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5th Faction - 5th Faction Short lived metallized hardcore from New York. Managed to turn out this one EP before breaking up while on tour due to financial problems. It's good stuff if you dig the sound of a bunch of New York hardcore kids listening to a lot of Pantera and the like. At least I like it. |
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Aboriorth - Far Away From Hateful Mankind Plague A strange yet very good combination here: war black metal ala Niden Div. 187 meets epic, melodic, somewhat ambient black metal such as Nihternnes. The result is music that captures both the realistic and romantic essence of war; you can expect lots of fierce blasting and tremolo riffing contrasting with almost Keep Of Kalessin-style upward thrusts into glory. Very nice. |
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Aiwass - Sufferage Universal Fantastic traditional black metal with surprisingly quality production for a demo. Solid, epic riffing is backed by an engaging, complex drum performance, venomous vocals, and complex lyrics and musical themes. Definitely worth a look from all dedicated black metal fans! Tape limited to 25 hand-numbered copies. |
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Alignak - Mainlining Goats Blood This is a rare case of the first two albums from a band being equally excellent despite being completely different. While Alignak's second album is a brilliant mix of theatrical black metal and raw death and doom elements, 'Mainlining Goats Blood' is of a more experimental nature, with numerous ambient and ritualistic tracks spread throughout their unique style of music. This is exactly what you wouldn't expect, but exactly what you need to hear. |
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Alignak - Murder, Music, Magik, Medicine, Madness This is a truly remarkable album from a terribly underrated band. Alignak plays a style of black metal very similar to early Mystifier, with only the slightest additional elements of raw, Nunslaughteresque death metal and Asphyx-breed doom/death. It possesses a theatrical, undeniably dramatic atmosphere without any gothic cheese, and never gets even remotely boring throughout its staggering nearly eighty minute running time. Highly recommended. |
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Ancestral/Wedard - Split The long-awaited split between these dual titans of suicidal black metal has finally come! Ancestral crafts two tracks of misanthropic, bleak suicidal black metal while Wedard carries three tracks of atmospheric and vast melodic black. Definitely a recommended purchase for any fans of depressive black metal. Released in association with None More Black Records, limited to 1000 copies. |
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Animus - Hallucinations: Ideals Surrounding Water, Sand And Clouds Of Dust The new Animus album has finally arrived and it's hugely different from the first. While the previous release is well known for its achingly beautiful, ultraminimal fuzzed out black metal, this is a much more experimental release, with a high incorporation of acoustic guitars and a large doom influence. I've got to listen to this one some more before I decide how I feel about it totally, but so far it's quite good and well recommended. |
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Anti (Germany) - The Insignificance Of Life Quality suicidal black metal from Germany. A fair bit more uptempo than your typical suicidal BM, though not quite to Nyktalgia levels. The riffing and production are typical but solid, and much of the unique appeal to this record is hearing traditional depressive BM jacked up a notch via added aggression. I like it, but those who detest suicidal BM probably won't be interested. |
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Archaic Winter - The Psychology Of Death Oldschool death metal in the vein of early Gorguts. This album has a highly varied presentation, with a core of death metal that is also influenced by black and doom. Memorable songwriting and unique lyrics round out the package. An album very worth checking out for all those searching for music in the style of death metal's golden age. |
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Aurvandil/Halla - Horizons The fourth release of Nokturnal Transmissions Records is a split between these two mighty black metallers! Aurvandil is atmospheric, frosted black metal from France, while Halla is ultra-raw and misanthropic anti-religious black metal from Iran! West and east unites for a surge of universal black scorn! Limited to only 120 hand-numbered copies; get yours soon! |
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Backhoe Butchery - Mailbox Full Of Mousetraps Ignore the rather silly cover art and other aesthetics and you'll find this to be one of the most hateful, savage crossover releases in years. The look of this album in no way reflects the content, which is easily some of the most brutal and misanthropic thrash releases since Amebix departed us so long ago. This is not happy thrash for Municipal Waste fans: it is instead for those of us who truly want to feel the essence of hate as communicated via choral, percussion, and strings. |
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Black Fire - Between The Eternal Flames Of Black Fire Blasting, occult Colombian black metal. Employs a drum machine but occasionally slows down into more moody, Satanic, atmospheric sections. Definitely sounds like it comes from South America for some reason; bands from the region seem to have a rather particular style. Anyway, it's pretty cool if nothing very remarkable; I have something of a soft spot for the SA style, and this is a pretty good primer on it. Limited to 500 copies. |
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Black Hole Generator - Black Karma This is sort of like if a somewhat less openly bizarre Furze joined up with a mid-era Anaal Nathrakh who was able to put the epic, melodic sections in their music without sounding like a cheap Keep Of Kalessin knock-off and became a single band. There's lots of 1349-esque blasting (but with genuinely memorable riffs) as well as more subtle, intricate mid-paced sections which stand as some of the best I've heard in the style. It's not mind-bendingly unique, but it is almost perfectly executed industrial-influenced black metal. |
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Blakagir - Nostalgia Medieval neoclassical/ambient from the mastermind behind Hellveto. The simplest way to describe it is really Hellveto excised of the metal, leaving only the purely orchestral compositions behind. If you love Hellveto (like so many of us do) this is just as necessary a purchase. A great listening experience for all those who love medieval atmospheres and layered neoclassical compositions. |
