopping on the bandwagon of nice black metal with cheesy keyboards and female vocals, this slab of abrasive old-school metal felt like a much-needed bold fuck you.Aptly titled songs like “Black curse”, “Sodomizer” or “Satanic Sacrifice” relentlessly grab for the throat. NIFELHEIM's amalgam of pummelling riffs occasionally interspersed with wailing solos, the vocalist`s demented shrieks resembling a rabid animal and the barbarous pounding drums make for one hell of a timeless debut.Now, after almost 30 years since this mean masterpiece was initially brought forth from the bowels of hell, it sees its long-overdue re-release on limited music cassette. Side Armageddon:1. The Devastation2. Black Curse3. Unholy Death4. Possessed By EvilSide Blasphemy:1. Sodomizer2. Satanic Sacrifice3. Storm Of Satans Fire4. Witchfuck

Death Metal trio, SHOCK WITHDRAWAL, unleash their debut full length The Dismal Advance. Mixed/mastered by Arthur Rizk (Power Trip, Cavalera Conspiracy, Tomb Mold), The Dismal Advance is a 21 minute high-BPM, trauma feedback loop of non-stop shredding, blastbeat precision, and feral sonic volatility that sharply executes a superb balance of riffs, groove and masterful instrumentation. Replete with nihilistic lyrics and post-apocalyptic imagery, The Dismal Advance is a stark reminder that hell can be a place on earth... and some of us live in it. SIDE A:1. Constant Fear Of Annihilation2. Sullen3. Autonomian4. Built To Suffer5. The Dismal Advance6. Oblivion Seeker7. Unfit For This World8. ResentmentSIDE B:1. Nightmare Conduit2. The Luxury Of Accepting Failure3. Pain Absorption Threshold4. Misery Calibration5. No Closure

Brazilian death metal super group, THE TROOPS OF DOOM, has finally revealed the first details about their forthcoming, sophomore studio offering! “A Mass To The Grotesque” will be unleashed on May 31, 2024 via Alma Mater Records, the Portuguese label run by MOONSPELL singer Fernando Ribeiro! 01. Solve Et Coagula - Introduction02. Chapels Of The Unholy03. Dawn of Mephisto04. Denied Divinity05. The Impostor King06. Faithless Requiem07. Psalm 78 - God of Bizarre08. Terror Inheritance09. The Grotesque10. Blood Upon The Throne11. Venomous Creed

Replica of the second TREBLINKA demo.MC with 4-panel fold-out j-card, limited to 200 copies only.

The legendary TREBLINKA EP for the first time on limited music cassette.MC with 3-panel j-card, limited to 200 copies only.

Replica of the first TREBLINKA demo.MC with 3-panel j-card, limited to 200 copies only.

The second album from TIAMAT finally back on limited music cassette.MC with 4-panel j-card, limited to 200 copies only.

Debut album re-mastered and re-released with original cover artwork (for the first time on vinyl!). Cult black metal act INQUISITION exploded from the underground with 2013's full-length 'Obscure Verses For The Multiverse'. Prior to the release of this critically-acclaimed masterpiece, the American duo had unleashed five other albums that all contributed in establishing INQUISITION as a rising black star on the extreme metal scene. Originally published in 1998 and long out of print outside of North America, 'Into the Infernal Regions of the Ancient Cult' already featured the band's trademark chainsaw riffs and ominous vocals croaking odes to the infinite and satanic alike. Foreshadowing INQUISITION's arrival as the new kings of darkness and now adorned with brand new cover art designed Paolo Girardi, the album's ten paeans to the occult are at once hostile, hypnotic, and bombastic. 1. Unholy Magic Attack2. Those of the Night3. The Initiation4. Empire of Luciferian Race5. Summoned by Ancient Wizards Under a Black Moon6. Journey to Infernukeorreka7. Into the Infernal Regions of the Ancient Cult8. Mighty Wargod of the Templars (Hail Baphomet)9. Solitary Death in the Nocturnal Woodlands10. Hail the Cult

