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Native In Black - At The Mystic Gates Of Eternal Winter Despite what you'd think from the title, this is actually pretty raw and primitive black metal, like a more complex and melodic Ildjarn really. It has a weird sort of folky charm to it despite the fact that there's no real folk anywhere on this disc; I don't know how to describe this. Good for V.A.C.K. fans, probably. | $8 |
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NDE - End Of Trust Surprisingly good post-thrash/hardcore stuff here; the fact that it's so hardcore influenced actually works in its favor, with the hardcore vocals and drumming bouncing off the metallic riffs very nicely; oldschool metalcore with no melodeath I suppose. I dig it a lot though invariably the people reading this wouldn't. | $10 |
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Necrowitch - Into The Temples Of Nar Mattaru I might have misjudged this; it's not as bad as I thought. It does the ritual/occult black metal thing with some first wave riffing and really bad production. I appreciate the effort and though I feel better about it than I did a while ago it's still not perfect, but it might be worth a look for underground black metal fans. Hand-numbered but I'm not sure of the limitation. |
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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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Nepente - Atonements Very violent, somewhat thrashy black/death; the sort of thing you hear a lot on Metalbolic Records. Very enjoyable, reminds me of Aeon at times with its cutthroat nature. Recommended to black/death fans. |
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Neurosis - Verdun 1916 No, not the faggy band that sounds more like Enya than metal, but the Colombian one that plays oldschool deathing thrash metal. Cool riffs ala old Metallica with some death metal influence. Good music if you're not a pussy like me who only likes stuff with a million blast beats and slams (but even I like this). | $10 |
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Night Must Fall - Dissonance Of Thought Elysian Blaze goes Senthil. Well, Senthil goes Senthil. Kind of. |
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Nyctophobia - Beyond The Pillars Again, no new tape deck so I'm guessing this is blackish, ambientish Elysian Blazeish funeral doom but with a little more activity than that band, and this guy is probably planning a split with Persistence In Mourning at one point or another and it might be the same guy as in Imynvokad because the logos are very similar. |
$6 |
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Obscure Vortex - Was Einst War... Lurching mid-fast black metal with that epic German sound. Feels rather foresty and medieval; it's good music but I'm having trouble thinking of clever adjectives that I haven't already used a dozen times today. Also this has probably the most laughably bad layout I've ever seen on a 'pro' CD release; the text on the back looks like it was done in MS Paint. Limited to 666 copies. | $10 |
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Octagon - Artisans Of Cruelty Atmospheric, BDSM-obsessed black metal. It has its peaks and valleys but overall I'm starting to appreciate this album much more than when I first heard it a couple years back. It does have a particularly (as you could imagine) sadistic quality to it, especially with the intrusion of the lurking, softly growling vocals. Cool CD. |
$10 |
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Odar - Zavjet Dalekom Snu This is a CD, just couldn't find the right art. Anyway, it's really good, epic, martial black metal with a really fucking Slavic vocal performance and solid, melodic, vast riffing. Not bad for a band from fucking Seravejo. Limited to 1000 copies. |
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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. | $6 |
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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. |
$8 |
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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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Organic Infest - The Way To Temptation Weird fucking album; melodic yet brutal death metal with a very narrative style of songwriting but fucking AWFUL production. Seriously, the sound quality of this is just unimaginably bizarre and inappropriate for the style of music. Get past it and the actual songwriting is surprisingly interesting and good, though. Difficult to get past, however. |
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Overdose - Circus Of Death Brazilian thrash. Look at that cover. Seriously, just fucking look at it. | $10 |
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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! |
$9 |
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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. | $6 |
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Paganus - Paganus Reminds me weirdly of Heavy Lord meets Funeralium; it's extreme, post-Wormphlegm-style doom metal but with weirdly trad/stoner riffing and vocals. It's an interesting release, still not sure if I like it yet. |
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Pandemia - Spreading The Message Unbelievably generic and lifeless death metal. It's bad and I don't recommend it to anyone. Apparently some people like it. |
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Pantheist - Journey Through Lands Unknown Gothy and melodic funeral doom; substantially faster than their previous works, for some reason. Still good though a pretty big departure from their previous material; it's more insistent and accessible and not as droning and sparse. Maybe that's a good thing? You give me your money and decide for yourself you CUNTS! |
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Pessimist - Slaughtering The Faithful The weird case of a brutal death band trying to fuse with a black metal one and sounding pretty decent in the process accidentally. A lot of almost black metal melodic, gothic tremolo riffs over really fast blasting and double bass. Not nearly as oldschool sounding as the weird logo would have you believe. Erik Rutan continues to be a shitty fucking producer. |