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Blodfest - I Kong Skjolds Navn Oldschool, atmospheric black metal from Denmark. Very mystical and occult music (not pagan) from times long ago, though the presence of electric guitars, blast beats, and violent vocal performance might detract from the medieval atmosphere slightly. Makes you want to burn a church! Fun for everyone. *IMPORT ITEM* |
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Bosque/Senthil - Under The Capricorn Sky/Premeditation Bosque plays ultra-desolate, sparse funeral doom that happens to be some of the best music in the metal scene today due to its incredibly multifaceted delivery and clear emotional connection with the listener. Senthil plays post-Wormphlegm style torture doom, exchanging that band's sense of dark melody for further atonality and shrieking abrasiveness. A good split, though I prefer Bosque's side. |
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Brobdingnagian/Shores Of Pluto - Split Very dark, strange dark ambient/noise split. Brobdingnagian typically plays noisy, demented black metal but in this case works with Shores Of Pluto to craft seven tracks total of sinister, minimalist noise/ambient. This has probably the most original layout I've ever seen and anything I say about it wouldn't do it justice. Suffice to say it's awesome and extremely memorable. Pro CDr limited to 73 numberedcopies. |
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Brobdingnagian - TortureStainedDisaster The debut mCD from Brobdingnagian is finally here! Four lengthy tracks of nasty black/noise/ambient with a very deranged experimental edge. Extremely unpredictable and erratic music; absolutely great from the first moment to the last. Highly recommended. CD limited to 500 copies. |
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By The Horns - Destroy The Horizon Good melodic death/thrash from Florida. This is their debut EP and it's pretty sweet; lots of melodic and catchy riffing, complex drumming, and a particularly ferocious vocal performance make up this release. Nothing incredibly original, but a good listen from a promising band. Limited to 300 copies. |
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Chaos Moon - Languor Into Echoes, Beyond One of Chaos Moon's infamous 2 album simultaneous release stunt from last year. This is my preferred of the two; it's more melodic and traditional than the other, with cleaner production and a generally sleeker sound. I recommend you get both at the same time though; you're kind of missing something with just one. |
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Chaos Moon - Origin Of Apparition The other Chaos Moon CD. This one is much noisier, tortured, and chaotic, with a lot of highly dissonant riffs and an extremely dark atmosphere. Very brutal and extreme black metal from Wraith Productions. I prefer the other, but this probably appeals to a different crowd. |
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Cryptic Throne - Apocalyptic Extermination Finally released after seemingly endless delay, Apocalyptic Extermination has arrived! The debut full-length from Florida black metal onslaught Cryptic Throne, this album boasts seven tracks of brutal yet melodic black metal with depressive and ambient touches sure to impress any black metal fan. If you like your black metal with razor-sharp riffing and atmospheric production, look no further! Limited to 1000 copies, released in cooperation with Metalbolic Records. |
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Dagorlad - The End Of The Dark Ages Essentially very weird Bal-Sagoth worship. Take that band and make it more plodding, with only about a third of the material being metal and the rest medieval ambient and folk. I'm not really into it though it has its moments; it's most comparable to Hrizg of the rest of the stuff in the distro. Probably good for those who get a boner from Tolkien. |
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Darkflight - Perfectly Calm Yet another immense, totally mandatory release from Ars Magna Recordings. This little-known Bulgarian outfit plays vast and crushing blackened doom metal. You could compare this to Skepticism, Summoning, Tyranny, and other varied artists such as those. Huge chords merge with soft, epic keyboards and winding lead guitar and reverb-drenched vocals. Simple elements that come together marvelously. HIGHLY recommended. |
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Diabolic Intent - Reborn Traditional Floridian death metal with something of a unique feel; there's midpaced, almost militaristic sections with a lot of rolling tom fills that contrast with the more typical, Monstrosity-derived death metal. Not an essential purchase by any means but has enough unusual about it that it's worth a look from the underground death metal fan. |
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Diabolical Breed - Compendium Infernus I can go either way on this; it's pretty generic but it's good at what it does, it's easy to ignore but it's worthwhile if you pay attention. It's easy to dismiss this but it's fun to listen to if you like symphonic black metal. Really, if you're looking for a decent, repeatedly listenable symph black metal album, it's a good choice. |
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Dormant - Beneath The Mighty Oak Very similar to a more aggressive Agalloch, with more obvious black metal tendencies and less queer. Fans of that band or other newer black/doom/folk bands should try this out, along with fans of some more esoteric, ambient-laced material. There's a lot of sections of drifting flanged guitar, like Great American Desert in the forest. Not bad at all. Comes in a full-size DVD case. |
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Eld - Primeval Vespers Traditional Norwegian style that periodically moves in thrashier or more melodic directions. The songs have a sort of sprawling quality to them with more variation than you'd expect from music with a core in a very traditional sound. Not stirringly unique but quite good for what it is; recommended for your average black metal fan looking for a band who goes a bit further with the sound. |
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Enoid - Dodssyklus VERY brutal and intense, straightforward black metal from Switzerland. Yet another one-man project, but in this case, it focuses on Dark Funeral-style blasting and tremolo riffing over weepy, self-pitying sections. This might cause you to eat babies and vomit ANGER, so listener discretion is most certainly advised. *IMPORT ITEM* |