Formed as early as 1987 and quickly making a name for themselves with their demos, Czech MASTER’S HAMMER are widely hailed as one of the most important formative Black Metal bands. Eccentric, odd, unmistakable and highly original are some of the words often used to characterize them. Although released more than 30 years ago, landmark albums such as Ritual and Jilemnický okultista, featuring vocals performed in their native Czech, have not lost an inch of relevance and are still essential pillars of the genre today.Having kept the band in limbo for 14 years after releasing the oddball Šlágry, MASTER’S HAMMER would re-enter the scene in 2009. Over the next years, they were busy unleashing five albums and performing many shows. Upon completing their South American tour in 2018, it was decided to bury the band for good.Fortunately, the very last MASTER’S HAMMER concert, which took place in Brno December 2018, was professionally recorded. To honour the legacy of this truly exceptional band, this – the final nail in the coffin of MASTER’S HAMMER – is now finally made available.Mixed and mastered by Honza Kapák at Hellsound Studio, Cestice, from May to June 2024. MC1:1. Intro2. Mezi Kopci Cesta Je Klikata3. Geniove4. Cerna Svatozar5. Estetika Dabla6. Ve Vezi Ticha7. Psychoparasit8. Linkola9. Pad Modly10. Zapalili Jsme Onen Svet11. TypografMC2:1. Vecny Navrat2. Panuska3. Nordfrostkrampfland4. Vracejte Konve Na Misto5. Vracejte Konve Na Misto6. Ja Mizerii Osudu Jsem Pronasledovan7. Sucharduv Dum8. Kazdy Z Nas9. Utok10. Jama Pekel

"Nightfloating", the 11th record by FORGOTTEN TOMB, comes after four years from the critically acclaimed "Nihilistic Estrangement" and it's an accurate picture of where the band stands these days, artistically; reinterpreting its Depressive Black Metal roots - a genre the band helped to define in the early 2000s with its classic first three records - in the light of its 25 years' experience, FORGOTTEN TOMB reinvigorates itself with a record that blends past and present, exploring darker territories and different shades of gray. From atmospheric cuts such as the anthemic title-track and the blistering "This Sickness Withered My Heart", to intricate yet harrowing songs such as "A Chill That You Can't Taint" and "Unsafe Spaces", the band tops it off with the surprising dungeon-synth detour of "Drifting" and the 10-minutes epic "A Despicable Gift", crafting an uncompromising yet refreshing album and setting itself apart once again from all bands that followed in its footsteps. From the first note to the last, "Nightfloating" sounds unmistakably like FORGOTTEN TOMB. 1. Nightfloating2. A Chill That You Can't Taint3. This Sickness Withered My Heart4. Unsafe Spaces5. Drifting6. A Despicable Gift

After having caused a great stir with their self-titled debut, on Devil's Force from 1998 the Swedish savages don't stray one inch from their path.NIFELHEIM's second full-length picks up the smouldering rubble from the debut and takes their unmistakable style up a notch. Aided by a slightly fuller but still gritty production, the album is a bludgeoning beast of dirty metal infused with lethal doses of satanic insanity. Filled to the brim with memorable songs Devil's Force is yet again an outright success and an indispensable underground-classic. Side A:1. Deathstrike From Hell2. The Final Slaughter3. Desecration Of The Dead4. Demonic EvilSide B:1. Satanic Mass2. Soldier Of Satan3. Devil’s Force4. Hellish Blasphemy

