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Band:SULA BASSANA
Album:THE BOX
Label:SULATRON
Format:6CD
Genre:ELECTRONIC /KRAUTROCK /AMBIENT /KOSMISCHE
This is a huge project for Sula Bassana and took a whole year to finish. Some kind of a retrospective, but with mostly never on CD and wax released stuff! Started by the idea of doing a 6-LP Box by Pancromatic Records in Norway, Sula is now producing the CD version for his own label Sulatron. This box contains 2 CDs of the album Endless Winter (originally released in 2006 in a small run of CD-Rs, later also available on Bandcamp). Sula did 3 new recordings who fit in perfectly, to make it a proper double album. Endless Winter is a Guitar only album, played over many guitareffects, 2 loopstations and 2 amps. No overdubs were done, it's all spontaneous improvisation. Next 2 CDs are Silent Music , here Sula recorded 2 bonustracks with the same intention. This is a collection of very soft and/or quiet songs, played on a wide range of instruments: Guitar, Bass, Synthesizer, Piano, flute, soundbowls, cymbal etc. This album was also only out on a very small run of CD-Rs in 2009 and also later also been uploaded to Bandcamp. CD 5 contains Sula's sides of the 2 split LPs he made in the past: Retronique from the split with Vibravoid in 2003 (Nasoni-Records). And Disappear from the split LP with 3AM (Chino Burga from La Ira De Dios, Culto al Qondor etc.) from 2014. These are composed songs and show a different side of Sula, compared to the first 4 CDs of this box. You can compare it more to his album Dreamer or similar stuff. CD 6 contains previously unreleased tracks from the last 10 years or so. Mostly crazy and spaced out electronic stuff, with some dub and trance influences and one Guitar driven psychrock freakout. The CDs come in 3 double digisleeves (like mini-gatefold LP covers) in a strong box plus 2 stickers. Limited to 500 copies worldwide! No reprint! CDs 5 & 6 are mastered by Eroc. Coverartwork painted by Dr. Knoche, layout by Sula. Tracks: CD 1 & 2: Endless Winter (plus 3 bunus tracks) CD 3 & 4: Silent Music (plus 2 bonustracks) CD 5: The split LPs (A: Retronique from 2004 with Vibravoid, B: Disappear from 2014 with 3AM) CD 6: Previously unreleased tracks
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Band:SKELETON GOODE
Album:SKELETON GOODE
Label:MEGA DODO
Format:LP
Genre:Rock
Sài Gòn based artist Skeleton Goode is the nom de plume of Jack Briggs - an English guitarist and songwriter. Skeleton Goode provides Jack with the opportunity to drag his maladies from post-industrial North-East England, through the sticky heat of the Mekong Delta and into your ears. Having recently signed to Mega Dodo Records (UK), Skeleton Goode is currently working hard forging nuggets of disjointed pop-sike for your listening pleasure. The recently recruited Skeleton Goode Band (an international 4-piece consisting of American, Japanese and English musicians) have just returned from a 3-week SE Asian tour and are champing-at-the-bit to perform their wistful ditties to a brand-new audience. Limited edition of 300 180 gram red and yellow splatter vinyl TRACK LISTING Side 1: Enamel Animal / Ask Tomorrow / Razors In The Clay / Stare of the Stranger / Leaf Green Gamma Girlz Side 2. James Dean / Never Going (Back Home) / Someone s Coming / Morning Sun / When The Dragon Flies Low
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Band:CRYSTAL JACQUELINE
Album:A PRAYER FOR THE BIRDS
Label:MEGA DODO
Format:LP
Genre:ROCK/ACID-ROCK
A Prayer for The Birds was written by Crystal Jacqueline's partner and musical director Icarus Peel and was inspired by their shared love of nature and the environment. While the album may offer something familiar and dependable, it s another step forward in a musical journey that started some years ago. For this album, Jacqueline was joined by new backing singers Victoria Reyes and Elaine Lightfoot. Victoria also plays exquisite oboe and Lizzy Wayne, who s also played with the Honey Pot, adds flute. Both players and instruments add new colours to a pastoral sonic palette. Together they lay down a deep-pile carpet to walk on, a perfectly heated pool to swim in, an adequately logged fireplace to lie in front of. Limited to 300 copies Gatefold sleeve Lyric sheet 180 gram vinyl TRACK LISTING Side 1 The Edge of My Garden / White Horse Hill / Dorsetshire Days / 100 Years Ago / First Light Side 2 Arise The Sun / Mercy Rose / A Prayer For The Birds / Turn The Tide / Moth / Birdsong
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Band:ABOP
Album:DELTA
Label:PDV RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:ELECTRONIC/ACID/TECHNO
The After is better than the party. Translated to their native Croatian language. Trimmed to a size of a four-letter acronym - ABOP. It s an awarded and critically acclaimed Croatian electronic music band inspired by acid house, techno, electro and other early electronic dance music genres. There s a rave on the floor, the audience is in trance - but there is no DJ - instead ABOP consists of five exquisite musicians on the stage. Live electronic band. Living drum machine - Ivan Levacic and Ivan Vodopijec share a single drum kit, sitting opposite of each other and kicking in the same bass drum. Both visual and auditory centerpiece of their music. They are accompanied by heavy bass lines by Erol Zejnilovic, digital synths by Ivan Bozanic and Roland TB-303, Future Retro 777 and similar analog synths by Bogumil Kulaga. Their first release, a self-titled EP from 2016 is now sold-out. On account of it they ve gathered miles and miles under their belt playing in Austria, Italy, Hungary, Slovakia, Germany, Belgium, France, Czech Republic and Bulgaria. All the time maintaining their status in the region with festival performances on EXIT, Dimensions and Terraneo. In 2017 the band was awarded with the best electronic music band award by Ambasador (Croatian music award recognizing achievements in electronic music). In 2018 ABOP released their first video for the song 'Right Now' directed by Katrin Novakovic. The animated stop-motion video was featured in numerous animation and music video festivals, the most famous one being Berlin Music Video Awards 2019 where the band performed. Their first album Delta was mixed and mastered by Croatian techno trailblazer Petar Dundov.
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Band:ABOP
Album:DELTA
Label:PDV RECORDS
Format:LP
Genre:ELECTRONIC/ACID/TECHNO
The After is better than the party. Translated to their native Croatian language. Trimmed to a size of a four-letter acronym - ABOP. It s an awarded and critically acclaimed Croatian electronic music band inspired by acid house, techno, electro and other early electronic dance music genres. There s a rave on the floor, the audience is in trance - but there is no DJ - instead ABOP consists of five exquisite musicians on the stage. Live electronic band. Living drum machine - Ivan Levacic and Ivan Vodopijec share a single drum kit, sitting opposite of each other and kicking in the same bass drum. Both visual and auditory centerpiece of their music. They are accompanied by heavy bass lines by Erol Zejnilovic, digital synths by Ivan Bozanic and Roland TB-303, Future Retro 777 and similar analog synths by Bogumil Kulaga. Their first release, a self-titled EP from 2016 is now sold-out. On account of it they ve gathered miles and miles under their belt playing in Austria, Italy, Hungary, Slovakia, Germany, Belgium, France, Czech Republic and Bulgaria. All the time maintaining their status in the region with festival performances on EXIT, Dimensions and Terraneo. In 2017 the band was awarded with the best electronic music band award by Ambasador (Croatian music award recognizing achievements in electronic music). In 2018 ABOP released their first video for the song 'Right Now' directed by Katrin Novakovic. The animated stop-motion video was featured in numerous animation and music video festivals, the most famous one being Berlin Music Video Awards 2019 where the band performed. Their first album Delta was mixed and mastered by Croatian techno trailblazer Petar Dundov.
