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Band:PORTAL
Album:VEXOVOID
Label:Profound Lore
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
There has been no death metal band in the genre’s history as bizarre, unique, and aesthetically engaging as Australia’s PORTAL. Whether it would be the band’s singular vision through their polarizing music, their otherworldly live show, or the visual imagery the band portray themselves as, PORTAL have incidentally, slowly building over the last ten or so years through this crawling culmination, set a new standard within the death metal scene and have given new meaning to the term “death metal” respectively.
It was a sound unheard of, that PORTAL emanated through the artistic surrealist death metal psychosis; weird rhythms and perplexing musical structures to create this cinematic soundscape of sheer terror and horror. Like a soundtrack to a Lovecraftian nightmare manifested, PORTAL would bring sonic plague and disease through three full-length albums which helped signal the future of death metal, the last one “Swarth” being the band’s most recognized album that was released in 2009. The follow-up to “Swarth”, entitled “Vexovoid”, sees PORTAL taking their sound even further with their biggest and most dense sounding album to date and taking their artistry to new levels unheard of and proving once again why they are the harbingers of the new coming dreadful age of death metal.
“Vexovoid” is one of the most anticipated and important death metal albums to be released in 2013 - PORTAL are now known as one of the most innovative bands in the death metal genre to emerge in the last ten years and one of the most important death metal bands today
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Band:HELEN MONEY
Album:ARRIVING ANGELS
Label:Profound Lore
Format:CD
Genre:Avant-Garde
The new album from avant-classical virtuoso cellist Helen Money (aka Alison Chesley) is entitled “Arriving Angels”. This is the third full-length album Chesley has recorded under the moniker Helen Money. She created Helen Money to showcase her compositions and her very uncommon approach on the cello, but also has quite the repertoire at her disposal. Aside from her solo work as Helen Money and her classical upbringing, Chesley has played on over 100 albums with such artists as Bob Mould, Disturbed, Mono, Anthrax, Broken Social Scene, Yakuza, Russian Circles, and Archer Prewitt among others. Chesley has also composed music for film and dance, including the soundtrack to the award-winning documentary Indestructible. Chesley was also part of the acoustic rock duo Verbow, releasing two albums on Epic Records in the nineties and toured nationally for seven years opening for such acts as Frank Black, Bob Mould, Counting Crows, Live, Morrissey, and Liz Phair. As Helen Money, Chesley has opened for bands as diverse as Mono, Earth, The Bad Plus, Nina Nastasia, and toured the U.S. and Europe extensively with Steve Albini’s band Shellac.
Nonetheless, “Arriving Angels” (which will feature artwork and design by Steve Byram, responsible for the design of “Reign In Blood” and “Licensed To Ill”!) will be one of the most intriguing Profound Lore releases to date. Recorded, engineered, and mixed by the iconic Steve Albini in Electrical Audio and also featuring Neurosis drummer Jason Roeder on four tracks, “Arriving Angels” is unique opus which comprises an intriguing mix of classical composition, experimental music, and progressive dirge-like metal, all displayed through the sole vessel of the cello.
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Band:BAUHAUS
Album:GOTHAM - DVD
Label:PLANETWORKS
Format:DVD
Genre:Dark Wave/Goth
Bauhaus live at the Hammerstein Ballroom, NYC during their legendary reunion tour from 1998.
Now available on Region 0 DVD.
Classic Live Footage of the legendary Bauhaus • Over an hour long.
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Band:BAUHAUS
Album:GOTHAM - CD
Label:PLANETWORKS
Format:2 CD
Genre:Dark Wave/Goth
A double CD of live performance by the pioneering Gothic act's 1998 tour. Features a studio rendition of Dead Can Dance's ''Severance'' only available here.