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Ensepulchred - Suicide In Winter's Moonlight A rather strange fusion of black metal and electronics that results in an atmospheric and uncomfortable listen. Misty tremolo riffs drench the background while strange, almost circuit bent electronics dominate the melodic spectrum along with distorted vocals. Seems to inspire reactions of absolute adoration or 'well, it's interesting, I guess...' in its listeners. Kind of like a better version of Echoes Of Silence. |
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Equinox (US) - The Immortal Kind Speedy, grooving black/death metal like Angelcorpse meets Impaled. Good mix of brutality and melody with a bit more emphasis on the latter; lots of '80s style soloing and double bass. Recommended for any death metal fan, modern or staunchly oldschool. Gets a lot of plays from me; reminds me of Behemoth at points. |
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Evocation - Evocation Swedish death metal (Grave style, not At The Gates). This digipak compiles their first two demos from the early '90s but it sounds like a full-length. Good stuff if you enjoy Entomed, Grave, Dismember, the usual suspects. It's one of those releases that floats around in Ebay lots a lot but it's actually worth your time unlike most. |
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Exetheris - Timeless Mysteries A new entry in the breed of mid to fast-paced, atonal black metal. Strange, textured riffs wobble over a racing drum machine and spitting vocals, occasionally dropping into an ominous groove. Sort of a hyperspeed version of Absonus Noctis; definitely not easy listening material. |
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Frostmoon Eclipse - The Legacy A collection of this Italian band's rare tracks plus unreleased live tracks in a full-size DVD case. Contains material from several of the band's EPs and splits. For those that aren't in the know, Frostmoon Eclipse is one of Italy's finest current black metal collectives, playing a traditional but extremely well composed style of Norwegian-breed black metal. Recommended for all the BM fans out there. |
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Funereal Moon - Beneath The Cursed Light Of A Spectral Moon Nasty, almost US-style blasting black metal meets dark ambient that seems like a combination of Mortiis and Abruptum. It's melodic without being melodious and brutal without being logical. It's definitely the sort of music that plays by its own set of rules; fortunately, unlike most other black/ambient groups, the band is good at both styles. |
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Funereal Moon - Taumogenesis A collection of seventeen of this Mexican groups previously vinyl-only tracks. More ambient than black metal, and what black metal is there is encased in dark, murky production. Perhaps even eerier than that material on 'Beneath...', as there's less actual music and more demented, occult soundscapes. Recommended for fans of Vomit Orchestra or Abruptum. |
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Godless (Puerto Rico) - Church Arsonist Raw yet epic anti-Judeo-Christian black metal from Puerto Rico. A thick mist of production clings to poisonously melodic riffs and howling vocals, with a sound that is as visceral and hateful as it is sorrowful and beautiful. A very deep and rewarding listen. |
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Gower - Baneful Apparitions Of The Thicket Ambient, epic, vaguely NS black metal. Pretty inconsistent production but good music. In general the material here sounds a lot like the Pagan Hammer/Frost school of droning, wintry black metal but with a bit more of a militaristic folk edge. Fans of Pagan Hammer are recommended to give this one a try. |
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Heirdrain - Batna Heirdrain is a rather infamous Canadian project in the vein of Zarach 'Baal' Tharagh's school of huge numbers of demos with very raw production and songs that make little to no sense. I'm surprised the two haven't done a split; Heirdrain's style of black metal is quite similar to ZBT's but with a bit more folk and 'conventionality'. It's still weird as fuck with bizarre drumming and riffs that go everywhere and nowhere at once. I don't hate it as much as many others seem to, might as well give it a try. Pro CDr limited to 66 hand-numbered copies. |
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Heirdrain - The Death Of Nature Another bizarre Heirdrain demo. This one seems to show off riffing that makes marginally more sense than Batna, but you're still not going to confuse this band with Immortal anytime soon. Pro CDr limited to 66 hand-numbered copies. |
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Hellgoat/Legions Of Astaroth - Moonlight Ritual/The Moon Bleeds Red Upon The Earth Super raw, occult black metal on one side and not quite as raw, thrashy black metal on the other. Pretty cool music if conventional; those who can't stand raw production are advised to stay away. If you like it sounding GRIM and NECRO and involving the MOON you'll probably like this. Limited to 1000 copies. |
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Hellveto - Zemsta One of Hellveto's earliest major releases, and, as usual for this prolific one-man project, absolutely mandatory to acquire. If you haven't heard Hellveto, you owe it to yourself to at least download some MP3s. Hellveto plays a unique style of pagan metal infused with neoclassical orchestral compositions; it's some of the most layered and complex music in the metal scene today. L.O.N. releases albums at an insane rate, so have fun buying this one and then desperately trying to expand your Hellveto collection; it's like crack. |
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Hellveto - Prelude To Dying Another Hellveto release, this one several years more recent. The artistic endeavor's usual style of orchestral pagan metal is on this release infused with an extra helping of darkness and aggression; this is perhaps his most ominous and misanthropic release to date. Recommended of course for Hellveto fans, but also for more conventional black metal fans looking to get into this amazing band's work. |
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Hrizg - Oaken Path Of Grief Finally got this back in stock after forever out. Contemplative black/folk stuff kind of like Summoning minus the Tolkien. Or with the Tolkien but instead of epic soundscapes it's more like the hobbits walking through the forest debating the ethics of their fellowship. It's pretty cool. |