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Proclamation - Messiah Of Darkness And Impurity Perhaps the ultimate example of Nuclear War Now! style black metal. Makes sense that they're on that very label. Good for fans of Blasphemy. |
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Profanity - Slaughtering Thoughts Sadly underrated and forgotten German death metal; extremely brutal without being brutal death and with a remarkably crushing and unique style of music. Just oppressive and absolutely hammering and oldschool without being a slave to the tropes of the style. Fucking cool music. | $10 |
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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. | $8 |
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Pure Sweet Hell - The Voyeurs Of Utter Destruction As Beauty This reminds me a lot of a thrash version of Strapping Young Lad; it has a similarly overblown style of production, vast songwriting, and experimentation with clean as well as rough vocals. I'm not sure how great the individual riffs are, but I like the album as a whole; it has an ambitious feel to it which makes it fitting that this was the band's only release. Worth a look. | $10 |
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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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Pyuria - Calliphora Vomitoria Introitus Really violent and hateful death/thrash with weird influences. It's like if Dismember decided to randomly inject moments of extreme technicality amidst the groove riffs. This gets points for having a ridiculously hateful vocal performance as well as a stupidly brutal guitar tone. It scares me a little bit when it's on. Look at the art, the band doesn't even give a shit. They just put a dead guy there with their logo. They probably fucked your mom. |
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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/Misanthropy - Split You should probably know what Raw Hatred sounds like by now and their name describes it pretty well: really raw and chaotic black/thrash stuff that you'll probably hate. Misanthropy does very murky and weird drum machine black metal with what might be some electronic influences or they're just weird fuckups in the production. For true raw fans only! | $8 |
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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. | $6 |
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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. | $8 |
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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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Remembrance - Frail Visions Some of the most absurdly cheesy funeral doom I've ever heard. Overbearingly gothic keys and breathy growled vocals with slow, overly mournful guitars make for a hilarious listening experience. It's awesome and terrible at the same time but great if you want to feel impossibly, ridiculously sad. |
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Remembrance - Silencing The Moments Oh god, not another one. In all fairness I think this is SLIGHTLY toned down from the first one and seems to be sculpting out a more unique style than 'Frail Visions'; this reminds me greatly of Funeral with the admittedly excellent usage of female vocals. This is certainly on the melodic and gothy end of the funeral doom spectrum, however. | $8 |
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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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Rising Moon - They Are As Us This is one of those items that floats around in Ebay lots all the time but it's actually really good melodic death/black stuff. Very mainstream sounding but immensely well composed for what it is. Really good listen if you can stomach melodic metal at all. |
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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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Saltus - Slavonic Pride Pagan black metal with a lot of folk influence, acoustic guitar sections, folk riffs, snarling black metal vocals, etc. The title tells you everything about the music: they love Slavs and Slavitry. |
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Sanatorium - Internal Womb Cannibalism There are some weirdly fucking bouncy pirate riffs here for an album called 'Internal Womb Cannibalism'. | $10 |
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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. | $8 |
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Satanic Scums - Grim O'er Passionate Lands All-synthesized symphonic black metal. It's like Echoes Of Silence but not musically terrible. Actually has a pretty creepy atmosphere and some good melodies once you get over the weirdness of the aesthetic. Pretty good. | $8 |
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Searing Meadow - Corroding From Inside US style melodic death. Good for what it is though it doesn't impress me a huge amount; still a decent listen. Other people seem to love it. |
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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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Sephyroth - The Winter Holocaust Raw black metal with a drum machine, has that particularly frozen Canadian sound that was all the rage around '04. The only thing this band ever did; members are in Evil Wrath which went further. Not a bad CD though I'm not crying my eyes out that they didn't do more. Good if you want to have to turn on the heat while listening to an album. | $10 |
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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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Sikfuk - Gore Delicious Stupidly fucking fast and chaotic death/goregrind. On their next album they didn't bother to even use lyrics. Fast as fuck. |
