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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

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!

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.

Formed by vocalist Glenn Danzig in 1983, immediately following his departure from the Misfits, and active until 1987, Samhain are one of the most influential horror punk bands of all :times. Live tracks from legendary performances at Cabaret Metro in Chicago, Wabash Hall in San Diego, previously unreleased studio outtakes and more rare tracks who'd appeal to all Misfits/Danzig die-hards out there.

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.

Sarcofago’s third album is somewhat of a departure from the band’s previous two outings. A more technical musical approach takes hold as the band builds upon the madness created by INRI and ROTTING. "The Laws of Scourge" offers some classic Sarcofago songs such as "Midnight Queen", and "Screeches from the Silence". This Greyhaze reissue features pristine dynamic mastering. For fans of Mayhem, Beherit, Black Witchery and all Metal. Side A1. THE LAWS OF SCOURGE2. PIERCINGS3. MIDNIGHT QUEENSide B1. THE BLACK VOMIT2. PRELUDE TO A SUICIDE3. SCREECHES FROM THE SILENCE4. SECRETS OF A WINDOW

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 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)

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.

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

2nd album from this "all-star" raw punk / d-beat band coming out from Sweden. If you miss Totalitär - you are at the right place. Why "all-star" band? Just imagine current line-up members and their experiences in bands like Warcollapse, Slutet, Totalitär (eh!), Dischange, Krigshot, Makabert Fynd, Dissekerad, Krig I Hudik, Katastrof, Institution, Brainbombs, Napalm A.D., Desperate Fix, Kvoteringen, Meanwhile, Disfear, No Security or Ääritila ... and many more. This is album of the year!

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.

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

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

"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

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

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)

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

After a seven year slumber which Lucifer's Child slipped into following its last full-length record "The Order" - a slumber veiled in shadow and silence - the Greek atmospheric black metal quartet reawakens the fire which never fully ceased to burn or amaze. In a phoenix-like reprise, the group channels the heights of its esoteric ponder and the depths of its harrowing despair into "The Illuminant". The album marks a profound evolution in Lucifer's Child sound, aspiring to a journey deeper into the abyss and the emotions, where the extreme meets the melodic, and the unseen becomes manifest. 1. Antichrist2. As Bestas3. The Serpent And The Rod4. Ichor5. Righteous Flama6. Curse7. The Heavens Die8. And All Is Prelude

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 last EP from 2023 of US-based cosmic Death Metal travellers BLOOD INCANTATION.Transparent tape, slip-case, lim. 200 1. Obliquity of the Ecliptic2. Luminescent Bridge

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.

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

The legendary TIAMAT EP finally back on limited music cassette.MC with 3-panel j-card, limited to 200 copies only.

MERCILESS' first album The Awakening broke forth into the world in 1990. It also happened to become the very first release on Euronymous' then newly founded infamous label Deathlike Silence Productions. Prior to their legendary Death/Thrash masterpiece, MERCILESS cut their teeth recording two demos, Behind the Black Door and Realm of the Dark. Released in 1987 und 1988 respectively, both are naturally rather raw affairs but what they may lack in proficiency and sound quality, is made up for by unbridled ferocity and MERCILESS' youthful enthusiasm.These two demos are important historical relics and a peephole into times long past by one of Sweden's pioneering bands that alongside e.g. OBSCURITY or MORBID paved the way for the Swedish (and beyond) Black- and Death Metal scene.Music cassette, 6-panel j-card. Limited to 300 copies.All songs have been carefully restored and remastered by Patrick W. Engel at the Temple of Disharmony studio. SIDE A:1. Total Destruction2. Bestial Death3. Satanic Slaughters4. Behind the Black DoorSIDE B:5. Realm of the Dark6. Souls of the Dead7. Nuclear Attack8. Dreadful Fate