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Impious Havoc - Dawn Of Nothing A very solid Finnish Gorgoroth clone which emphasizes that Norwegian band's earlier work. It's not QUITE as straight worship as their earlier output which could honestly be confused with Pentagram, as this has something of an epic touch that wasn't present before, but it's still definitely very comparable. Derivative but well-composed music. |
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Infiinite Hatred - Hateful Spell South Korean raw black metal with a very atmospheric and misanthropic feel. Pretty sick material, reminds me of a lot of the newer ultra-brutal black metal bands coming out these days. It has a definite atmosphere; sort of swampy and hazy like a lot of Korean BM groups seem to be doing. I dig it a lot. |
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Inhuman Hate - Merciless Misanthropic Quite interesting music: a combination of suicidal black metal and oldschool second wave Norwegian BM, so it sounds like Darkthrone circa 'A Blaze In The Northern Sky' playing Trist songs. Sort of a good combo with the King album below. There's a lot of slowly shifting synths and riffing that alternates between misanthropic Celtic Frost-derived chugging to more typical suicidal strumming. Rather unique. |
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King (Canada) - Sufferance Obsolescent Pretty cool stuff here: suicidal black metal riffs over thrashy and grooving bass and drums. It makes for something that kind of sounds like a less pretentious Lifelover at times. It's much faster and more openly melodic than your average depressive black metal, so it's good for Nyktalgia fans. Rather curious and precious but it has a lot of quality music along with the novelty. |
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The Krushers - Omonimo Real raw, oldschool black/death/thrash/grind stuff from Italy. Influences come from everything from DRI to Napalm Death to Sarcofago to Nunslaughter, but all of it's very primitive and oldschool extreme metal. Good for people who think nothing good came out after '89. The whole album's really sick and I want to hear more from these guys soon. *IMPORT ITEM* |
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The Last Twilight/Profundis Tenebrarum - Hell Bestial Conjuration The Last Twilight appears in a major step up from their older work, exchanging the scattered ideas of past days in favor of a more focused and traditional demonic black metal sound. Profundis Tenebrarum maintains their standard style of raw yet melodic and nocturnally atmospheric black metal. Good split for fans of either band. |
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Livercage - Burned Alive And Killed... The re-release of Livercage's second album from 2006 has finally arrived. The material on this disc showcases some of the slowest, most droning and ambient/doomy music I've ever heard from the band, quite removed from the hyperspeed black/electronic material found on later albums. More restrained, but no less dark and claustrophobic than what you've come to expect from these Canadian monsters. |
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Livercage - Impaled And Forgotten Did you feel a pang of disappointment when Y2K didn't lead to the apocalypse? If so, you're exactly the sort of person that Livercage is reaching out to with this album. Ugly, raw black metal is fused with industrial, noise, and electronic elements to create an awkward perversion of what music is 'supposed' to sound like in a manner which can only be described as sick, deranged, and uncomfortably satisfying in the darkest hours of the night. |
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Livercage - Pick Up That Axe And Cut Them Down Perhaps the mighty Cage's most aggressive and traditionally black metal release, this album is full of razor-sharp tremolo riffs and intense machine blasting. It's not a Norwegian ripoff though and has plenty of the band's classic noise, industrial, and ambient touches. Perhaps my favorite album of theirs. |
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Livercage - Lord Of The Bastard Livercage returns with yet another slab of demented experimental black metal mayhem, and they change their style YET AGAIN! This time you'll get to hear a combination of very noisy, primitive black/industrial and significant militaristic elements. It's like watching a bunch of Italian fascists stab Christians to death with rapiers in the streets. In short, it's awesome. |
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Livercage/Rotting In An Open Field - Split Livercage's side sounds a lot like a mixture of Lord Of The Bastard and Pick Up That Axe... meaning you get a more riffy and coherent breed of their style but with significant martial and industrial elements. Easily some of their nastiest material to date. Rotting In An Open Field is very cool black metal/experimental ambient, kind of reminding me of Temple Of Azoth in parts. An excellent split, limited to only 50 copies! |
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Lord Of Storms - Demo 2007 Really excellent, super oldschool black metal. Huge Bathory influence along with Venom and super early Mayhem. Call it the first and a half wave. The band's first demo and I'm really hoping they'll do some new stuff soon; this material is really sick and great for any oldschool BM fan. CDr limited to 50 hand-numbered copies. |
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Malveillance - Just Fuck Off Ultra-distorted black metal meets d-beat/crust punk! There's exactly two songs on this album that are over two minutes, and that should say everything. Malveillance rips through a collection of brutal, punk-flavored and riff-oriented songs, like newer Darkthrone but with Amebix replacing good spirits. Great music to get drunk and rip the piercings out of some retard to. *IMPORT ITEM* |
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Marblebog - Forestheart Yes, I finally got an album from one of those bands that every black metal kid in the world seems to be simply clamoring over. Fortunately it's pretty decent; somewhat depressive, naturalistic black metal that seems, I guess, like a combination between Wolves In The Throne Room and Alcest minus all the non-metal influences. On a scale of gay with the bottom being Darkthrone and the top being Amesoeurs, this is up there, but it's musically sound. |
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Mist Of The Maelstrom - Death Of The Sun FINALLY back in stock after months and months out, I'm happy to get it back. Mist Of The Maelstrom is one of the best funeral doom acts out there today. The project's first album, Death Of The Sun, is a breed of oldschool funeral doom in the vein of Skepticism's first album meeting Thergothon. The music is grand and desolate yet rich in its individual tones. Unique yet familiar. A beautiful album for all funeral doom fans. |