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Band:DASZU
Album:ZONE OF THE SWANS/LUCID ACTUAL
Label:LION PRODUCTIONS
Format:2LP
Genre:POST PUNK
Rare tracks from composer Mark Rudolph's side project; Daszu. Using sparing and experimental instrumentation, Daszu is able to delve into the darker side of the post-punk scene. Includes the tracks 'Dina-Tina' and 'Pink Haze'.
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Band:UMBRA
Album:UMBRA (LIMITED)
Label:LION PRODUCTIONS
Format:LP
Genre:ACID ROCK/70S
What was available to unknown hard rocking dreamers like Umbra in Denver in 1971-72? Weekend gigs. Nothing but weekend gigs. But there was an upside to that: bands like Umbra could mix original material in with covers, and make enough money to survive. Or in the case of Umbra, to make enough money to build a home studio, where they recorded ads to promote their upcoming shows-and eventually, laid down the eight tracks on this disc. Everything was recorded by bouncing tracks back and forth between two-track and four-track reel-to-reel tape recorders. Spacey intros and weird effects were created by recording guitar licks, then re-recording them played backwards at double speed. What sounds like a flute was the result of blowing over the top of a 14" goose neck (believe it or not). The resulting tracks are hard edged and heavy, verging on acid rock at times. Makes sense, as Umbra was a power trio most of their too-brief existence. Yet the songs (heavy though they are) have a deft touch. There are weird effects, space rock elements, plenty of melody, and a refreshing category-free approach to writing songs that makes Umbra's music exciting to hear. Our Lion LP edition comes with an 8-page LP-sized color booklet, with lyrics, photos, plus interesting and funny things that can only happen to musicians, and did to Umbra. The CD edition comes with a sixteen-page color booklet containing the same material. We know that band bios can be sterile and boring or can move to the opposite spectrum, rife with grandiose embellishment. Umbra's story is neither. Instead, it is the story is the story of a band from the early 1970's who recorded what they wanted to record: heavy, heavy music from the start of the "American Comedown Era" (as we've seen it described by friends for their Brown Acid series of compilations). Umbra's story is also that of a band whose music, terrific though it is, has never to this point been released out into the wide world. Prepare yourselves to be surprised-and we hope as impressed as we are-by what Umbra had to offer.
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Band:HIGHMARTS, THE
Album:HEY BOY
Label:SOUNDFLAT RECORDS
Format:7" vinyl
Genre:GARAGE/60S PUNK
Formed in Tokyo in 2013, three young girls are continuing the tradition of Japanese garage rock. Taking inspiration from the 60s Group Sound through to 70s punk, THE HIGHMARTS will outdo all the boys with their primitive fuzz guitar sound. After their sold-out first CD Early Recordings on Sazanami Records and their fabulous debut 7 I Want You Bad on Radio Underground Records, they now serve us another brilliant 7 on Soundflat Records: Hey Boy , that does not only look great but it certainly also sounds it! The title-song is a HIGHMARTS-original showing off a very authentic 60s-Garage-sound with a powerful guitar, a fantastic beat and Japanese vocals with great harmonies. It just makes you want to dance instantly! The B-side is a coverversion of the Rock'n'Roll classic Tallahassee Lassie (Freddy Cannon), performed in a cool 60s-garage-girl-way that only leaves you longing for more! Make sure you get yourselves this fantastic new 7 by Japanese newcomer Garage-girl-trio THE HIGHMARTS!! Tracklist: A: 1. Hey Boy B: 2. Tallahassee Lassie
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Band:BAD DETECTIVES, THE
Album:MILD PERIL (DIRECTOR'S CUT)
Label:WESTERN STAR RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:ROCK N ROLL
6th CD album by UK band who s music regularly crops up on TV shows such as Wheeler Dealers, Homes Under The Hammer and Car SOS.
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Band:BRITISH BEAT COLLECTION
Album:VARIOUS ARTISTS FEATURING SORROWS KOOBAS STEAMPACKET ST LOUIS UNION SOULMATES UNTAMED ALAN BROWN SET CHEROKEES
Label:TIME BOX
Format:3CD
Genre:BRITISH BEAT
The inoffensive Transcription Disc has been in and out of collectors hands since they were originally produced in the 1960s. Conceived and manufactured strictly for export only to commonwealth radio stations for international broadcast, today, they offer an ultimately fascinating document of British Rock and its family tree. Together with insightful period interviews and a stunning collection of previously unavailable, exclusive recordings, Timebox has unearthed a treasure trove of British rock artefacts that reveal a hitherto untold history of bygone rock and pop. Timebox very proudly presents the maiden volume of the British Beat Collection 1965-1967 featuring THE SORROWS, LONG JOHN BALDRY, ALAN BOWN, CHEROKEES, ST LOUIS UNION, TONY JACKSON, UNTAMED, KOOBAS, MINDBENDERS, ALAN PRICE SET and more! Disc One The Sorrows November 26th 1965 1. Cara-Lin 2. Take A Heart (With Interview) 3. You Got What I Want The Koobas January 7th 1966 4. Take Me For A Little While (With Interview) 5. Daddy Rolling Stone The Mindbenders April 19th 1966 6. Groovy Kind Of Love (With Interview) 7. Love Is Good 8. Don t Cry No More June 3rd 1966 9. Can t Live With You, Can t Live Without You (With Interview) 10. All Night Worker 11. The Way You Do The Things You Do September 23rd 1966 12. Seventh Son 13. Ashes To Ashes (With Interview) 14. Ride Your Pony January 27th 1967 15. Cool Jerk 16. Homework 17. The Morning After Paul & Ritchie & The Crying Shames October 14th 1966 18. Circles 19. Shake 20. September In The Rain (With Interview) St. Louis Union December 2nd 1966 21. Things Get Better 22. East Side Story (With Interview) 23. Don t Worry Girl Disc Two The Cherokees November 5th 1965 1. Beg Me 2. I Love You Yeah 3. I Will Never Turn My Back On You (With Interview) The Shevelles October 15th 1965 4. A Little Piece Of Leather 5. All Night Worker 6. Yield Not To Temptation (With Interview Hedgehoppers Anonymous October 7th 1966 7. Hard Time 8. Daytime (With Interview) 9. Make Love The Alan Bown Set January 6th 1967 10. Do The Boomerang 11. Gonna Fix You Good (With Interview) 12. Headline News The Soulmates March 18th 1966 13. Bring Your Love Back Home (With Interview) 14. Baby What cha Want Me To Do 15. When Love Is Gone The Steampacket November 12th 1965 16. How Long Will It Last (With Interview) 17. In The Midnight Hour 18. It s Alright July 8th 1966 19. The Drifter (With Interview) 20. I Didn t Want To Have To Do It (With Interview) 21. Going To A Go-Go 22. Everything s Gonna Be Alright Screaming Lord Sutch July 24th 1966 23. The Cheat (With Interview) 24. Good Golly Miss Molly 25. Black And Hairy Disc Three The Untamed February 4th 1966 1. Hush Your Mouth 2. It s Not True (With Interview) 3. Land Of 1000 Dances Tony Jackson Group March 25th 1966 4. Almost There 5. Never Leave Your Baby s Side 6. You re My Number One The Checkmates May 15th 1965 7. Boom Boom 8. Around (With Interview) 9. Alright July 9th 1965 10. Mr Pitiful (With Interview) 11. All Night Worker The Boston Dexters August 27th 1965 12. Mary Anne 13. Try Hard (With Interview) 14. Baby Please Don t Go Brian Connell & The Round Sound September 1st 1967 15. You Got What It Takes 16. The Same Thing Happened To Me 17. Show Me February 17th 1967 18. Something You Got 19. Just My Kind Of Loving (With Interview) Alan Price Set May 6th 1966 20. The Walk 21. I Put A Spell On You (With Interview) 22. Baby Work Out August 12th 1966 23. Shake 24. Hi-Lili Hi-Lo (With Interview) 25. When A Man Loves A Woman 26. Take Me Home