TRACK LISTING DISC 1 DISC 2 01. Double Dare 14. Telegram Sam 02. In the Flat Field 15. Ziggy Stardust 03. A God In a Alcove 16. Bela Legosi's Dead 04. In Fear of Fear 17. All We Ever Wanted 05. Hollow Hills 18. Spirit 06. Kick in the Eye 19. Severance (studio version) 07. Terror Couple Kill Colonel 08. Silent Hedges 09. Severance 10. Boys 11. She's in Parties 12. The Passion of Lovers 13. Dark Entries
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Band:ROBBY KRIEGER
Album:SINGULARITY
Label:PLANETWORKS
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Rock
First album in over a decade from legendary Doors guitarist Robby Krieger now available on Vinyl!
Whenever an album contains intros that stretch over the three-minute mark, it's a safe bet that the record can't be called "urgent," and so is the case with Singularity, Robby Krieger's first album in a decade. Like Cinematix before it, Singularity is a jazz fusion session in an old-fashioned sense, relying on Rhodes keyboards and lite funk grooves, sounding a bit like a cross between Jeff Beck's Blow by Blow and Steely Dan's Aja, graced with a little bit of Boz Scaggs' cool touch and a lot of Krieger's winding single-note lines. There may be a clear through-line from the guitar solo of "Light My Fire" to this, but that doesn't mean Krieger is playing it safe: on those intros he indulges in some fleet flamenco fingerwork, easily the most notable new wrinkle among the ten cuts here, but even when he eases back to his comfort zone, there's a fluidity in his fretwork that keeps things engaging
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Band:VARIOUS ARTISTS
Album:THE WASTED YEARS
Label:ACE OF HEARTS
Format:CD
Genre:Garage Punk
Hear the story of legendary label Ace Of Hearts Records featuring Mission Of Burma, Lyres, Del Fuegoes, Nervous Eaters and many more!
This compilation, released by Boston indie label Ace of Hearts, samples the work of its artists from the early '80s to the mid-'90s. The material on The Wasted Years ranges from the brilliant and visceral lo-fi American mid-western post-punk of Mission of Burma, Lyres, and Del Fuegos. Produced by label owner and legendary producer, Rick Harte, this album includes some classics along with rarities of the overlooked material that the label released.
TRACK LISTING 1. Ali Frama – Infliktors 12. Distraught And Out Of Control - Chaotic Past 2. Crying In The Rain - Del Fuegos 13. Stacy - Lyres 3. Progress - Mission Of Burma 14. Keep Your Hands Off That Bottle - Martin Paul 4. Innocence Lost - The Neighborhoods 15. We Sell Soul - Lyres 5. Come Down - Tomato Monkey 16. Electricity - Thw Neigborhoods 6. Red On White - Nervous Eaters 17. My Philosopher - The Wild Stares 7. Slide - Tomato Monkey 18. Song For Mrs. Green - Steve Cataldo 8. Have It With Your Coffee - Nervous Eaters 19. Bondage Between The Mountains - Chaotic Past 9. Mostly Torso - Tomato Monkey 20. Halfway To Heaven - Martin Paul 10. Night & Fog - The Wild Stares 21. Inad Oolop - Crab Daddy 11. I'll Never Sing This Song Again - John Felice 22. Side By Side - Chaotic Past 23. Max Ernst - Mission Of Burma
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Band:VARIOUS ARTISTS
Album:12 CLASSIC 45`S
Label:PLANETWORKS
Format:CD
Genre:Garage Punk
A great look back at Ace Of Hearts Records, the label who released the finest American Rock music during the new wave era.
There's no arguing that most of what Ace Of Hearts released in their classic era (1978-1980) was brilliant stuff. Label owner and legendary producer, Rick Harte, had a ear for great bands and an admirable commitment to quality. If all Harte ever did was record and release the first singles from the Lyres and Mission of Burma, he'd have earned a place of honor in the halls of the American rock community, and 12 Classic 45s, which collects the material from 12 noteworthy Ace of Hearts 7"s, confirms his knack for finding great music.
