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High Roller Records, reissue 2023, white/ blue mixed vinyl, ltd 450, 425gsm heavy cardboard cover, lyric sheet, poster, mastered for vinyl by Patrick W. Engel at Temple of Disharmony, lacquer cutting by SST

After the glorious Wormboiler cassette tape compilation obliterated human ears in 2021, American one-man black industrial weapon Uranium finally emerges from the depths of oblivion with its debut full-length album An Exacting Punishment, a five-track, forty-minute radioactive nightmare of complete sonic ruin channelling the darkness of black metal with the scathing immensity of defining post-industrial acts like Brighter Death Now, Godflesh, Wolf Eyes, Swans, MZ. 412, Controlled Bleeding, and Genocide Organ. As the band's name aptly hints at, Uranium was conceived as an aural vessel to explore the outer limits and the most irreversible states of complete human disintegration, and the incineration of its most defining and triumphant achievements; namely society, progress, technology, and civilization, with nuclear power being the conduit and ultimate engine of the greatest and most horrific forms of total annihilation mankind could ever face. Auditory terror both permeates and defines Uranium's music, with bludgeoning and majestic post-industrial soundscapes pulsing inside a lightless void lit only by drifting embers and falling ash, while immense infernal atmospherics wrap their deathly spires around the listener, crushing them into a distorted auditory abyss. Power electronics, industrial noise and black metal have rarely before been seen chained together and weaponized into such a mortal design. An authentic weapon of mass annihilation engineered to face human life with absolute death. A death-scarred reality that emerges from the utter bleakness and ruination of Uranium's apocalyptic design, as the listener is cast at the center of a caustic nuclear nightmare where flesh boils and evaporates off bone, cells erratically split into endless deformities and the world is turned into a mangled, corroded and disfigured radioactive oblivion.

High Roller Records, COMMEMORATIVE EDITION, 40 YEARS OF UNLIMITED THRASH 1982–2022, picture vinyl, ltd 500, individually numbered, 425gsm heavy cardboard cover, insert, printed inner sleeve, 2 posters, mastered for vinyl by Patrick W. Engel at Temple of Disharmony, original 1985 sound

Black vinyl, insert

Green Lung are “Britain’s finest folk horror -indebted heavy metalers” (The Guardian), and this is where it all started for the band in 2018. The five track demo recording Free The Witch, including the bonus track When The Axe Comes Down, now reissued on standalone vinyl.

Remastered for vinyl by the spectacular John Davis (Lana Del Rey, Led Zeppelin, Royal Blood…) at Metropolis Studios in the UK and adorned by striking covert art by the band’s perennial collaborator Richard Wells.

Start digging your bomb shelters: WEREWOLVES are releasing their third full-length album ‘From the Cave to the Grave’ 24th June 2022. "‘From The Cave to The Grave’ keeps up the searing pace of the first two WEREWOLVES albums, with a mix of black and death metal and unprecedented aggression that is coalescing into a style of its own. Opener ‘Self-Help Book Burning’ kicks the door in Hate Eternal-style before deforming into a blackened ending worthy of Marduk. It’s followed by stadium crowd-pleaser ‘We Are Better Than You’, blaster ‘All the Better to Eat You With’, and social credit score-destroyer ‘Crushing Heaven’s Mandate’. ‘Harvest of the Skulls’ is an ode to the horror of genocide and the rest of the album blasts through to closing threat ‘Watch Your Mouth’, leaving you to enjoy your ringing ears and mild trauma.

Originally released on March 3, 2002, “The Shadows Madame” is Cadaveria debut album. This 20th anniversary vinyl edition, limited to 200 copies worldwide, will come out on March 3rd 2022, exactly 20 years after the very first release of the album. The Shadows' Madame was recorded and mixed at Capitan Woofer Studio, Italy, between September and November 2001. Produced by Cadaveria. Engineered by John DNA. Mastered by Alberto Cutolo at Massive Arts Studios, Italy. Cadaveria is the creative alter ego of the Italian metal singer Raffaella Rivarolo, better known by the stage name Cadaveria, one of the first women to enter the extreme metal scene in early nineties. Their personal sound is imbued with dark and sinister atmospheres and mixes Black with classic heavy metal, death and gothic influences. The lyrics, intriguing, hermetic and introspective, reflect the dark soul and the annoyed personality of the singer.

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