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Moloch - Cosmic Depression Surprisingly good drone/ambient here. Slowly shifting, ultra-low walls of synths intersect with gentle field recordings. It's a very relaxing listen and fantastic if you're into drone/ambient; it actually seems composed rather than 'play two keyboard notes for an hour' like most bands like this seem to do. |
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Nenavist - Nenavist Mostly midpaced, ultra-misanthropic black metal that reminds me significantly of V.A.C.K. It has that same overtly drunken and hateful feel with a little less Hellhammer influence. If V.A.C.K. is what you listen to when you've been drinking, this is what you listen to after you're done drinking and it's three in the morning and you're trying to kill yourself with a butter knife but it's not working because you're holding it upside down. |
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Of Fallen Crosses - Hallucinogenic State Of Death Melodic and contemplative drone/ambient/experimental music occasionally bursting into frantic noise/black/industrial chaos. Good for stargazing. |
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Ominous Grim - Gaze Into The Mirror Dark Quite good Norwegian style black metal. Has a sort of modern occult feel and a nicely dark atmosphere. I like how the songs are short but don't feel abreviated; it makes for a fast-paced and interesting listening experience. I like this a lot even though it's by all means very conventional. Limited to 50 hand-numbered copies. |
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One Master - Forsaking A Dead World This took me a bit of time to warm up to but jesus christ is this good after you give it some time. What I thought before was a good but unremarkable USBM album is actually one of the finest traditional black metal releases in years. It possesses incredible nuance and aesthetic detail. I can't recommend this enough. |
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Onward - The Neverending Sun Almost impossibly catchy traditional/US style power metal. NO keyboards; just riff after awesome riff with fantastic lead guitar work and soaring vocal melodies. Exactly the sort of thing for people who love Jag Panzer and other USPM greats. I may be a death/black/grind person most of the time, but I can't get enough of this. |
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Pagan Hammer - Pagan Hammer I This compilation features nearly all of Pagan Hammer's pre-'Ode To My Fathers' material, including the 'Pagan Wolves' and 'Foresight' demos, Pagan Hammer's side of the 'Winter Death' split with Frost, and two previously unreleased tracks! Ten songs, over 70 minutes of exquisite ambient black metal art! Unlimited edition, comes in a full-size DVD case! |
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Pagan Hammer/Nox Eternus - Infinitas Barathrum Pagan Hammer returns with a new split with fellow North Carolina one-man project Nox Eternus! Pagan Hammer crafts three tracks of mesmerizing snowcovered ambient black metal while Nox Eternus puts forth four tracks of spacey, haunting black metal. Not to be missed! Pro CDr limited to 150 hand-numbered copies. |
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Primigenium - Art Of War Spanish black metal, supposedly one of the country's oldest bands though I have no way of confirming that since I don't care. It definitely sounds Spanish and maybe a little bit French; it has that soft touch of epic/fantasy themes and grandiose atmosphere conjured out of simple elements. Kind of reminds me of a primitive Hirilorn at points. I dig it. |
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Profundis Tenebrarum - Hate Decade Well what do you know, I managed to get some more copies of this! Not many though, so get it while you can. Profundis Tenebrarum is a Spanish band that plays black metal in a blend of Norwegian and Slavic styles, making it both subtly melodic and very brutal. This compiles all three of their early demos on one disc, limited to 500 copies. Excellent music! |
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Profundis Tenebrarum - Pathogenesis The second full-length from this long-running Spanish black metal band shows the collective taking a step forward, introducing greater tempo changes and technicality to their brand of atmospheric black metal. Those who enjoyed the 'Hate Decade' compilation will certainly find nothing to complain about here. |
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Psychomancer - Butchered This will TOTALLY put a smile on your face with the first few notes. Psychomancer plays a real horror-inspired breed of death/thrash with notes taken from Impetigo, Deranged, and the mighty Macabre! Think of it as death metal with a thrash feel; fewer triplet riffs, more dramatic structuring. Kickass album all around. |
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Purulent Infection - Exhuming The Putrescent Straightforward one-man brutal death metal. Reminds me of a less modern-sounding Insidious Decrepancy, with a good mix of tech riffs and more atmospheric Suffocation-inspired moments. Good for the BDM fans out there. |
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Rainfall - Autumn One Extremely ambient, hypnotic black metal with a great deal of influence from Animus, 'Transilvanian Hunger'-era Darkthrone, and mid-era Burzum. This demo is composed of a single track which concerns the unquantifiable nature of mortality and our endless being. Limited to 100 hand-numbered copies and filled with leaves from around the artists' home. |
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Raw Hatred - Hung Again Like A Bitch Very raw, brutal black metal from the Dipsomaniac set. If you know the Virginia/Illinois-style raw BM popularized by the crews with Dipsomaniac and Rusty Axe, you'll know what to expect: ultra-misanthropic, antisocial, unendingly savage black metal laced with noise. Limited to 500 hand-numbered copies. |
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Raw Hatred - Southern Hell Rehearsal Yes, the image sucks, don't bother me about it. This is yet more nasty Raw Hatred material, and their newest yet: seven tracks of, as usual, ultra-raw, noisy, chaotic, thrashy black metal (with the most insane layout I've ever seen) that 99% of the human population would vomit from hearing. Of course, if you're actually considering buying from this distro, that probably appeals to you. You're also a pedophile. Fuck you, you disgust me, I'M GIVING YOU A JOB. I don't really know where I'm going with this, I just feel the need to fill up this box. Just buy the damned tape, I'm really poor. |