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Band:PORTA NIGRA
Album:SCHOPFUNGSWUT
Label:SOULSELLER RECORDS
Format:CDD
Genre:Black Metal
4-panel digipack w/ 8-page booklet Four years after their avantgardistic and critically acclaimed effort Kaiserschnitt German Black Metal trio PORTA NIGRA return with a new album that leads them back to the roots of more straight-forward, furious and monumental Black Metal art of the glorious era of the nineties. Schöpfungswut , while musically not comparable to its eclectic predecessors, still contains lyrical traces of their decadent and fin de siècle-inspired atmosphere, which the outfit became known for. 1. Die Kosmiker (7:44) 2. Das Rad des Ixion (8:04) 3. Die Augen des Basilisken (8:16) 4. Die Entweihung von Freya (5:51) 5. Unser Weg nach Elysium (8:12) 6. Schöpfungswut (8:43)
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Band:PORTA NIGRA
Album:SCHOPFUNGSWUT (LIMITED SILVER HOT FOIL LOGO ON OUTER SLEEVE)
Label:SOULSELLER RECORDS
Format:LP
Genre:Black Metal
Black vinyl with silver hot foil logo on front of outer sleeve and including double sided inner sleeve. Limited to 300 units worldwide! 1. Die Kosmiker (7:44) 2. Das Rad des Ixion (8:04) 3. Die Augen des Basilisken (8:16) 4. Die Entweihung von Freya (5:51) 5. Unser Weg nach Elysium (8:12) 6. Schöpfungswut (8:43) Four years after their avantgardistic and critically acclaimed effort Kaiserschnitt German Black Metal trio PORTA NIGRA return with a new album that leads them back to the roots of more straight-forward, furious and monumental Black Metal art of the glorious era of the nineties. Schöpfungswut , while musically not comparable to its eclectic predecessors, still contains lyrical traces of their decadent and fin de siècle-inspired atmosphere, which the outfit became known for.
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Band:SVARTT JERN
Album:SHAME IS JUST A WORD
Label:SOULSELLER RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
The stars have aligned. The planets are in place. Forget your joy and embrace your fear. The new Svarttjern album is here. Dive into Svarttjern's basement of lust and rust! Ride the fleshtrain, bathe in the cesspool of fat, gurgle the lube or let it soak. Show your true self and shake off your invisibility cloak. Embrace your shame. Shame is just a word.» TRACK LISTING 1. Prince of Disgust (4:13) 2. Ment til å Tjene (4:49) 3. Melodies of Lust (6:09) 4. Ta dets Drakt (4:00) 5. Frost Embalmed Abyss (4:42) 6. Ravish Me (3:30) 7. Bonded by Blood (Exodus cover) (3:48) 8. Shame is Just a Word (4:12)
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Band:SVARTT JERN
Album:SHAME IS JUST A WORD (LIMITED)
Label:SOULSELLER RECORDS
Format:LP
Genre:Black Metal
LIMITED EDITION BLACK VINYL «The stars have aligned. The planets are in place. Forget your joy and embrace your fear. The new Svarttjern album is here. Dive into Svarttjern's basement of lust and rust! Ride the fleshtrain, bathe in the cesspool of fat, gurgle the lube or let it soak. Show your true self and shake off your invisibility cloak. Embrace your shame. Shame is just a word.» 1. Prince of Disgust (4:13) 2. Ment til å Tjene (4:49) 3. Melodies of Lust (6:09) 4. Ta dets Drakt (4:00) 5. Frost Embalmed Abyss (4:42) 6. Ravish Me (3:30) 7. Bonded by Blood (Exodus cover) (3:48) 8. Shame is Just a Word (4:12)
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Band:SVARTT JERN
Album:SHAME IS JUST A WORD (LIMITED BROWN VINYL)
Label:SOULSELLER RECORDS
Format:LP
Genre:Black Metal
Ltd Edition Brown Vinyl «The stars have aligned. The planets are in place. Forget your joy and embrace your fear. The new Svarttjern album is here. Dive into Svarttjern's basement of lust and rust! Ride the fleshtrain, bathe in the cesspool of fat, gurgle the lube or let it soak. Show your true self and shake off your invisibility cloak. Embrace your shame. Shame is just a word.» 1. Prince of Disgust (4:13) 2. Ment til å Tjene (4:49) 3. Melodies of Lust (6:09) 4. Ta dets Drakt (4:00) 5. Frost Embalmed Abyss (4:42) 6. Ravish Me (3:30) 7. Bonded by Blood (Exodus cover) (3:48) 8. Shame is Just a Word (4:12)
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Band:BLACK CAPRICORN
Album:OMEGA
Label:SAD SUN MUSIC
Format:2CD
Genre:PSYCHEDELIC DOOM METAL
Born as a trio (Fabrizio - guitar/voice, Rachela - drums, Virginia - bass) in the begin of 2007 in Sardinia, Italy. From spring 2008 to autumn 2009 the band worked and recorded a demo that will became the self titled debut album in July 2011. At the end of 2009 and first months of 2010 the band was joined by Andrea Cadeddu (guitar) and Matteo Carta (voice) and realized the second album "Born Under The Black Capricorn". In 2013 Black Capricorn returned as trio and recorded the third album "Culf Of Black Friars", published by Stone Stallion Rex on limited vinyl on November 2nd 2014. Italian label Bloodrock Records published the CD format on 2015. The fourth album "Omega" initially published by Stone Stallion Rex as double vinyl limited edition, will be released by Sad Sun Music on double CD format on January 10th, 2020 with a different artwork and 3 bonus tracks. "She comes from the fog.....with a hammer in her hand....." TRACK LISTING CD I CD II 1. Alpha 1. The Man Who Dared 2. Evil Horde Of Lucifer 2. Stars Of Orion 3. Accabadora 3. Quest For Agartha 4. Flower Of Revelation 4. Omega 5. Antartide 5. Doom For The Red Sun (bonus track) 6. Black Capricorn Seal 6. La Sella Del Diavolo (bonus track) 7. Devil And The Death 7. Astroflower (bonus track)
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Band:RIVER, THE
Album:VESSELS INTO WHITE TIDES
Label:NINE RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:DOOM METAL
Fusing texture & light with a heavy set foundation, The River have been honing their craft over the past two decades with two well received albums & EPs. Incorporating space & subtlety with a strong emphasis on melody, the band mixes fragile vocals over down tempo rhythms & a dense ebb & flow of guitar to create a bittersweet & wistful sound. The band s third album, Vessels Into White Tides, brings new colours to their musical palette, taking the music through greater peaks & valleys than before. The multi-instrumental nature of the songs helps to explore & push the sound into a richer, more varied & ultimately more mature form without ever sacrificing their heavier roots. Long-anticipated third full-length album of The River from UK. Spiritual, melancholic, melodic doom metal with female vocals. Feat. Christian Leitch from 40 Watt Sun. For fans of Warning, 40 Watt Sun, Pallbearer TRACK LISTING 1. Vessels 2. Into White 3. Open 4. Passing 5. Tides
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Band:BERNAYS PROPAGANDA
Album:VTORA MLADOST, TRETA SVETSKA VOJNA
Label:GEENGER RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:INDIE ROCK/DANCE PUNK
The unstoppable Macedonian dance-punk powerhouse Bernays Propaganda, a long-time underground favorite known for its community-minded stance, presents its 5th full-length album with the well-timed title ‘Vtora mladost, treta svetska vojna’ (2nd Youth, 3rd World War).