HELL MILITIA, an assemblage of the vilest and most depraved individuals the French underground has spawned who have earned themselves a bad reputation by participating in among others MÜTIILATION, ARKHON INFAUSTUS and TEMPLE OF BAAL burst onto the scene with their first full length in 2005. Preceded only by an appearance on a split 7" and a demo, the aptly titled Canonisation of the Foul Spirit was unleashed to wreak havoc and soil anything pure and holy in utter contempt.The album comprises 10 tracks (Psalms) with a professional but not too clean studio production allowing for each instrument to be easily distinguished from one another without resulting in sounding polished or sterile. The riffs which are not too far removed from what one can hear on some of the albums the members have had a hand in and the quality of the songwriting disclose the fact that HELL MILITIA are anything but newcomers. The demented vocals that grace jolly carols like “Burning Human Pigs”, “Prophecy from the Mutilated Children” or “Black Fucking Cancer” are cantillated by none other than Meyhnach from MÜTIILATION. Listening to him preaching the false gospel and spewing foul bile in his characteristic, unmistakable way of madness is certainly one of the highlights of Canonisation of the Foul Spirit.MC with 5-panel j-card, limited to 200 copies only. SIDE A:1. Psalm I – Burning Human Pigs2. Psalm II – Torture Of The Saints3. Psalm III – Black Arts Of Crime4. Psalm IV – Prophecy From The Mutilated Children5. Psalm V – Dead Children’s ChoirSIDE B:6. Psalm VI – Black Fucking Cancer7. Psalm VII – Blood From The Pig8. Psalm VIII – Goathrone9. Psalm IX – Ritual10. Psalm X – Years Ago

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

NORTHTRIP AMONG THE STORMS…Active since 1995 and with 5 previous full-lengths under their belts, Russian OLD WAINDS are back on the frozen field.Picking up where they left off with their previous album, the predominantly fast-paced “Stormheart” reveals itself as ice-cold, yet melancholic and introspective at the same time. Driven by stunning guitar work, completely devoid of unnecessary gimmicks and vocals slightly distorted, OLD WAINDS delivered one of the best Black Metal albums of the last couple of years.Mastered by Jack Control and Maor Appelbaum.Dark Nordic Metal from the icy wastes of Murmansk.Grim, cold and majestic as it should be… Side A:1. Watch The Midnight Unveil2. Northern Starfall3. Of Night And Ice4. In The Heart Of The StormSide B:5. The Eternal, The Dead, The Arcane6. To The Moonlight7. Snow Swarm

Permanently on the lookout for new blood, Darkness Shall Rise productions are delighted to proffer its latest discovery.Having concocted their curious amalgam in secrecy for several years Germany-based AIVVASS come out of the shadows to reveal their aptly-titled EPs Occult Rites I & II.Named after the non-corporeal being which Aleister Crowley claimed to have dictated his ‘Liber AL vel Legis’ it takes no wonder that the obscure band`s creations are profoundly steeped in Thelemic magick and occult lore.Expertly oscillating between bludgeoning heaviness and acoustic serenity the compositions of AIVVASS take the listener on a stunning ride between polarities. Mellow Neo-Folk accompanied by clean singing are effortlessly intertwined with down-tuned Doom riffs and evocative growling of a bestial nature. The predominantly mid-paced songs like the masterfully crafted “Lucifer” or “Witchcraft” unfold a meditative quality by means of numerous repetitions of each arrangement. Adding to the atmospherically dense recordings are various samples including invocations by The Great Beast himself.If you like Doom Metal, Neofolk, maybe shoegaze and post-rock as well, you definitely should give it a try.Fiends of the dark arts and aficionados of obscure sonic manifestation alike: COME TO THE SABBATH! SIDE A:Occult Rites I1. Aivvass2. Satan3. Baphomet4. LuciferSIDE B:Occult Rites II5. Crucifixion6. Witchcraft7. Cremation of Care8. The Ghoul (PENTAGRAM cover)