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Silent Voices - Infernal Dark power/prog stuff, like Evergrey meets Symphony X. Not really for Dream Theater fans because it doesn't suck. |
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Single Bullet Theory - Route 666 Thrash/groove/metalcore but surprisingly good. Unlike most bands of the style which feel overly still and lifeless, this has some definite momentum behind it and keeps the listener engaged with a combination of thrashy riffs and hardcore elements. Good album if you like the style. | $8 |
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Single Bullet Theory - Behind Eyes Of Hatred Like the first but with more technicality. A little less thrash, a little more groove. Still good stuff. | $8 |
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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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Sol Evil - Sanctus Satanas Good fast USBM with a weirdly epic and triumphant feel to it with a little Behemoth to be found here and there and with the occasional melodic lead. It's good music and made even better by the fact that the main guy behind it is in fucking prison right now and released this after he was put in the clink. | $8 |
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Somrak - The Abhorred Blessings Modern black metal. I'm not sure who this sounds like. It has those weird arpeggiated riffs like Horna but some Darkthrone ones too and some Dark Funeral ones too and other bands with Dark in the name. It's pretty good if you like black metal, occasionally has a bit of occult grandeur and groove to it. |
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Sons Of Chaos - Dawn Of The Apocalypse Brutal, apocalyptic death metal; reminds me a lot of Immolation with those sort of convoluted rhythms and darkly calm vocals. Has just enough technicality to feel weird without any flash. The tremolo riffs make me feel weird and uncomfortable because they're like normal melodies for half the riff before veering off somewhere they're not supposed to. This is a pretty cool CD. |
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Spinal Cord - Remedy Weird death metal; parts of songs tend to start off normal before getting weirder and abruptly decaying into something from another world before snapping back to normality, like someone talking to themselves and periodically going on tangents before returning to the topic at hand. Very strange music. |
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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. | $8 |
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Splatterhouse - The House That Dead Built Great Impaled worship that ends up being infinitely better than Impaled despite its dual vocals and occasionally too-bouncy rhythms. I like this a lot, all the riffs and songs are really memorable and it has a certain darkness to it that's lacking from the Razorback styled bands it's clearly influenced by. Very good and recommended. |
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Stalaggh - Nihilistik Terrror Yeah yeah it's that silly black/noise band everyone was obsessed with for a year a while back. I think it's ridiculous and dumb, plenty of other people think it's OMG THE SICKEST THING EVER so make of it what you will. | $10 |
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Stormheit - Caelic Weold Finnum Particularly pagany pagan metal with all clean vocals. The riffs are uncomfortably uplifting and I get a lot of images of sickeningly misty meadows and preparations for climactic battle and tests of honor and all that gay shit. I give it twelve stars out of a possible fourteen and a third. |
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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. | $8 |
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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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Supreme Pain - Cadaver Pleasures This is one of those brutal death releases that makes you want to feel like the world is ending instead of 'you're going to get tortured to death'. Very intense and blasting brutal death with a lot of nasty oldschool tremolo riffs. A very good CD despite the silly cover art. |
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Tartharia - Abstract Nation Very melodic and technical, almost power metal influenced black/death metal. Seriously, a lot of these riffs could have come from Blind Guardian if it wasn't for the sudden guttural vocals popping up alongside blast beats. Interesting album if you like a mixture of virtuosity with more conventional black and death trappings. |
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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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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. | $8 |
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Temple Of Abraxas - Temple Of Abraxas 4 Yet more bizarre Temple Of Abraxas material similar to the first release. It's a bit less droning and a bit more in the industrial/noise direction of some of the more intense tracks off the debut. Still very highly recommended for journeys to the center of your mind. | $8 |
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Thanathron/Empheris - The Rituals Of Possession In Blasphemy Black metal split. Thanathron is pretty average apart from having the most awesome vocals in the world. Empheris is pretty average apart from having some of the most awesome melodic riffs in the world. It's pretty cool. | $8 |
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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. | $6 |
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The Thorn - Hermitage Of Non-Divine Good melodic death/thrash stuff; has sporadic clean vocals and some electronic effects so it comes off like a burlier version of newer Dark Tranquillity with some chunkier, more grooving riffs. Nothing that will redefine the world but a fun listen no doubt. |
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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. | $8 |