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Band:BERNAYS PROPAGANDA
Album:VTORA MLADOST, TRETA SVETSKA VOJNA
Label:GEENGER RECORDS
Format:LP
Genre:INDIE ROCK/DANCE PUNK
The unstoppable Macedonian dance-punk powerhouse Bernays Propaganda, a long-time underground favorite known for its community-minded stance, presents its 5th full-length album with the well-timed title ‘Vtora mladost, treta svetska vojna’ (2nd Youth, 3rd World War). Following the aesthetic path set on ‘Politika’ (Moonlee Records, 2016), the new LP brings forth a collection of groovy, radiofriendly, dancefloor-ready and socially conscious jams. As a collective, which has always felt strong about thought-provoking political observations on issues such as civil disobedience and human rights, they proved time and again that theirs is a political dance. Defined by catchy pop songwriting and stripped-down production, the album inventively blends influences of late 70s and early 80s post-punk, new wave, alternative rock, Detroit electro, and Balkan folk music. Skeletal dance-punk and electro grooves are combined with minimalist bass riffs, pulsating synth lines, and Kristina Gorovska's spellbinding voice and lyrics, resulting in a hip-shaking mixture of dancefloor and protest anthems. Some songs are characterized by traditional brass stabs and percussive interplays often found in Emir Kusturica's films, others are more ‘driving down the highway, sunshine in your eyes’ kind of tracks, while a few are simply early morning feel-good jams. There are even two electro-tinged tracks that could easily be played in a techno club. Stylistically diverse but sonically condensed, this collection of songs is pop done just right.
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Band:TAUTUMEITAS
Album:DZIESMAS NO AULEJAS - SONGS FROM AULEJA
Label:CPL MUSIC
Format:CD
Genre:FOLK ACAPELLA LATVIA
Auleja is a small but beautiful village in Latvia s eastern region of Latgale where a rich heritage of folklore has been preserved. It is precisely the traditional vocal music of this area, characterised by smooth, graceful melodies and a specific style of multipart singing, that has earned particular recognition. The longevity of Auleja s traditional music is linked to the work of the Aulejas Sievas ( women from Auleja ) ethnographic ensemble, which is one of the oldest such ensembles in Latvia. Also of importance is the fact that the ensemble was founded by several strong, vivid personalities who were also talented singers; recordings of them provide a noteworthy example of traditional singing. After a careful study of the recordings of these singers, the modern-day Tautumeitas ( folk maidens ) group has adopted the traditional singing style of Auleja. The group s understanding of this style has also been formed by the conclusions drawn by Tautumeitas initiator Asnate Ranc ne during the preparation of her bachelor work Aulejas laika bolsu stilistika (Stylistics of Seasonal Bolsi from Auleja). This knowledge is reflected on the album Songs from Auleja. The professional interest of the members of the Tautumeitas group revolves around the study, learning and dissemination of Latvian vocal traditions to a wider audience. The group consists of six members, four of whom have studied ethnomusicology at the J zeps V tols Latvian Academy of Music. Asnate Ranc ne graduated from the academy s department of ethnomusicology in 2016 with the bachelor s thesis Stylistics of Seasonal Bolsi from Auleja . As a part of her research, she conducted field work and interviews with traditional singers and other researchers of Latvian music; documented the work of the Aulejas Sievas ethnographic ensemble; collected, organised and prepared documentation of audio, video and photo materials; selected music recordings; transcribed songs; and analysed the theoretical and performance aspects of music from Auleja. Her conclusions confirmed that the local style of singing seasonal songs is unique and differs from similar traditions in Latgale and elsewhere in Latvia. As a part of the requirements for her bachelor s degree, Ranc ne organised a concert dedicated to the songs and singers of Auleja. In a way, this concert also marked the beginning of the Tautumeitas group. The main purpose of the concert was to present the results of Ranc ne s research to a broader audience in a practical rather than theoretical manner, with the songs sung by Ranc ne herself and a small group of other young women. She also told the audience about some of the more exciting stories and findings from her research. The women prepared for the concert for a whole year, analysing existing recordings and experimenting with their voices to reconstruct and master the traditional Auleja vocal repertoire, purposefully avoiding various stereotypes regarding traditional singing that have accumulated in the traditional music sphere and thus arriving at new insights.