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Raw Hatred - Total Devastation More insane ultra-raw black/thrash from these Virginia freaks! This is the first full-length from the outfit and is a great companion piece to their later 'Hung Again Like A Bitch' release. If you love that sick, ultra-raw noise/black sound, you'll love this shit just as much. Limited to 500 hand-numbered copies. |
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Rellik (Illinois) - Heritage Of Abomination Brutal yet epic death metal, like 'Formulas Fatal To The Flesh' and onward-era Morbid Angel meets earlier Hate Eternal. An awful combination in theory, surely, but it actually manages to work by focusing on majestic, warlike riffing amidst perpetual blast beats. Almost a black metal album played as a death metal one. Very good for all the straightforward DM fans out there. |
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Rellik (Pennsylvania) - Deceive The Deceiving A different Rellik from the one above. This one is from Pennsylvania and plays traditional US style thrash metal with more than a little Exodus influence. It's pretty cool; nothing amazing to me but I've never been particularly enamored with thrash. If you dig the traditional thrash sound though, this is very good, with strong instrumental abilities and great production. |
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Riphead/Drogheda - Land Of Ruin/Violencia Very underground death/thrash metal meets nearly as underground oldschool grindcore. Riphead sounds a bit like a blend of Slayer and Bolt Thrower (pretty good, though they never really went anywhere) and Drogheda is spazzing blurring blasting hi-low vocal'd grindcore with songs about assassinations and setting the white house on fire. That's pretty cool. |
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Ruina/Tundra (Italy)/Operation Winter Mist - Allegiance Of The Profane Pack An excellent three-way split from the fine folks at None More Black Records. Brutal Ukranian black/death meets Italian black metal and Canadian black/war metal for a release full antihuman cruelty and excellent songwriting. Highly recommended, this has great material from all three bands. *IMPORT ITEM* |
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Sacrificial Blood/Zombie - Split Oldschool thrashy death metal on one side meets classic speed/thrash on the other. Two bands with a craving for human blood thrash together through ten tracks of gore-splattered b-movie brilliance. Think of the music on this disc as an uglier, meaner version of Ghoul. |
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Sapthuran - The Wanderer Somewhat raw, atmospheric USBM. The sort of thing you'd expect from Wraith Productions; mediocre production used along with simple riffs and intense vocals to craft a nostalgic, naturistic atmosphere. Good for fans of Hrizg, Breath Of Sorrows, or really any of Wraith's roster of artists. |
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Secrets She Kept - Requiems To Midnight, Woe Fast, melodic USBM from Florida. One of the more popular underground Floridian BM artists in the scene today, their debut album showcases technical, melodic riffing, savage vocals and ultra-fast drum programming. Not incredibly unique but still cool and fun to listen to. |
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Seeking Obscure - Seeking Obscure A rather strange album that's a lot like all the mid-'90s death metal that was good but forgotten in the move towards black metal as extreme metal's primary focus. Unique, almost progressive-tinged riffing and experimental song structures rule the day here, reflecting a time when the traditions of death metal had passed, and so a greater desire to expand and create was fostered. A very interesting release. |
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Septic Tomb - Sewearth The debut EP from this one-man Florida project. Septic Tomb plays a mixture of epic, brutal death metal and sludge-infused funeral doom. Definitely unlike anything you've heard before. Pro CDr, unlimited edition. |
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Septic Warfare/Talk Sick Earth - Split Awesome split between these two crossover/thrash bands! Septic Warfare plays oldschool thrash metal with a lot of old trad metal influence while Talk Sick Earth plays a more straightforward variety of street crossover. Comes in a slim DVD case. |
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Seraphim Slaughter - Scum Terror Sex - Murder - Hatred - Decay - Alcohol - Drugs - Rape - Abuse - Satan - Destruction - Suicide - Negativity - Nihilism - Emptiness - Blood - Death - Fire - Weapons - Vandalism - Vomit - AIDS - Sarcasm - Terrorism - A black/thrash bullet for every person you know and hate on this rotting Earth. |
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Sjenovik - Circle One Experimental death metal with drone and industrial elements. The combination works, resulting in a very thick, oppressive atmosphere that still possesses brutal, grotesque riffing along with its more experimental tendencies. Sort of like if Sunn O)))'s 'Black One' was a death metal album. |
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Spinaltron - The Depression Of Sunday Very cool electronic music from one of the guys in Livercage. Fast-paced with complex rhythms and some very strange synths, it kind of reminds me of the soundtrack from the first Unreal. The only thing it's missing is aliens to kill while listening to it. Great if you dig electronic material. |
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Striid - Warmageddon Cool, nasty lo-fi black metal. Very grim! A lot of songs about war and genocide, which is cool. Fast buzzing tremolo riffs, clicky drum machine, sneering hissing vocals, it's pretty run of the mill in pieces but executed really well when you put it all together. Limited to 500 copies. |
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Stumm - I Slow. Low. Dirty. Imagine if Winter merged with Doomthrone and became a sludge band. If you're not a fan of extreme doom, don't even THINK about getting this album. Total funeralsludgedrone massacre! CD limited to 2000 copies, none of which will be going to happy consumers! |
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Svarrogh - Lady Vitosha Folk and ambient-laced black metal in the Slavic style, a lot like early Dub Buk but with a greater amount of folk influence. It's not exactly what you've heard before though; Svarrogh is from Bulgaria, so the folk influences have a bit more Gypsy sound to them rather than the straight Drudkh stuff you're probably familiar with. |