After three highly acclaimed albums Envoy Of Lucifer represents the fourth and last full-length of NIFELHEIM.Originally released in 2007, the album is certainly the most professional out of the bunch. Benefitting from a rather clean all-analogue production and many years as musicians under their belts the record, most notably, surprises with intricate arrangements, proficient guitar solos and the introduction of new elements to NIFELHEIM's sound.Hellbutcher's and Tyrant's lifelong worship of IRON MAIDEN has never been more apparent than on Envoy Of Lucifer too.Despite all this, the album is still 100% NIFELHEIM with all of their trademarks from previous releases intact. Side A:1. Infernal Flame of Destruction2. Evocation of the End3. Gates of Damnation4. Claws of Death5. Storm of the ReaperSide B:1. Envoy of Lucifer2. Evil Is Eternal3. Raging Flames4. Belial’s Prey5. No More Life

Grinding death newcomers, SHOCK WITHDRAWAL, make extreme music for extreme times. Comprising a trio of diehards from the heavy music scene (Maruta, Mos Generator, Nitesoil, etc.), SHOCK WITHDRAWAL blast, grind and churn through six tracks of aggressive groove infused velocity that pay homage to both death metal and grindcore on their debut self-titled EP. A meditation on the crippling effects of trauma, self-destruction and pessimism, SHOCK WITHDRAWAL give the listener a stark reminder that our world continues to burn both inside and out. Recorded by Travis Bacon at Svart Sound and mastered by Arthur Rizk (Power Trip, Cavalera Conspiracy, Municipal Waste, Turnstile) with suffocating artwork by Primitive Man's Ethan Lee McCarthy.For Fans Of: Misery Index, Cattle Decapitation, Lock Up, Napalm Death, Wormrot, Nasum, Rotten Sound, Pig Destroyer, Full of Hell 1. Rejection Cycle2. Nadir Of Humanity3. Contrition4. Despair Ratio5. Wounded6. Guided By Paranoia

True to its name, Bellingham WA’s MELANCHOLIA explores dread and anguish in all of its malformed glory. Unified by bleak lyrical themes, suffocating atmosphere, dissonance and striking visual art, Melancholia exist to push the boundaries of extreme music. Formed in 2018, the duo has already released three EPs that have made waves through the underground. Static Church, 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. 1. Silence in the Static Church2. Eternal Exodus3. Chthonic Hymn

Taken from the word ‘constellation’, Constellatia refers to the nature of existence and the natural world, the cosmos, and extracting meaning and happiness from it all. The band’s sombre take on progressive black metal encapsulates inherently human subjects; a distillation of life’s meander, sadness and tribulations.Released in 2019, Constellatia’s debut album, The Language of Limbs (Season of Mist / Isolation), sounds bleak and tends to instil a sense of longing within the listener, it too sparks an idyllic feeling of catharsis with the mesmerizing atmospheric soundscapes and subtle intoxicating harmonies. SIDE A:1. All Nights Belong To You2. In AcclamationSIDE B:1. Empyrean2. The Garden

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

The first 7 albums from black metal masters INQUISITION finally available again on limited music cassette! SIDE A:1. Baptized in Black Goat Blood2. Crush the Jewish Prophet3. Under the Black Inverted Pentagram4. Of Blood and Darkness We Are Born5. Dark Mutilation Rites6. Magnificent Glorification of LuciferSIDE B:1. Impaled by the Cryptic Horns of Baphomet2. We Summon the Winds of Fire (For the Burning of All Holiness)3. Eternal Loyalty to Our Lord Satan4. Within the Red Hellfire We Burn5. May the Rays of a Fullmoon Shine upon Us6. Outro

The first 7 albums from black metal masters INQUISITION finally available again on limited music cassette! SIDE A:1. Unholy Magic Attack2. Those of the Night3. The Initiation4. Empire of Luciferian Race5. Summoned by Ancient Wizards Under a Black MoonSIDE B:1. Journey to Infernukeorreka2. Into the Infernal Regions of the Ancient Cult3. Mighty Wargod of the Templars (Hail Baphomet)4. Solitary Death in the Nocturnal Woodlands5. Hail the Cult

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

A new and mysterious project from Finland. Raw and captivating black metal with a pinch of dungeon synth. Feel the ancient flame…Mastered by Patrick W. Engel at TEMPLE OF DISHARMONY in July 2023.Pro-tape, limited to 150 copies SIDE A:1. I2. IISIDE B:3. III4. IV

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.

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.