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Band:EMMI KUJANPAA
Album:NANI
Label:NORDIC NOTES
Format:CD
Genre:FOLK/WORLD FINLAND BULGARIA
Emmi Kujanpää (MA) is a Finnish folk music professional who works currently as a folk singer, kantele player, composer and researcher. She has graduated from Sibelius Academy and the University of Helsinki. In 2009 Emmi Kujanpää studied as an Erasmus student in the Academy of Music, Dance and Fine Arts Plovdiv. After her studies in Plovdiv Emmi Kujanpää founded Finnish-Bulgarian vocal ensemble Finno-Balkan Voices which combined both Finnish and Bulgarian singing traditions. The ensemble worked together with Prof. Dora Hristova who was the artistic producer of the Finno-Balkan Voices album (2014). The album became critically acclaimed in the USA, Australia and different European countries. In 2017, Kujanpää started co-operation with the new generation of the Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares choir named Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares Vocal Academy and led by Prof. Dora Hristova. Kujanpää performed with the LMDVB Vocal Academy at Finland 100 years celebration concerts in Sofia, which were organized by the Embassy of Finland in Sofia. She also performed her compositions with the LMDVB Vocal Academy at Bulgarian National TV in 2018 at the program Ide nashenskata musica . Emmi Kujanpää will publish her first solo album Nani at the beginning of 2020. On the album, she combines her strong and sensitive solo voice, kantele (The Finnish folk zither) and jewelry percussion playing with the expressive voices of the Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares Vocal Academy choir. Finnish musicians Jarkko Niemelä (trumpet, vocals), Eero Grundström (harmonium, vocals) and Sauli Heikkilä (Tuvan throat singing, Morin khuur) are also visiting on the album. The songs are about women's life joy, sorrow, longing and also about a hidden pain of #metoo experiences. Emmi Kujanpää has composed, arranged and mainly written the lyrics of the album on Finnish, Karelian and Bulgarian languages. She has been also the producer of the album. The album was recorded by Delian Ivanov and Mikael Hakkarainen at Bulgarian National Television, Sofia and Musiikkitalo, Helsinki. The album is part of the publication series of the Sibelius Academy Folk Music Departement. Emmi Kujanpää is internationally appreciated pedagogue who has given workshops and lectures in Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, Russia and New Bulgarian University, Sofia. She teaches currently folk singing and kantele playing at Sibelius Academy. Her compositions have been played in folk/world music radio programs around the world and her choir arrangement was nominated as a best world music song of the year in Danish Music Awards in 2016
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Band:Uusikuu
Album:FLAMINGO
Label:NORDIC NOTES
Format:CD
Genre:WORLD TANGO FINLAND
In November 2019 it is 20 years from when Finnish singer Laura Ryhänen and her musician colleagues played Finnish tango in Germany for the first time. What was intended as a one-off show, developed unexpectedly into a long-term involvement in the genre. Since 2006, Laura has been touring Europe with her current band Uusikuu (New Moon) providing a fresh perspective to old Finnish dance music. Uusikuu s fourth CD "Flamingo" is released in October 2019 on German world music label Nordic Notes. Uusikuu bows respectfully and admiringly to the heroes of Nordic dance music from the 1930s to the 1960s. Back in the day, dance evenings were filled by music influenced by various genres from jazz and swing to folk, tango, humppa and waltz. Uusikuu lovingly polishes these old diamonds until they shine like new again. The band s approach can be summarised as semi-romantic vintage dance music , the spirit of which is in giving a 21st century makeover to the songs without cutting their roots or erasing their charming period features. The band always plays with a twinkle in their eyes, but beware! We are talking about Finns here and the old Finnish wisdom has it that one should never have too much fun. If the sun always shines bright in your life, you won t see the beautiful stars anymore . The darker shades, melancholy, nostalgia, and longing, are also needed in order to reveal the whole range of life s emotions. And a bit of kaiho (longing) is always around the corner. Kaiho is a Finnish expression for melancholy and nostalgic memories. You can long for a person, an experience or a place that is far away or in the past in fact, you might not have even met them, visited the place or experienced that emotion yet. Nevertheless, you can still feel the kaiho. The mixture of melancholy tangos, dreamy swings, raucous humppas, cheeky jenkkas, and romantic waltzes in Uusikuu s repertoire takes the audience into a world full of emotions and, of course, wanderlust. In addition to the jewels of yesteryear, Uusikuu s own original compositions bring the old tradition to the 21st century. The front lady Laura Ryhänen, with her serene and ironic stories about the of Nordic life, offers the audience an escape from their everyday lives for a moment and, after experiencing a Uusikuu evening, they go home with a dreamy smile. Uusikuu has always actively sought opportunities to collaborate with other artists and genres. In addition to film and theatre projects in Germany, Finland and the UK and numerous performances at various venues and festivals (among others Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Bardentreffen Festival in Nuremberg, Mittelrhein Music Festival, Ulmer Frühling Festival, Scandinavia Show in London, Helsinki Music Centre, Salzhaus in Winterthur and Internationale Kulturbörse Freiburg), the next major crossover project for the band is a collaboration with Württembergische Philharmonie Orchestra and conductor Atso Almila in 2020.
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Band:GEWALT
Album:DEUTSCH
Label:THIS CHARMING MAN RECORDS
Format:7" vinyl
Genre:INDUSTRIAL/POST PUNK
gewalt are: dm1 – beat, helen henfling – guitar, percussion rabea erradi – bass sax piano patrick wagner – guitar, voc produced by dennis jüngel master by bo kondren (calyx) cover art: johannes finke (deutsch), nico tanfal (nichts in mir ist einer liebe wert) nowadays the berlin based art & industrial band „gewalt“ calls themselves the joker of music. they are releasing there 8th single 7inch on „this charming man“ „deutsch“ inflames their heads more than it inflames the streets. the song is a dystopy, a soulexhibition of the very german nature. the german in his narrowness is just aware of his role of a victim. selfopression is leading straight to stupidity, nationalism and rascism. gewalt would love to burn their gardenhouses to crush all of them – the phillistines, the tv-hosts, the youtubestars, the fine sportsmen, the do-it-right-persons, the observers and the observed, the bosses and their slaves – despicable. what is „gewalts“ contribution? nothing, but some sharp lines, some grooves, clinking riffs and their very own anger. art is just a bad joke.
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Band:EISFABRIK
Album:KRYOTHERMALMUSIK AUS DER EISFABRIK
Label:REPO RECORDS
Format:CDD
Genre:ELECTRONIC/SYNTHPOP/ FUTUREPOP
The Eisfabrik is similar to the Area 51: You know it exists. We can see and hear it, but do we know what's going on inside it? At least we got the first internal memo leaked from Y., a hairy employee who wants to remain unnamed. And so it happened that on the 22.11.2019 there was a violent failure of rotation in the Eisfabrik . "This rotation failure can not and will not remain without any consequences", the shaggy employee explained to us. "After this incident, the machines reprogrammed themselves, ice crystals began to glow and the rainbow children let it snow," says Y., who works in ice block production. Y. continues: "With Kryothermalmusik aus der Eisfabrik something completely new has arisen, harmonies and sounds have been frozen together, depths and energies have merged into a genre of their own. Not only songs like "Deeper And Deeper", which introduces the album in an unusually dark way, "Lonely Like A Wolf", "Too Late", the over five minute long extended version of "And Nothing Turns", the club hit "Journey Of Oblivion" and the final "White Sheet" in a cryo-thermal end time version clearly show that the functional failure of 22.11.2019 left refreshing traces. Also potential hits like "No Matter", "We Don't Care", which accompanies the typical electronic sound of the ice manufacturers with an acoustic guitar, "Grim Reaper" or "Opposites Collide", which shows itself with 140 bass drum kicks per minute from the harder side of the band, show unimagined sound worlds. As Y. confirms, the 5th Eisfabrik album will be delivered on 24.01.2020 during the 2019/20 Kryothermalfeste - Tour with Beyond Obsession and Intent:Outtake as support acts. A preview of this new album will definitely be given before the official album-release with selected songs during the live-shows. TRACK LISTING 01 Deeper And Deeper 02 No Matter 03 We Don't Care 04 Grim Reaper 05 Lonely Like A Wolf 06 Too Late 07 Greetings From Far Away 08 Journey Of Oblivion 09 And Nothing Turns (Extended) 10 Back Home 11 Opposites Collide 12 White Sheet (Kryothermalversion)
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Band:BRENT AMAKER DEATHSQUAD
Album:BRENT AMAKER DEATHSQUAD VS BRENT AMAKER AND THE RODEO
Label:M & O MUSIC
Format:CDD
Genre:PERFORMATIVE COUNTRY
Welcome to the next chapter of western performance art from the mind of Brent Amaker. After touring the world for over a decade with his band of cowboys, Mr. Amaker has turned to a group female assassins as his next generation of musical comrades. The DeathSquad, composed of Darci Carlson (Bass & Vocals), Nozomi Momo (Drums & Vocals), and Izzie White (The Boss), are here to deliver the hurt and take no prisoners. DeathSquad just signed a record deal in France, and will be touring Europe in early 2020. Get ready folks. The DeathSquad has arrived.