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Tchernobyl -75666-/Aurvandil - Nuclear Devastation Electronic industrial meets brutal militaristic black metal in a split between these two French artists. Nine fun tracks about slowly dying of radiation poisoning and watching your world end around you. Great music to play Fallout to! Limited to 100 copies. |
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Temeluchus/Tomhet - Split The newest release from Nokturnal Transmissions Records comes in the form of this ultra-limited split! Temeluchus spews six tracks of vile, ultra-raw black metal while Tomhet counters with his traditional sound of black metal laced with dark ambient. Not to be missed! Limited to 66 hand-numbered copies. |
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Temple Of Abraxas - Temple Of Abraxas Excellent, spacey dark ambient/drone/noise material from Frozen Goat Records. It's sick and weird, just the way it should be, with a lot of strange synthwork and distant, distorted samples. Like the soundtrack to a Salvador Dali painting. |
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Thermal Pulse - Cult Of Enchanted Rage Martial, industrial, futuristic-sounding black/death metal. A side project of the guys from Lucid Fear (and one Dimension F3H member), this seems to be their only release, back from 2004. Though the band's discography is sparse, this is quite a quality release; it reminds me of a less spacey, more aggressive Black Hole Generator. Recommended. |
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This Year's Addiction - Unfinished, Unmixed, Unmastered Technical grind mixed with melodic hardcore with a chick vocalist. Sounds pretty finished, mixed and mastered to me really. It's good stuff if you're into that sort of thing and the band juxtaposes the melodic and grinding moments very nicely. It's rather white belt but more tolerable than most of that breed. |
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Thou - Peasant Honestly one of my favorite newer doom bands these days. Their first album was sick and so is this. Thou is from Lousiana and you can hear it in every note: it's totally Southern styled sludge/doom, a bit like Corruption in places, with nasty screaming vocals and riffs heavier than getting fistfucked by the Hulk. I recommend it. The album, not getting fistfucked by the Hulk. |
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Tjolgtjar - Five Tjogltjarian Keys Probably the most hated band in the USBM scene today, though I'm not entirely sure why. Tjolgtjar plays a slightly updated form of first wave black metal; there's BIG influences from Root, Mercyful Fate, Bathory, etc. NWOBHM riffs with screeching vocals and jaunty drums. Kind of goofy but good if you're in the mood for it. Limited to 1000 copies. |
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Tomhet (Canada) - A Dark Serenity Traditional yet melodic and atmospheric black metal laced with guitar-driven ambient passages. Very mesmerizing music, with perpetually shifting textures of beauty and organic violence delivered through ice-cold riffing and savage vocals. There's clean guitar tracks, and then there's a Blasphemy cover. It delights in confusing you. A really great album. Limited to 150 hand-numbered copies. |
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Torch Of War - The Principle Of Cosmic Instability Excruciatingly sharp war-style black metal that seems concerned with philosophy and stuff. It has what just might be the most horrific guitar tone I've ever heard, but it somehow works even though your ears will be bleeding by the time the album's over. If you can handle it, I'd say go for it. |
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Trist - Stíny Traditional suicidal black/doom metal from the Czech Republic. The re-release of this classic album contains only the finest in depressive extreme metal, employing the traditional elements of slow pace, shrieking vocals, and winding guitar to create an album that is deeply unique though grounded in the hallmark elements of the style. |
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Typhus - Profound Blasphemous Proclamation I think this is gay and dumb but everyone else likes it so whatever. Essentially Typhus is a USBM band that got famous because they're okay at replicating various European styles of black metal, and because we all know that 'being European' is the number one item on the list of things to aspire to, they quickly rose to incredible fame despite just re-releasing this album over and over and over. |
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Unburied/Seeking Obscure - Split Brutal, chaotic death metal meets progressive-tinged mid-'90s style death. Side one is savage and unique band Unburied, who rip through four tracks of gore-soaked insanity, and side two is the excellent Seeking Obscure who plays his custom brand of rolling, experimental death complete with a Cancer cover. Good stuff from both bands. |
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Unburied - Slut Decapitator Unburied's long-awaited full-length has finally arrived! 10 tracks of ultra-brutal, oldschool death metal fill this CD with misogyny and thrashy riffs! The material on this disc is roughly 700 times better than the previous split CD, so if you dug that, you'll definitely love this release. Hoping for more in the future from these guys! |
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Underdark (Ukraine) - I Am Above All From the mastermind of Astrofaes and Drudkh comes a rather surprising release from this project: a brutal, bassy, slightly death metal influenced full-length of blasting black metal. There's no folk or progressive influences like on Amorth's more well-known projects; just cold, completely unyielding Swedish-style black metal. Good for fans of Dark Funeral or Marduk who want a bit more depth in their music. |
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V.A.C.K. - L'ombre De La Solitude Primitive, raw black metal which takes most of its influence from Hellhammer and similar bands. Atonal, highly distorted, and weirdly wandering music that surely sounds like nothing you've heard before - unless you own the Vinland Anti-Christan Kommando's first album. A party full of drunken Nazi vampires would be a very accurate description of the sound. |
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Valhom - Despair Very technical, multilayered, EXTREMELY fast black metal. Almost psychedelic in delivery, the music here is a combination of all styles of black metal from traditional USBM to ambient European varieties. A very difficult but rewarding listen; not recommended for those whose interest in black metal extends to Emperor and not much further. |