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Throne Of Nails - Acts Of War The very first band I've ever heard that's trying to be a Morbid Angel clone. In this case, the band are clearly big fans of 'Covenant' and base their music off replicating those churning tremolo riffs and vicious drumming. It's a damned good attempt at cloning, actually, with just a pinch of modern brutal death metal spicing the mix up. I like this quite a bit. |
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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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Tjolgtjar - Halloween Since no one will buy the other Tjolgtjar CD in this distro I decided to just get another hurr hurr fuck you all. | $8 |
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Toby Knapp - Polarizing Lines Has Yngwie accidentally given you a boner at one point? Then this is the album for you. |
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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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Torture Wheel - Crushed Under... E.M. Hearst is possibly the most socially awkward and hilariously neurotic people in the doom scene but he still managed to make something fairly cool with this. It's kind of like 'Lead And Aether'-era Skepticism by way of Wormphlegm; traditional funeral doom melodies but with a lot of extremity in delivery piled on. Not tremendously far away from Wraith Of The Ropes, really, but still worth listening to. |
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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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Tundra - In Cold Dimness Raw black metal. I'm not really into it but you might. It has good riffs and some interesting song structures but it never really clicked with me; maybe it'll be different for you. |
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Tvmvlvs Seraphim - Fortress Ermetica Murky dark ambient/industrial/drone stuff from Italy (I think). Winding, pseudo-improvised soundscapes with occasional spectres of rhythm behind them. Seems to be themed after Europe immediately post-WWII and it does give images of Germans picking through wreckage and stacking bricks of Marks. | $10 |
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Twelfth Gate - Summoning Burly US style power metal with a hint of thrash. Fairly typical of modern incarnations of the style but still good with a lot of strong riffs and soaring Jag Panzer-style vocals. Cool if you're into the USPM sound, and who isn't? |
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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! | $8 |
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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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Unhallowed - Execution Style Pure NY hardcore here. Apparently they used to be a death metal band or something but this is absolutely music to wear basketball shorts to. Not bad at all for what it is despite the unbelievably stupid cover art. | $10 |
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Unlight Order - Through The Gates Of Torment Does the oldschool Darkthrone thing but with a pretty prominent bass presence. They listen to a lot of Hellhammer and shit, clearly. It occasionally diverts into more melodic, weaving territory, but they're mostly content to do the old stomp/crunch thing. Not bad though. |
$10 |
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V.A.C.K. - Vinland Anti Christian Kommando Before L'ombre there was this compilation of the band's two demos, even rawer and nastier than what was found on the full-length. If you dig L'ombre, you'll like this one too. | $10 |
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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. |
$8 |
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Valhom - Desolation Much like the second album below, but a bit more 'normal', with extra traditional melody and less insane technicality. Has a very witchlike, occult feel to it; I like it a lot, possibly even more than Despair. |
$10 |
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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. |
$8 |
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Various Artists - Armageddon Over Wacken Live 2003 You can probably guess what this is from the title: 2 discs of live tracks from all over the metal spectrum including In Flames, Rotting Christ, Primal Fear, Kataklysm, and Twisted Tower Dire. |
$10 |
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Various Artists - Porcupine Productions/Razorback Records - Burned Alive Mostly death/goregrind stuff featuring bands like Insect Warfare, Blood Freak, Tu Carne, Jig-Ai, Frightmare, and more. Good compilation. 29 tracks! | $5 |
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Various Artists - Crash Music - Death To An Extreme Volume 1 Oldschool DM comp featuring all the mid-'90s stars like Malevolent Creation, Oppressor, Internal Bleeding, Jungle Rot, Dying Fetus, etc. Pretty good even though it was released on Crash. | $5 |
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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. | $5 |
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Various Artists - Metalbolic Records - Metalbolical Volume 2 Second verse, same as the first, but I like it more than the first one. Has some pretty sweet tracks on it, actually. |
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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! | $5 |
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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. | $8 |
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Vedonist - The World Of Reversed Decalogue Kind of proggy, technical death/thrash with a lot of convoluted riffing but enough standard Polish aggression to carry it through. As you would expect, this is definitely influenced by the Vader and Decapitated set; it's fun stuff if not incredibly unique. Give it a try. |