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Band:NOVA
Album:VENIAMO DAL CIELO
Label:ATMF
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
Formed in 2003, it would not be until 2014 when NOVA would release a public recording. At last, it came with Il ritorno, courtesy of ATMF. It would be followed three years later by Soli contro il mondo, also courtesy of ATMF. Not for nothing has ATMF aligned itself with NOVA: as proven by these two acclaimed full-lengths, NOVA are masters of epic, pagan-inspired black metal with a uniquely Italian touch. Keeping apace, now arrives NOVA's third album, Veniamo Dal Cielo. Immediately and distinctly NOVA, here we find again a vigorous sound far away from trends, timeless in its craft and execution. No merely digital approach is cheaply or lazily undertaken here; instead, NOVA proudly strive toward a purely analog feeling, instilling life - vital, effervescent LIFE - into ancient, primordial black metal. Within a compact runtime of 35 minutes, Veniamo Dal Cielo brims with strident sorrow and blearyeyed bloodlust alike, retaining the classicism for which NOVA are known. Fiercely focused but still idiosyncratic, they're nearly without peer.
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Band:COMANDO PRAETORIO
Album:IGNEE SACERTA CTONIE
Label:ATMF
Format:CDD
Genre:Black Metal
Formed in 2011 and featuring members of Movimento d' Avanguardia Ermetico, COMANDO PRAETORIO made their public debut with the Divinità terrifiche EP in 2015. Although the interim has seemed quiet, the band have taken to the stage often and have otherwise been finetuning their debut album. At long last, it bears the title Ignee Sacertà Ctonie. COMANDO PRAETORIO's Ignee Sacertà Ctonie is a tremendous sonic journey about the chthonic fire cult of Mount Soratte, where ecstatic and wolfish initiatic paths were performed by the Hirpi Sorani, honoring the Inner Sun of Apollo Soratte. Transcending the imminent obscurity, a full-throated voice looms large, storytelling across these four epic-length tracks and representing a deeper understanding of this underworld fire cult, its manifestation brought forth through the wrathful archetypes of extreme music inspiration and spiritualistic sound approach. Indeed, COMANDO PRAETORIO here have shaped their glorification of the forgotten energies, the primeval gods, their vibrant black metal belying grey tones and ominous shading, with cresting-yet-somber guitar lines building a massive wall of doom for the modern man not to overcome. A subtle juxtaposition of extremes, this is, the album's overt muscularity evading rote aggression for its own sake and instead conveying more profound sensations, a stern austerity that's custom-built for the strident individualist.
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Band:TRINITAS
Album:TRINITAS
Label:WAR ANTHEM RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
Trinitas is the ancient flame of Three, namely Tormentor (Sodom, Asphyx, ex Desaster, ex Decayed am.), Vargher (Naglfar, Bewitched) and Azathoth (Ex‐Dark Fortress). A fire that has risen from the ashes of early 90s Black Metal in the year 2019.
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Band:TRINITAS
Album:TRINITAS
Label:WAR ANTHEM RECORDS
Format:10" vinyl
Genre:Death Metal
Trinitas is the ancient flame of Three, namely Tormentor (Sodom, Asphyx, ex Desaster, ex Decayed am.), Vargher (Naglfar, Bewitched) and Azathoth (Ex‐Dark Fortress). A fire that has risen from the ashes of early 90s Black Metal in the year 2019.
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Band:OSSUAIRE
Album:PREMIERS CHANTS
Label:SEPULCHRAL PRODUCTIONS
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
Having recently inked a record deal with Sepulchral Productions, Ossuaire emerges anew as the grandiose and impetuous first chapter of a concept spawning two albums and recounting the major events contributing to the downfall of christianity and the rise of heresy resounds. Ossuaire delivers a resolutely unwholesome breed of Black Metal, both corrosive and melodic, bestowing upon this offering an aura that is as dark as it is authentic.
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Band:DELETERE
Album:THEOVORATOR : BABELIS TESTAMENTUM
Label:SEPULCHRAL PRODUCTIONS
Format:MCD
Genre:OCCULT BLACK METAL
Hot on the heels of their celebrated 2018 opus, De Horae Leprae, Délétère slithers back from the abyss to unleash its latest Blasphermy: the tale of Babel, survivor of the Great Deluge, who undertakes the construction of Babylon and the Tower of Babel with his minions, to liberate Tervenificus so he can begin the Theovoration – the consummation of God. Once again, Délétère distills its very own essence of powerful, raw and melodic Black Metal that has quickly earned it a place among the very best that Québec Black Metal has to offer.
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Band:MONARQUE
Album:JUSQU'A LA MORT
Label:SEPULCHRAL PRODUCTIONS
Format:MCD
Genre:CLASSIC BLACK METAL
Six years have gone by already since Lys Noir, and at last Monarque breaks the silence. While the work on his new full-length continues, Jusqu’à la Mort offers a taste of things to come, and proves beyond any doubt that the sovereign of Québec Black Metal has lost none of his luster. As soon as the first notes hit, this is unmistakably Monarque, soaring to new levels of his very own brooding, emotional breed of Black Metal. A Grand return...
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Band:OSSUAIRE
Album:DERNIERS CHANTS
Label:SEPULCHRAL PRODUCTIONS
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
Just six months after the release of their first, widely acclaimed album through Sepulchral Productions, Ossuaire is back at it, with the stunning conclusion to their two-album concept on the downfall of Christianity. Derniers Chants features the characteristic vengeful yet melodic riffing that has helped the band quickly rise among the well-established Québec scene while also developing a more epic side, such as on the spectacular album closer. Another must for fans of the Québec Black Metal scene!
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Band:SANCTVS
Album:MORS AETERNA
Label:SEPULCHRAL PRODUCTIONS
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
Sanctvs, a newcomer among the Québec scene, will certainly gain followers very quickly with its occult and suffocating breed of Black Metal. Although some characteristics of said scene, such as the predominance of French lyrics and use of evocative melodies, can be found within the sound of the band, Mortheos (sole member of Sanctvs) evokes a darker, more raging aura, complete with a dense sound and violent outbursts of speed. A crushing debut!
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Band:TREPAS
Album:L'HERITAGE DU MONDE
Label:SEPULCHRAL PRODUCTIONS
Format:CD
Genre:ATMOSPHERIC BLACK METAL
Founded by members and ex-members of Morgue and Outre-Tombe, Trépas is one of the more recent bands Black Metal bands emerging from Québec. The band journeys between harsher moments and more atmospheric passages, all complimented by acoustic guitars and just a dash of doomish sensibility, creating a sound that is their very own in the process. A newcomer that is sure to delight fans of the more brooding and melancholic side that scene has been known for!
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Band:BLACK MORIAH, THE
Album:ROAD AGENTS OF THE BLAST FURNACE
Label:FOLTER RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
Seditious, malicious, fiends, the horde of highwaymen ride on! With The Black Moriah's second full-length release, they gear up for a journey of carnage across barren landscapes. "Road Agents of the Blast Furnace" is a never-yielding, all-consuming raid, hell-bent on tormenting every town in its path. Look to the horizon for the demented highwaymen this year. They come to pillage your village and soil your doves. Bring your gold and pay tribute or face the wrath of this desert funeral party.