TRACK LISTING 1. The Infliktors - Where'd You Get That Cigarette; 13. Neats - Harbor Lights; 2. The Infliktors - Everybody Wants To Survive; 14. Mission of Burma - Trem Two; 3. The Neighborhoods - Prettiest Girl; 15. Mission of Burma - OK/No Way; 4. The Neighborhoods - No Place Like Home; 16. Lyres - Someone Who'll Treat You Right; 5. Classic Ruins - 1+1<2; 17. Lyres - She Pays the Rent; 6. Classic Ruins - Heart Attack; 18. Lyres - How Do You Know?; 7. Classic Ruins - Nyquil Stinger; 19. Lyres - Stacey; 8. Mission of Burma - Academy Fight Song; 20. Tomato Monkey - Mostly Torso; 9. Mission of Burma - Max Ernst; 21. Tomato Monkey - Joe Transit; 10. Lyres - I Want to Help You Ann; 22. Chaotic Past - Distraught and Out of Co 11. Lyres - I Really Want You Right Now; 23. Chaotic Past - Feel My (Dot Dot Dot); 12. Neats - Caraboo; 24. Chaotic Past - New Young Girl; 25 25 Chaotic Past - My Size
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Band:VENOMOUS MAXIMUS
Album:BEG UPON THE LIGHT - LP
Label:OCCULTURE
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Venomous Maximus is one of the most successful metal bands to emerge from Houston in years, beloved of headbangers and headbanging blogs from across the U.S. and points beyond (maybe even astronauts). Since its formation in 2010, the group has become the go-to metal band in the country's third-largest city, winning back-to-back titles at the Houston Press Music Awards as the Space City's "Best Metal Band" and has shared the stage with the like-minded Mastodon, Pentagram, Saint Vitus, The Sword, Graveyard and more. Now, with the release of Beg Upon the Light, VENOMOUS MAXIMUS is ready to show the world that its reputation precedes it for a reason.
LTD VINYL LP - For fans of The Devils Blood, Ghost, Pentagram, Uncle Acid, Mastodon, The Sword.
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Band:PETER STAMPFEL AND THE ETHER FROLIC MOB
Album:THE SOUND OF AMERICA
Label:BURNSIDE
Format:CD
Genre:Folk
The Ether Frolic Mob came about in 2006 when John Cohen (founding member of New Lost City Rambler's with Mike Seeger and Tom Paley) formed the Velocity Ramblers with Peter Stampfel, Walker & Sam Shepard and Betty Berkin. Then Peter and John launched the Ether Frolic Mob, Walker Shepard joined, bringing along his bandmates Eli Smith and Craig Judelman from the world renowned string band The Dustbusters. Poet, artist and musician, Jane Gilday, Hubby Jenkins, (Carolina Chocolate Drops), Jeannie Scofield (The Boy Bathing), and Zoe Stampfel, Peter's delightful and zany daughter, round out the group. Stampfel promises, "will stick our hands up the butt of American music, grab it by the throat, and pull it inside-out. It's 21st century 19th century American music played in a vast variety of 20th century styles."...and by golly they do it!
Peter Sampfel is one of the founds of the Freak Folkmovement and The Holy Modal Rounders has a world wide fan base, along with John Cohen, another Folk hero.
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Band:MOTHERSHIP
Album:MOTHERSHIP
Label:RIPPLE MUSIC
Format:CD
Genre:Classic Rock/Metal
70's-tinged U.S. hard rock with a sound that satisfies like a steaming hot stew of UFO and Iron Maiden, blended with the southern swagger of Molly Hatchet and ZZ Top, Mothership’s goal from the beginning has been to carry on the tradition of the classic rock style; updated and amped up for the modern day. Originally self-released in 2012, Mothership and Ripple Music have joined forces to re-release this stunning debut record on CD.
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Band:MOTHERSHIP
Album:MOTHERSHIP - LP
Label:RIPPLE MUSIC
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Classic Rock/Metal
70's-tinged U.S. hard rock with a sound that satisfies like a steaming hot stew of UFO and Iron Maiden, blended with the southern swagger of Molly Hatchet and ZZ Top, Mothership’s goal from the beginning has been to carry on the tradition of the classic rock style; updated and amped up for the modern day. Originally self-released in 2012, Mothership and Ripple Music have joined forces to re-release this stunning debut record on LP (package includes an 11” x 17” poster and download cards).