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Vehemence - Helping The World To See Fantastic melodic death metal, almost, ALMOST as good as their seminal God Was Created. It's still better than 98% of other music out there in that it's super melodic death metal without sacrificing any of the brutality of the root genre. We Are All Dying has pretty much the best riff in the history of music. Almost every riff on this album is the best riff in the history of music. People who don't like this band are faggots who forefeit their right to listen to music. |
$10 |
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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. |
$8 |
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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. |
$8 |
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Viral Load - Hillbilly Whore Hackin' Revival A project from the guy that does Insidious Decrepancy which sounds exactly like Insidious Decrepancy so get it if you like Insidious Decrepancy I guess. |
$10 |
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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. |
$9 |
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Vrykolakas - Spawned From Hellfire And Brimstone Very brutal black/death metal similar to Pessimist with some added chaos. Production's a bit thin but the music is very savage and barbaric, like brutal death played by black metal musicians and so infused with an extra bit of demonic fire. Cool stuff from Indonesia. Too bad they can't do heroin so get REALLY good! | $10 |
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Wasteform - Ignorance Through Sovereignty Really, really brutal death metal with a prominent bass guitar. Really good album actually, a lot of midpaced, churning Suffocation parts alongside the sharp tremolo riffing makes for a more apocalyptic and atmospheric album than most. Recommended for all the brutal death fans out there. | $10 |
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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. |
$8 |
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Wedard - Wo Die Ewigkeit Die Zeit Berührt Vast and epic depressive black metal; sounds much like if Vinterriket decided to go the depressive route. It's very good and unique; the production is ultra-vast and the music sounds like the physical embodiment of the cover art. Digipak with 16-page full-color booklet; pretty amazing presentation. Recommended. Limited to 1000 copies. |
$12 |
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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. |
$6 |
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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. |
$6 |
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Winds Of Malice - Snakes Shall Breed Under The Ruins Relatively typical but well executed fast USBM. Weird double-tracked vocals dominate everything and the rhythms and riff variations are weirdly unpredictable; it's like post-modern USBM in a lot of ways. Not super remarkable but worth a try from underground black metallers. Limited to 500 copies. |
$8 |
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Wintermoon - Hellthrone Baphometh Surprisingly professional for an EP from a Mexican black metal band. Very riffy and somewhat USBM inspired but with a little bit more rhythmic creativity and variation in tempo. Good stuff. |
$10 |
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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. |
$8 |
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The Wizar'd - Infernal Wizardry Their new full-length and as you would expect they turned into a grindcore band ala early Nasum. I was going to leave the description at that but then I remembered that no doubt people will ask me 'HUH REALLY DID THEY BECOME A GRIND BAND' so no, no they didn't. | $8 |
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The Wizard Of Doom - An Odyssey In The Dark This album is so heavy that every time I tried to open its cover in Photoshop to resize it, Photoshop would crash. That's how fucking heavy this is. Anyway, this is very unique, a combination of Black Sabbath and romantic doom/death with some funeral-style leadwork. Very good and surprisingly professional for such an underground band. Limited to 100 copies. |
$8 |
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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. | $8 |
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Wraith Of The Ropes - Ada I don't care what anyone says, I like this a lot. It's weirdly gothic, horror movie-style funeral doom heavy on the keys and distorted vocals. It's a surprisingly easy listen. Has E.M. Hearst from Torture Wheel so I guess buy it for that? |
$8 |
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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* |
$10 |
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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. |
$8 |
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Zebulon Kosted/All The Cold - Zapolyarie A new split CD featuring some of the finest artists in the modern black metal scene. Zebulon Kosted plays experimental, electronic and ambient-laced black metal while All The Cold has mastered their style of ultra-bleak depressive black metal. Highly recommended to all black metal fans. Pro CDr limited to 100 hand-numbered copies. |
$6 |
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Zombie Death Stench - Here I Lie... Zombified Weird as fuck album for Redrum to have been released. It's sort of Razorbacky death/black metal with a big synth presence; I'm not entirely sure if it's serious or not. It's surprisingly decent for such a goofy idea though with the synths being genuinely ominous a lot of the time and packing some great riffs. | $10 |
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Zombie Hate Brigade - Zombie Hate Brigade Fuck yeah I ran into another copy of this album that six people in the world care about. It sounds like Impetigo, just get it off my hands, please. |
$10 |
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Zwenz - A Life's Work Of Natrgaard II Very weird melodic black metal with thrashy undertones and a cheap drum machine. Strangely 'composed'-sounding as though, well, it really was a life's work, even though not a lot of people are going to understand it. Recommended for those who enjoy weirder stuff. |
$10 |