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Band:ARCKANUM
Album:FORSTA TRULEN
Label:FOLTER RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
Forsta Trulen is the very first recording of the classic Trulen demo tape released by ARCKANUM in 1994. Shamaatae, solo member of the band, recorded this demo by himself on a Fostex 4-track portastudio cassette tape recorder in 1994, but he didn't like how it turned out, so he recorded it all over again and this recording was left in a box until now. The release includes the very first version of the song ngin Oforhrra which was not on the previously released demo! And all the ambient songs are the experimental first versions. The songs were newly mixed and mastered.
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Band:WHISKEY RITUAL
Album:BLACK METAL ULTRAS
Label:FOLTER RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
WHISKEY RITUAL, that means anger, that means chaos and that means one thing above all else: damn entertaining Black Metal. The Italian band was formed by members of Forgotten Tomb, Caronte, Selvmoord and L.O.S.T.. Originally, the band was supposed to be just a side project of the individual musicians, but the madness of WHISKEY RITUAL was infecting, engaging and soon the guys became addicted. It quickly turned into a full-time band. With "Black 'n' Roll", their first lunatic sign of life was thrown upon the world in 2009, and this gem lives up to its title. WHISKEY RITUAL combined the darkness and hatred that Black Metal exudes with a pinch of Rock 'n' Roll on their upcoming release as well, which leads to entertaining hymns about drugs, prostitutes, alcohol and of course Satan – true to the motto "Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll", yet with a grinning devil at the wheel. "In Goat We Trust" (2010), "Necronomicon" (2012) and "Blow With The Devil" (2015) paved the hellish path on which WHISKEY RITUAL walks today. Some line-up changes, a bit of fine-tuning in the songwriting and a new label in the back have pushed the madness instead of taking it down. "Black Metal Ultras" is a self-assured battle cry for 30 minutes that unites everything: brutality, hate, violence, intoxication and of course a good deal of badass Rock 'n' Roll. Cheers!
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Band:FLYKT
Album:CHARNEL HEART
Label:FOLTER RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
FLYKT was formed by ex members of VALKYRJA & REV 16:8 during the year 2016 in Stockholm, Sweden. The first album was recorded in 2018 in Wing Studios, Stockholm, and mixed at Studio Studio Nyhagen, Norway. Shortly after, a deal was made with German label Folter Records, and the debut album was scheduled for a spring 2019 release. The album, entitled Charnel Heart, serves as a vehicle of adversary, the death of the man and elevation of the beast. In the current state preparations are being made for what is next to come.
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Band:NOCTURNAL BREED
Album:WE ONLY CAME FOR THE VIOLENCE
Label:FOLTER RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:BLACK/THRASH METAL
NOCTRUNAL BREED are back! The legendary Norwegian Black / Thrash Metal band has always created a unique sound mixture. Black Metal, Thrash Metal and a wicked steak of classic Heavy Metal gives the band a huge addictive potential. So far, NOCTURNAL BREED have not only been known for their rousing albums in their more than 25 years of band history, but also for their high-energy perfomances at live shows. The band was founded in 1996 by S.A.Destroyer aka Svartalv, who already worked in grandiose black metal bands like Gehenna or Satyricon. Early on, the great potential of NOCTURNAL BREED, which was originally founded as a pure demo act, became apparent. The release of the debut album "Aggressor" (1997) was crowned with a legendary tour with EMPEROR.
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Band:SACROSANCT
Album:TRAGIC INTENSE
Label:LUSITANIAN MUSIC
Format:LP
Genre:PROGRESSIVE THRASH METAL
SACROSANCT third album, originally released in 1993 and now for the first time available on vinyl record format. An exuberant technical/progressive album, also deeply atmospheric, and retro thrash. Audio was completely remastered by Max Morton and Randy Meinhard at Morton Studios. Vinyl record cutted at 45rpm for better audio experience. Contains bonus tracks and extensive liner notes and never seen before fotos.
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Band:SACROSANCT
Album:TRAGIC INTENSE (BLUE VINYL)
Label:LUSITANIAN MUSIC
Format:LP
Genre:PROGRESSIVE THRASH METAL
SACROSANCT third album, originally released in 1993 and now for the first time available on vinyl record format. An exuberant technical/progressive album, also deeply atmospheric, and retro thrash. Audio was completely remastered by Max Morton and Randy Meinhard at Morton Studios. Vinyl record cutted at 45rpm for better audio experience. Contains bonus tracks and extensive liner notes and never seen before fotos.
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Band:GRIMTONE
Album:HYMNER TILL DODEN
Label:DOWNFALL RECORDS
Format:CDD
Genre:Black Metal
Formed in 2016, Grimtone is a black metal duo from Sweden. The music is pure second wave black metal with influences from DSBM on the vocals; Grim, harsh and cold! First album was released in 2017 called "Momento mori". The 2nd album was first released as a LTD. cassette in 25 copies, under the name "Morte In Vitam" 2019. The album was then renamed to "Hymner till döden" and with a new front cover, this will be out as Digipack-CD/ Digital in 2019 by Downfall Records.
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Band:INTOXICATE
Album:CROSS CONTAMINATION
Label:DOWNFALL RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:THRASH METAL
"8 songs of fast & melodic Thrash-Metal from Gothenburg, Sweden! The album is mixed by Anders Backelin (ex-Lord Belial) and mastered by Andy LaRoque. Cover art by Raimo K. Layout by Daniel T. The band was formed in 1988 and was one of the first Thrash-metal bands from the area. Now they are back and stronger than ever!"
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Band:DARK MATTER
Album:NEBULA TO BLACK HOLE
Label:MY KINGDOM MUSIC
Format:CD
Genre:EMOTIONAL DARK METAL
It's around early days of 2018 that Aria Moghaddam from Iran and his band mate Mehdi 14CH initiated the project DARK MATTER. It all started when after the experiences they had in other projects they realized the necessity to express their worlds in a new creature destined to mould, with their personal and unique sound, a melancholic and ethereal symbiosis of Gothic Doom riffs, Ambient atmospheres and Avantgarde sounds. The first label to believe in the band was My Kingdom Music and with them DARK MATTER released the first two singles: “Except Love” with Daniel Cavanagh and Fab Regmann as guests, and “Earthless Child”. After this they accepted MY KINGDOM MUSIC offer for the release of their debut album “Nebula To Black Hole” that will be released on January 31st, 2020. A long musical journey into their beautiful art is ready to begin.
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Band:XENOS
Album:FILTHGRINDER
Label:CLUB INFERNO
Format:CD
Genre:THRASH METAL
XENOS was born at the end of 2018 and it is the product of the mind of Ignazio Nicastro, bassist with the well-known Post Thrashers EVERSIN. The band is dedicated to a pure form of Thrash Metal, clearly inspired by Megadeth, Xentrix, Annihilator and Slayer without forgetting a strong dose of personality in every single composition. In 2019 the band records their debut album titled “Filthgrinder” a concentrate of devastating Thrash Metal in the old vein that will be out for CLUB INFERNO, a My Kingdom Music sublabel, in January 2020. Here you will find no compromises, no fashions, no bullshits, just Thrash Metal at all.