Austin, TX prog-metal quartet TRANSIT METHOD announce third full-length album Othervoid releasing on February 2, 2024 via Brutal Panda Records. Othervoid was produced by Charles Godrey at Scary American Studios in Austin, TX (Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Third Eye Blind, Whiskey Myers, Holy Wave), mastered by Dan Shike at Tone and Volume Mastering (Meat Puppets, Third Eye Blind, Larkin Poe) and features incredible album art from Marald van Haasteren (Metallica, Kvelertak, Gost). Othervoid marks the prog-metal quartet's most bludgeoning, infectious and ambitious album to date. Brothers Matt LoCoco (vocals/guitar) and Mike LoCoco (drums) are joined by new members Bryan Rolli (guitars/vocals) and live Panopticon violinist Charlie Anderson (bass) cementing the band's definitive lineup.Othervoid's seven tracks show the breadth of the band's songwriting. The punk-metal riffs and dueling guitars of "Psychometry" evoke Mutoid Man and Iron Maiden, while the vocal harmonies and trad-metal gallop of "The Outside" recall Mastodon and Thin Lizzy. The album reaches its astonishing climax on "Frostbite", a shapeshifting, nine-minute epic inspired by the 2021 freeze that left millions of Texans stranded at home without power and claimed hundreds of lives.Othervoid is the result of years of turmoil and triumph. With their future uncertain, Transit Method charged into the eye of the storm and emerged on the other side with the strongest album of their career. The path was challenging, unpredictable and exhilarating - just like Othervoid. SIDE A:1. Into Your Mind2. Nightmare Machines3. Psychometry4. Another Wasted LifeSIDE B:1. The Outside2. Savage Creatures3. Frostbite

Reading, PA technical death metal phenoms RIVERS OF NIHIL have teamed up with Brutal Panda Records to release their critically acclaimed debut full-length The Conscious Seed Of Light. Originally released in 2012 by Metal Blade Records, The Conscious Seed Of Light was recorded by Erik Rutan (Morbid Angel, Hate Eternal) at Mana Studios in Florida and featured 10 tracks of intelligent and infectious, technically proficient death metal. Cover art was handled by the legendary Dan Seagrave (Entombed, Morbid Angel, etc.) SIDE A:1. Terrestria I: Thaw2. Rain Eater3. Birth Of The Omnisavior4. Soil & Seed5. Central AntheneumSIDE B:1. Mechanical Trees2. Place Of Serpents3. Human Adaptation4. A Fertile Altar5. Airless

Topping their full-length debut is no elementary task; Terrorizer Magazine declared that Rivers of Nihil 'manage to do something unashamedly modern, and yet make death metal sound twisted and malevolent', while HeavyBlogisHeavy.com simply noted that it was 'definitely one of the best debuts to come out this year'. With Monarchy, Reading, PA's Rivers of Nihil take a huge leap forward songwriting, performance, and production-wise. SIDE A:1. Heirless2. Perpetual Growth Machine3. Reign Of Dreams4. Sand Baptism5. Ancestral, I6. DehydrateSIDE B:1. Monarchy2. Terrestria II: Thrive3. Circles In The Sky4. Suntold

Bellingham, WA duo MELANCHOLIA have announced their debut album Book of Ruination. Formed in 2018, the duo has already released three EPs that have made waves through the underground. Book of Ruination, their most ambitious release to date, is a meditation into the void of sonic darkness and esoteric philosophy… an immense journey through life, death, and what lies beyond.True to its name, MELANCHOLIA explores dread and anguish in all of its malformed glory through the lenses of crushing doom/sludge, ferocious black metal/death metal and raw, primitive crust punk. Unified by bleak lyrical themes, suffocating atmosphere, psychedelic dissonance and striking visual art by vocalist/guitarist Gage Lindsay, MELANCHOLIA exist to push the boundaries of extreme music.Book of Ruination was recorded at The Unknown Studio in Anacortes, WA with Rich Canut III. The album was mastered by Adam Pike (Red Fang, Murder by Death) and Nate Abner (Graves at Sea). SIDE A:1. Ode To Ruination2. Sunscathed3. Circadian Throes4. Yersinia In BloomSIDE B:1. No Place Of Honor2. Caught In Eternity’s Jaws3. Din Of Gangrene Angels

Cassette edition of the SHINING cover album! Made in a collaboration between The Sinister Initiative and Darkness Shall Rise. SIDE A:1. For My Demons (Katatonia cover)2. Utan dina andetag (Kent cover)3. Kung av jidder (Imperiet cover)4. Carnival of Rust (Poets of the Fall cover)SIDE B:1. In the Cold Light of Morning (Placebo cover)2. No Rest for the Wicked (The Coffinshakers cover)3. Cry Little Sister (Marilyn Manson cover)4. Ohne Dich (Rammstein cover)