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Various Artists - Metalbolic Records - Metalbolical Volume 1 14 tracks of extreme metal from Metalbolic Records, containing both the label's artists and numerous unsigned acts such as Dyngyr, Unearthed Corpse, and Unit 100. Lots of great material on this CD and at an extremely low price. |
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Various Artists - Rusty Axe Records - Under The Axe Volume 4 A new compilation featuring mostly exclusive tracks from the angry and oldschool boys and girls of the Rusty Axe roster! 21 tracks including new material by Marks Of The Masochist, Black Vomit, Godless, The Wizar'd, and more. Good stuff from one of the sickest labels in the US today! |
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Various Artists - Sacrifice At The Altar Of The Satanic Blood Angel: A Tribute To VON The fine folks over at Rusty Axe Records present this 24 TRACK tribute to black metal legends VON. Including the usual Virginia/Illinois suspects as well as more well-known artists like Frostmoon Eclipse and Ceremonial Castings, this tribute contains material everywhere from raw black metal to ambient/noise and everywhere in between. A fine dedication to the masters of traditional USBM. |
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Velnias - Sovereign Nocturnal Black/folk/doom stuff like Dormant but probably even more removed from Agalloch; this is more black metal with the other elements than rock music pretending to be heavy. I dig this even though it is a little pretentious; it's three (very) long tracks and it comes in a cute kind-of-digipak and it has a moody tree on the cover and shit. Despite the gay image the music is cool. Exactly the sort of thing you'd expect from God Is Myth. |
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Vinterriket/Orodruin - Split Oh man, NTR just got cult as fuck and finally got a Vinterriket release. This split has two lengthy tracks of Vinterriket's traditional frozen ambient versus five tracks of Orodruin's traditional black metal. It's cool stuff but even if it sucked it wouldn't matter, as proved by the 88 tape I stocked a little while ago. You people are all horrible. Limited to 1000 copies. |
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Vomit Orchestra - Antecrux The first full-length from this amazing dark ambient artist. In case you're one of the few people who hasn't heard of it, Vomit Orchestra is the dark neoclassical/industrial/dark ambient/experimental project of D. from Vrolok and 'Antecrux' is a fantastic work branching from dark, folky acoustic guitar to power electronics and everywhere in between. GREAT work and also a totally great layout. Limited to 500 copies. |
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Vomit Orchestra - :Bridges Burnt: The second release from Vomit Orchestra on Autumn Wind Productions, this 'EP' (reaching nearly 75 minutes long) shows a more minimal and 'traditional' dark ambient side to this project. Just as great as 'Antecrux', though in a decidedly different direction. Limited to 500 copies. |
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Warlock Moon - ...On To The End The latest release from the cult Canadian black metal outfit! Two new tracks plus three rehearsal tracks. Expect necro production, strangely progressive song structures, and lots of thrashy, obscure riffing. Good for pissing off your neighbors. Tape limited to 25 hand-numbered copies. |
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Waxen - Fumaroth One-man black metal by Toby Knapp, better known for his technical/shred work in his solo project. The result of a shred guitarist going black is actually a really good one, as the expanded technical skill gives the traditional Norwegian style a bit more room to breathe. The music here also has a unique sense of catchy melody that you can't quite find anywhere else. Good for those looking for a less traditional but not self-indulgent variety of BM. |
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Whorelord - Objectify This Phenomenal death metal/hardcore from New York. Think a mixture of Deicide, Jungle Rot, and oldschool toughguy hardcore and you've got a pretty good idea. It's got just as many blasts as grooves and it never gets boring. Phenomenal release if you dig hardcore with your metal. |
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Whorelord - Ass-Raped Again Just as good if not better than the other Whorelord demo, this one has an even bigger influence from oldschool death metal and a bit less punk, making for a slightly more even listening experience. It has all of the groove and brutality that made Objectify This fantastic. Get it. |
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The Wizar'd - Follow The Wizard Totally '70s style traditional doom shit here. Perfect for dedicated fans of Saint Vitus, Trouble, Black Sabbath, and all the other usual suspects. Groovy, stoned-out slow'n'low riffing dominates this EP with haunted clean vocals and perpetually trundling tempo. Recommended for people who listened to Pagan Altar's first album when it came out and, like, totally got it man, or people who are conspicuously angry at doom-metal.com for some reason. |
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Wolfshade - Trouble Cool depressive black metal/post-rock from this French band. Simple electric guitar mixed with folky acoustics and screeching vocals bring to mind a less gay Alcest. Really good if you dig the black/post-rock mixture that's become popular as of late. Probably my favorite Wraith Productions release next to Underdark. |
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Written In Torment - The Uncreation The debut EP from UK black metal act Written In Torment. Emperor-style melodic black metal packed with memorable guitar lines and precisely crafted song structures results in one of the better slabs of black metal to come out of England in a number of years. Limited to 1000 hand-numbered copies; each of these copies is SIGNED by The Leviathan himself! *IMPORT ITEM* |
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Zargof - Departure For The Cosmic Twilight One of my favorite metal releases of all time is finally for sale. If you think you've heard quality symphonic black metal before, you're sadly mistaken, because this EP destroys all but the most tremendous of classics. This CD is indescribably good, with every single moment absolutely dripping with the unique Brazilian atmosphere that this band cultivates. Let's put it this way: on good days, this rivals 'In The Nightside Eclipse'. An excellent sort of midpoint between Aura Of Aquila and Xanthos. |
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