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Band:NULA
Album:POBJEDIMO LAZ
Label:PDV RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:PUNK/HARDCORE/CRUST
The cult hardcore punk band Nula from Šibenik, Croatia recorded a second demo material in late 1993 that was released as an album on an audiotape in 1994, called "Pobjedimo laž". Recorded live in the basement of the family tavern, which in those war days also served as a shelter, on equipment of questionable origin and quality. The first release was published alongside the 6th issue of Glans Penissis fanzine, and in the 1997 reissue for the independent label Humanita Nova. The album has also been licensed in the Czech Republic, Poland, and Japan, and traversed the dormant channels of the DIY scene before the time of computers and the internet. In 30 songs and over 70 minutes, "Pobjedimo laž" is an anthological realization of the early phase of the domestic underground, recorded literally 'underground', with uncompromising anti-war and anti-establishment messages, all presented with the accumulated frustration of a generation who felt that their best years are in jeopardy.
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Band:NULA
Album:POBJEDIMO LAZ
Label:PDV RECORDS
Format:DLP
Genre:PUNK/HARDCORE/CRUST
The cult hardcore punk band Nula from Šibenik, Croatia recorded a second demo material in late 1993 that was released as an album on an audiotape in 1994, called "Pobjedimo laž". Recorded live in the basement of the family tavern, which in those war days also served as a shelter, on equipment of questionable origin and quality. The first release was published alongside the 6th issue of Glans Penissis fanzine, and in the 1997 reissue for the independent label Humanita Nova. The album has also been licensed in the Czech Republic, Poland, and Japan, and traversed the dormant channels of the DIY scene before the time of computers and the internet. In 30 songs and over 70 minutes, "Pobjedimo laž" is an anthological realization of the early phase of the domestic underground, recorded literally 'underground', with uncompromising anti-war and anti-establishment messages, all presented with the accumulated frustration of a generation who felt that their best years are in jeopardy.
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Band:CONSECRATION
Album:PLAVA LAGUNA
Label:GEENGER RECORDS
Format:LP
Genre:POST METAL/POST ROCK/SLUDGE/PROG
Consecration is a post-metal / post-rock band formed in Belgrade, Serbia that is pretty much active since its formation in 2000. During their career, the band has evolved ideally, visually and musically during the years, and all of that occurred due to the constant line-up changes inside the band. From being a sextet, Consecration made some drastic lineup developments over the years and the current line up operates as a trio comprised of Danilo Nikodinovski (vocals, guitar, synth), Ivan Aranđelović (bass guitar), and Matija Dagović (drums), but that doesn't prevent them from delivering quality music nowadays.
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Band:MINDS COVE
Album:DRIFT
Label:REVALVE RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:HEAVY METAL
There's a place within us where the collective of our thoughts, memories, experiences and perceptions tacitly create something beyond expectations, waiting to be brought to light.Mind's Cove was born in 2016 as a Metal studio project by vocalist Matteo Melita, who felt he gathered so many musical ideas in his head that he had to let them out. With the help of Guitarist Sergio Camelia, He managed to to give those riffs and melodies a proper form. Together they began to write the eight songs he had in mind and when they felt it was necessary to take a further step, they recruited Andrea Calabro' on the drums. Andrea grew so fond of the project that he wanted to help funding it. All three contacted producer Marco Maria Pennisi in order to make a professional recording. A longtime friend and collaborator of Marco Maria, Angelo Trimarchi, took on the role of the bassist, so the newly formed Line-up began recording the tracks that make up the LP titled 'Drift'.
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Band:VACANT COFFIN
Album:SEWER SKULLPTURE
Label:SELFMADEGOD
Format:CD
Genre:METAL/DEATH METAL/GRIND
Debut album reissue with 8-song demo as bonus. Finnish death metal/grindcore at its best! Death comes fast! From out of the sewer comes the debut CD from Vacant Coffin. Sewer Skullpture is the debut mutant gross-out fest from Finland's Vacant Coffin! 16 ultra-ripping songs of furious death/grind bathed in slime, guts, and globs of exploded entrails! Features Lasse from the cult early 90's death metal band Phlegethon and horror doom bastards Hooded Menace! Prepare to be pulled into the sewer of the undead as blistering drum blasts and metallic-death-shredding riffs collide in a fury of glorious terror! This is total "Grindcrusher-era" death metal/grindcore in the style of the classic early albums from Morbid Angel, Napalm Death, Carcass, Bolt Thrower, Entombed, Terrorizer. Reissue includes 8-song "The Thrashed Supper" demo as bonus!
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Band:ASPHALT GRAVES
Album:THE NEW PRIMITIVE
Label:SELFMADEGOD
Format:CD
Genre:METAL/DEATH METAL/GRIND
US death/grind with members from Misery Index, GWAR, Dying Fetus and The Black Dhalia Murder. Brutal death/grind from former and current members of Misery Index, GWAR, Dying Fetus and The Black Dhalia Murder. This thing shreds from front to back in the classic death-grind style supreme. 13 tracks of politically abusive and bleakly literate critique. "The New Primitive" mastered by Scott Hull at Visceral Sound. The outcome is a modern take on the classic death/grind of the 1990s, with influences coming from bands likes Repulsion, Napalm Death, Edge of Sanity, Brutality, Righteous Pigs, Nasum, Lock Up, Phobia, Terrorizer, Disrupt, Carcass and more.
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Band:DEIVOS
Album:CASUS BELLI
Label:SELFMADEGOD
Format:CD
Genre:METAL/DEATH METAL
Poland-based death metal destroyers Deivos present the band's annihilating sixth studio full-length "Casus Belli". 8 songs of highest calibre brutal and technical death metal for fans of Suffocation, Cryptopsy, Decapitated, Morbid Angel. The album was recorded at several different locations including Roslyn Studio (Dira Mortis, Mort'a'stigmata, Stillborn) and Zed Studio (Decapitated, Kat) mixed and mastered at Zed Studio by Tomek Zalewski.
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Band:ANAKROSIS
Album:PERPETUAL NIGHTMARE
Label:COYOTE RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:BRUTAL DEATH METAL
Coyote Records presents a new album by Spanish techno brutal death metal hurricane ANAKROSIS called «Perpetual Nightmare»! This storm wind is for those of thrill-seekers, who likes such natural phenomenon like CEREBRAL EFFUSION, HOUR OF PENANCE, MASS INFECTION, ABOMINABLE PUTRIDITY and so on. Ten-point earthquake will bury us 12/10/2019! Basque Country band, formed in 2016, by members of the extinct band Dislexia (grindcore band created in the early 90s). In 2016 a CD with old songs of Dislexia is self-published; "Ez dut nahi zuen bakea". Concerts are given as a trio by Basque Country and Spain.
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Band:SILVERSTAGE
Album:SILVERSTAGE
Label:M & O MUSIC
Format:CDD
Genre:HEAVY METAL
At the crossroads of 80’s hard-rock and metal of today, Silverstageis a parisian quartetformed in 2013. After a few line-up changes, an EP released in 2015 and lots of concerts (with Savage UK and Battle Beastamongothers), Silverstage has become a rock’n roll machine in studio as much as on stage. Recorded and mixed by Marc Varez (Vulcain) at Studio La Grange 69 and mastered by HK Krauss at Vamacara Studio (Dagoba, Loudblast), Silverstagedebut album « Heart n’Balls »brings a new vibeto the world of heavymetal.
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