The first 7 albums from black metal masters INQUISITION finally available again on limited music cassette! SIDE A:1. Astral Path to Supreme Majesties2. Command of the Dark Crown3. Desolate Funeral Chant4. Cosmic Invocation RitesSIDE B:1. Conjuration2. Upon the Fire Winged Demon3. Ominous Doctrines of the Perpetual Mystical Macrocosm4. Crepuscular Battle Hymn5. Hymn for a Dead Star6. Across the Abyss Ancient Horns Bray

DSR is proud to announce a new collaboration with one of Europe’s most promising and interesting new death metal bands up to date.A festering entity (de)composed of dwellers from the Viennese underworld. Let their ri-laden, rotten death metal lead you on a pilgrimage into the furthest corridors of morbidity.Metalstorm's Review (metalstorm.net) about Pilgrims of Morbidity: "This release is irresistibly repugnant; it is dripping all sorts of revolting liquids, and you can bet your ass that they all smell disgustingly awful. If you ever feel like lurking in a suffocating, dark, and bat-filled cave, or if you get an urge to open up a coffin at your local cemetery and desecrate its content, Pilgrims of Morbidity should be on your headphones. The band has a knack for groove, and the fact that Brenton Weir from MOLTEN CHAINS is behind FESSUS explains a lot. The cavernous riffs are paired with sickening growls and some blazing drumming, and this demo is pure delight for fans of old-school, rotten death metal, who get satisfaction when the riffs make them pick up their jaw from the floor."Pro-tape, limited to 250 copies 1. Acidic Secretion2. Pilgrims of Morbidity 3. Unmoored

Cassette edition of Tuomas Tahvanainen's debut album! Made in a collaboration between The Sinister Initiative and Darkness Shall Rise.To put COLD PROPHET in a category is not that easy, but if a description is needed, the term that we here at TSI have chosen when describing the band is simply: Death-Industrial. Regardless of genre, the world was made aware of Tuomas Tahvanainen and his pernicious intentions as late as in 2022, when the self-titled, double-disc debut album was released. As per the Artists own wishes the release was purposedly marketed in a very discreet and somewhat low-key fashion, but after a while COLD PROPHET became like a whisper in a classroom, or the writings on a classroom wall, because suddenly we noticed that there was a rather extensive demand for more of the Finnish Prophets trademarked void-inducing darkness. SIDE A:1. Full of Hope, Melting Faces2. First Appearance3. Crematorium Lust4. Halls of SufferingSIDE B:1. Malignant Entity 2. Black Energy Fields 3. Inhaling Bones 4. Shapeless and Merciless

Another pure masterwork only this time with even more symphonic elements, i.e. flutes, violines, chellos, harpsicords, etc. Another element that adds to the appeal is the outstanding opera vocals of Sue Bock, who has an amazing voice. This particular album is a concept album based on a book, also titled "Within the Ancient Forest" written by bassist/vocalist Andrew Tompkins. The story is of a young man in search of truth in a land where immortals, dragons, magic, and the powers of darkness prevail. I have never read the book, but the music is fabulous, even without the storyline. Available on limited edition cassette - only 100 units - for the first time ever!

The crown jewel of Finnish Death Metal, reissued in a band-approved new 30th anniversary edition. Features a new vinyl master from the original source by Noise for Fiction, plus a booklet with a lengthy feature by Hippo Taatila and some visual memorabilia. As an added vinyl bonus there's a large poster by the original cover artist Rob Smits creating a new vision of the album cover for the new millennium.

Together with bands like Demilich, Abhorrence, Disgrace, Xysma and Sentenced, Demigod from the wastelands of Loimaa, southern Finland, put Finland on the map in the global death metal scene in the late 80's and early 90's. Having risen to underground fame with their demo Unholy Domain, Slumber of Sullen Eyes was a hugely expected debut album. When it was finally released in 1992 after a complicated creation process at Tico-Tico Studios in northern Finland, it was received with open arms and drooling excitement by the then very active underground death metal scene.