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Band:EAGULLS
Album:EAGULLS
Label:Deranged
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
The ferocious post-punk 5 piece bands, Eagulls based in Leeds, England are pleased to share their 5 track EP on Canada’s prestigious punk label Deranged. A few lucky folks have been able to catch the band’s European shows. The shows received high accolades as some of the most thrilling and visceral performances ever. EAGULLS has shared the stage with Iceage, Cloud Nothings, Ceremony, and Fucked Up. The five tracks - “Coffin”, “Moulting”, “No If’s, No Buts”, “Cripple” and “Still Born”; Drawing from a wide variety of influences, EAGULLS manage to create something new, while still paying homage to classical punk.
"The five tracks - 'Coffin', 'Moulting', 'No If's, No Buts', 'Cripple (Hypokalemic Periodic Paralysis)' and 'Still Born'; bring to mind melodic slacker rock such as Sebadoh, Dinosaur Jr and Sonic Youth amalgamated with Eagulls earlier more brutal sound, influenced heavily by The Wipers, Rites of Spring and Black Flag. This is all delivered with a mischievous Blur-esque charm and The Replacements sense of reckless abandon." - The Fader
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Band:ALTERNATIVE 4
Album:THE BRINK - DELUXE EDITION
Label:8MERCH
Format:DBL LP VINYL
Genre:Alt Rock
Duncan Patterson, the main composer of the most acclaimed ANATHEMA albums, continues his artistic journey in the new band ALTERNATIVE 4, which style he describes as cinematic rock with classical arrangement.
The band members feature also Mark Kelson (THE ETERNAL) and Argentinean drummer Mauro Frison. The musicians recorded most of the material in Ireland, with additional orchestral parts recorded in Mexico. All these elements constitute to international and universal character of the whole project.
Spatial, intriguing and extremely atmospheric soundscapes, which fill "The Brink", make these songs so utterly beautiful.
New band from Duncan Patterson (Anathema, Antimatter) - Line-up features Mark Kelson (The Eternal). Outstanding 180g audiophile pressing on double vinyl - Each copy comes with a numbered gold audiophile hologram.
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Band:PAGAN ALTAR
Album:MYTICAL AND MAGICAL
Label:Cruz Del Sur
Format:CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
From the wizard's bag of Cruz Del Sur's magic tricks here comes the re-issue of the long awaited youngest Pagan Altar album to date: “Mythical & Magical”. Re-awakening in 1998 with the official release of the early material that eventually came to the name of “Volume 1”, after 2 decades of artistical sleep, the growing fan base from all over the world witnessed Lords of Hypocrisy in 2004. Yet, in 2006 a new piece of Doom from its finest pioneers comes out of the dark in all its majestic splendour and we are very pleased to deliver it to you all once and for all.
Mythical & Magical, highly welcomed and praised from the public at its first appearance, contains songs that never saw the light in the first incarnation of the band, material written between 1978 and 1983, then re-recorded in 2005/2006 at the band's own Oracle Studios. With their music Brockley's hard-knock fellowship takes you to “lonely shores” to hear the Cry of the Banshee or in the presence of the Sorcerer and the Crowman, to witness the Flight of the Witch Queen and at the sacred night of Samhein, the night of the dead. Without any doubt a journey of both gentle and heavy traits that won't fail to leave signs in the listener.