That scene was, however, short lived,and by 1994 pretty much every band had switched from death metal to something else entirely. What was left after the bands had left the building was a number of classic albums that constitute the legacy of Finnish Death Metal. Among them, Slumber of Sullen Eyes is one of the most original and ferocious. There was nobody like Demigod.

Svart Records are proud to reissue this remarkable and quite hard to find album on CD, vinyl and tape.

Sweden’s Gehennah is back to stink up the scene once again, with their fourth full length album Too Loud To Live, Too Drunk To Die. This marks the bands album-debut on Metal Blade Records, and the first full length album by Gehennah since 1997's Decibel Rebel. The album contains 13 tracks of dirty and raw street-metal, destined to please the hardcore filth hounds of the scene, and annoy the ponytailed internet-snobs who prefer their metal clean and polished.

‘Exul’ personifies Ne Obliviscaris’ distinctive, boundary-pushing ethos. The band’s trademark blend of emotion and beauty is as towering as ever, if not even more compelling, particularly how the haunting violin lines carefully weave their way around the riffs. The duality of Charles’ clean vocals and Xenoyr’s growls remains the narrative anchor, elevating songs that emanate sophistication and are a masterclass in composition.

The outlaws from down under deliver another pummeling and relentless lesson in aggression with full length number 6(66). ‘Never Surrender’ is a furious assault of black thrash, chainsaw riffs, and warlike drums, offering no moment of reprisal as it rages on for 40 unyielding minutes. With this offering, Deströyer 666 takes no prisoners! 1. Never Surrender 2. Andraste 3.Guillotine 4. Pitch Black Night 5. Mirror's Edge 6. Grave Raiders 7. Savage Rights 8. Rather Death 9. Batavia's Graveyard

14 brand-new songs of destruction and dastardly deeds. Worth it’s weight in crack, this is the soundtrack for The New Dark Ages. The album is loosely based on their new graphic novel which is on sale in comic book stores simultaneously. In addition, their award winning documentary This Is Gwar will be showing in theaters and on streaming platforms this Summer. Interest in the band is reaching a new peak following their wildly successful fall 2021 headline tour which included many sold out dates. Blothar is also now a monthly recurring “alien correspondent” on Gutfeld which airs weekly on Fox News.

Svart Records presents a legitimate tape reissue of this cult Finnish death metal demo tape from 1990 in a facsimile edition limited to 200 copies.

There’s a real sense of loss on Brooklyn experimental black metalists SCARCITY’s debut album Aveilut, an inescapable presence of the realities of death. Multi-instrumentalist Brendon Randall-myers (conductor of the Glenn Branca Ensemble since Branca’s passing) wrote Aveilut while processing the sudden deaths of two people close to him, tracked it while caught in Beijing’s first lockdown of 2020, and finished it while surrounded by the overwhelming plague visuals of New York’s early Covid peak. Back in Brooklyn, vocalist Doug Moore (of Pyrrhon, Weeping Sores, Glorious Depravity, and Seputus) soon found himself in the midst of an equally bleak lockdown experience—living next to a funeral home when New York City was America’s Covid epicenter. From conception through development, tangible death surrounded Aveilut. The result of such a profound closeness with death is this grief-stricken release, which takes its name from the Hebrew word for mourning. 72-note octaves, alternate tunings, psychoacoustic phenomena and macro-phrases embody the hugeness of loss, the inexplicable space of death’s void that Randall-Myers faced both on a personal and existential scale. Together with Moore’s gripping vocal delivery and stark lyrics, the album takes the form of a hyperobject, an entity with such vastness and reach that it’s difficult for the human mind to comprehend. Consisting of one 45-minute composition, the music is black metal roughly in the vein of Jute Gyte, Krallice, Mare Cognitum, and Enhare—with hefty doses of post-Branca microtonal guitar abuse, and a cinematic scope that draws on Randall-Myers’ work with orchestras. Aveilut’s mathematical abstraction and lyrical focus on the greatness of the void breed raw emotion, attempting to represent a catastrophe, the vastness and inevitability of things outside one’s control, as well as a direct expression of grief, a kind of requiem. Though born of Randall-Myers and Moore’s intense intimacy with absence, Aveilut is an attempt to present a harrowing universal representation of death’s true form.

Limited tape edition of this Black Metal classic!
Includes patch

This Black Metal masterpiece has now been remastered by Dan Swanö (Edge Of Sanity, Bloodbath, Nightingale etc.).

Terminus' is a varied yet still cohesive album that leaves the crushing heaviness of jesu’s early material behind for the most part while also containing their most introverted emotive cold spaces. following the EP “never” which was released earlier last year, this is jesu’s first full-length release since 2013’s “every day I get closer to the light from which I came”. The space between these two albums is significant as in the interim jesu main man Justin Broadrick resurrected the beyond cult and inimitable Godflesh. Fold out cover with deluxe multi-panel spot gloss art variation. Includes digital download code.

Brand new album from British heavy metal flagbearers Seven Sisters!! ‘Shadow of A Falling Star Pt.1’ is the follow up to 2016’s ‘The Cauldron and the Cross’, a release which earned rave reviews and saw them tour extensively in Europe with Haunt.

In cooperation with Metal Blade, Subsounds Records has announced an exclusive, limited Tape edition of the upcoming Cannibal Corpse album. The album title already tells you everything you need to know about Cannibal Corpse's fifteenth hellish opus. Comprised of eleven brutal tracks, Violence Unimagined is state of the art death metal played with passion and breathless precision, making for another flawless addition to what is inarguably one of the premier catalogues the genre has thrown up. “It really follows the path we’ve been going down for a few years now,” states bassist and founding member Alex Webster. “I think we approach the writing in a similar way most every time: each of us try to write the heaviest, most memorable songs we can. We want each song to have its own identifiable character. Showing my age, I like to say you can ‘drop the needle’ on any point of one of our albums and quickly tell which song you’re listening to.” While they continue to do what they do with aplomb, the one substantial change to Cannibal Corpse is the addition of guitarist Erik Rutan to their ranks, joining Webster, founding drummer Paul Mazurkiewicz, guitarist Rob Barrett and vocalist George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher. Known for his roles in Morbid Angel, Ripping Corpse and most notably fronting the mighty Hate Eternal, Rutan has long established himself as one of the most dynamic forces in contemporary death metal. Simultaneously, he has built up a reputation as one of the most in demand producers in metal, having previously produced four Cannibal Corpse albums (in addition to Violence Unimagined), alongside the likes of Goatwhore, Soilent Green and Belphegor. Filling in live on guitar since 2019, in 2020 he became a full member, contributing to the writing process. Already well known for the level of extreme technicality they bring to every record, on Violence Unimagined, Cannibal Corpse have further upped their game, particularly in Mazurkiewicz’s drumming. “I think we all pushed ourselves a bit technically on this one, with Paul probably pushing the hardest. This album is probably the most drum-intense album we’ve done yet. Part of that could be a result of Erik joining the band. His song writing style often features technically challenging drumming, probably owing to his years of experience in high speed death metal.” And with typically dark and warped lyrical content, Mazurkiewicz came up with the fitting title of the record, “summing up what the band is about in every facet, and taking violence to another level of extremity.”

If classic outputs from DARKTHRONE, ENSLAVED, EMPEROR or ISENGARD et al. make your blood boil, you should make sure to purchase HERSIR's album and immerse yourself in its Northern Black Metal excellence.Despite having already been incepted in 2016 by Grim Vindkall who is primarily known for his band DOMGÅRD, Swedish HERSIR have up until this point kept a rather low profile. With only three demos to their name – none of which released physically – the horde has remained a rather obscure entity.Once released, chances are that the sheer quality of HERSIR's first full-length effort Hateful Draugar From The Underground will rectify that situation in no time, though. Completely devoid of unnecessary gimmicks of any sorts, HERSIR are all content and no show. For a change, everything – the well-written lyrics dealing with Nordic spirituality of the shadow side, the music, the visual presentation – feels genuine and without any infantile pretence.Their very aptly titled album convinces with hateful and majestic Black Metal of a distinctively northern nature. The vocals brimming with contempt and savagery are one of the highlights of the full-length. Vocalist Haugbúi's rather low, raspy tone and pestilent delivery seem like the perfect fit for HERSIR's rather simple and stripped-down compositions. Overtly complex structures are left out to augment the war-like quality of the recording and in favour of conjuring epic atmospheres often built upon melodies stemming from the old Nordic tradition. The impact of some of the memorable riffs is further increased by the sporadic inclusion of keyboards.Overall, this album is the real deal and deserves to be attentively listened to by anyone into genuinely dark Black Metal.Mastered by Patrick W. Engel at Temple Of Disharmony. Side A:1. Dauðvána2. Hateful Draugar From The Underground3. The Ironclad Fighters Of Hjaðningavíg4. The Fiddler5. Walking The Way Of GiantsSide B:1. Holocaust Winter2. Valgaldr3. Purification By Fire4. Blood Runs From The Hörgr5. Divinations At The Old Springs

The new and highly acclaimed album of US-based cosmic Death Metal travellers BLOOD INCANTATION for the first time on music cassette.Transparent tape, 4-panel j-card, lim. 300 Side A:1. The StargateSide B:1. The Message

Persekutor 'Snow Business' is pure black 'n roll heavy metal majesty.Conceived in a forgotten corner of Eastern Europe, PERSEKUTOR channel the tradition of early black metal champions like Venom, Celtic Frost and Bathory through the unflinching hard rock efficiency of AC/DC into their own infectious strain of Carpathian heaviness.No album ever demanded to be launched back through time and inserted as score into Escape from New York or The Warriors more convincingly than Snow Business. Bask in its glory or flee for your pathetic life.First album 'Permanent Winter' was on tastemaker label Svart Records!

The album will be the last recorded testimony before the definitive dissolution of the band. The release will be followed by a farewell tour, which will last throughout 2025. After which the curtain will fall.'Arimortis' is a term of Latin origin which indicates the end of a war, the moment in which the fallen are honoured and altars are erected in their name ('arae mortis', the altars of death). Even today in some parts of Italy the term 'arimo' is used to declare the end of the games. We wanted to use this allegory to seal a path that lasted forty years, full of satisfactions, disappointments and revenge. The songs that make up the album contain several references to our long career".

"Invisible Threads" is a sonic assault that penetrates the darkest depths of existence. This album explores themes of human degradation, unspoken fears, and wars that ravage not only bodies but also minds. A fierce manifestation of death metal, "Invisible Threads" overwhelms the listener with a crescendo of sonic brutality and raw emotions_an unrelenting frontal impact from the first to the last track, destined to leave a lasting mark.

"Gudatall" Music Cassette Edition. Limited to 100 pcs on white cassette.

“Gudatall” by Murg offers a stark reflection on humanity’s cyclical failures and the looming retribution of nature. This compelling creation, rooted in the bleak landscapes of rural Sweden, channels the essence of black metal’s golden era while forging a path of its own. With “Gudatall”, Murg explores themes of isolation, ecological despair, and the inevitable return to our primal state, all through a meticulously crafted sound that resonates with the cold, harsh beauty of the wilderness.

"Strävan" Music Cassette Edition. Limited to 100 pcs on solid grey cassette.

“Strävan” is the third opus from the enigmatic yet revered Swedish black metal duo Murg. Embarking on a sinister and sombre journey, the album is driven by deliberate, slow-paced riffs that emanate stoic darkness and fierce pride. Murg embrace a musical minimalism that cuts straight to the bone, defying simplicity and predictability. “Strävan” stands tall and unwavering in its unyielding intensity – as a resolute farewell to creation itself.