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Band:SACRED STEEL
Album:THE BLOODSHED SUMMONING
Label:Cruz Del Sur
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
"Far from any cliché, at the same time knee-deep within any metal cliché. Sacred Steel have always been polarizing the metal audience. There’s no way that the earthshaking sound of the Ludwigsburg metal commando can leave a listener untouched. Love them or hate them: rarely a band on the metal scene in these days has met the same paradigm. Now, after fifteen years of battles for metal, Sacred Steel are ready to unleash their 8th studio opus. ‘The Bloodshed Summoning’ comes more than three years after the acclaimed ‘Carnage Victory’ and, well, it was worth the wait. Recorded in Poland and produced by the band itself in corporation with Bart Gabriel, the album kicks massive ass once again, showing a band stronger and angrier than ever, once again sporting a true metal attitude that most bands only could dream of. ‘The Bloodshed Summoning’ offers twelve tracks of pure skull-crushing metal, in the purest tradition of Sacred Steel. The pounding drums of Mathias Straub, the roaring bass of Kai Schindelar, the screaming guitars of Jens Sonnenberg and Jonas Khalil and the soaring vocals of Gerrit P. Mutz, once again screaming his heart out on lyrics loaded with blasphemy and rage: none of the trademark of the band has been forgotten, none of them failed to appear. And the same time, the new album could easily be spotted as the freshest and most variable in the whole discography of Sacred Steel: from pounding double-bass attacks to darkened mid-tempos, through galloping riff storms, ‘The Bloodshed Summoning’ offers everything to delight any Sacred Steel maniac and true metal lover. And again, it’s an album far from any possible compromise. You will love it or hate it. Yet, it won’t leave you untouched" (Sandro Buti / Metal Maniac)
Very well-known German band, previously on Metal Blade and Massacre Records.
Wonderful packaging, 20-page comic-like booklet.
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Band:STEWART FRANCKE
Album:LOVE IMPLIED
Label:BURNSIDE
Format:CD
Genre:Rock
"Stewart Francke makes beautiful music." -- Bruce Springsteen
Stewart Francke releases Love Implied, his follow up to 2011’s comeback cd Heartless World, a record that won Francke new fans worldwide via his scorching duet with Bruce Springsteen, “Summer Soldier.” In addition to the duet with Springsteen, Francke and his band carry the momentum of having performed with Bob Seger, Warren Zevon, Chicago, Steve Earle and Stevie Winwood. Love Implied started out as a very simple, acoustic music,” Francke says, “played by real people, with real emotional input. But then it was layered into this lush Wall of Sound with acoustic guitars, a lot of slide playing, and vocal harmonies. I love the sound of this record.” As the title of this new record connotes, the new cd has a lot to do with how adults experience each other in love, or in a marriage, or in a complicated relationship. “I'm trying to cover a lot of ground when it comes to love implied or otherwise on this record. I just hope my fans love the varied styles and stories, as usual.”
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Band:JEREMY DUBS
Album:THE WORDS
Label:BURNSIDE
Format:CD
Genre:Dance/Electronica
Jeremy Dubs is back with his sophomore album The Words, An homage to all miracles and mysteries. Buzzing with electric optimism, simple pop tunes are metamorphosed into ecstatic chants and symphonies of celebration. Vocal harmonies swirl into marvelous chords amidst bubbling synths and clanging bells. The Words is bursting with life and each song carries an affectionate vitality that never ceases to point onward and upward, towards the miraculous and mysterious just beneath the surface. The Words also features five classic covers, including Leon Russell’s “A Song For You” and Harry Nilsson’s “Point of View Waltz” (featured in the film The Point!).
New Release from Frank Blacks’ label - The Bureau.
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Band:VAMPIRE LEZBOS
Album:VAMPIRE LEZBOS
Label:BURNSIDE
Format:CD
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
Lost gems from a forgotten punk scene! Re-issue of long out-of-print 1987 S/T debut by Vampire Lezbos, melodic hardcore with lively hooks and lyrics with political and social concerns. 13 original + 10 bonus tracks of what Razorcake calls "fast and angry but with more rock'n'roll vibe" and Ugly Things describes as "top notch hardcore"
Named from the Cramps song and born in the summer of Orwell's 1984, VL defied all odds by escaping the backwater conservative town of Spokane, WA: recording, extensive touring, and playing with the likes of D.O.A., Circle Jerks, Fugazi, Bad Religion, L7, Nirvana, and many more. Vampire Lezbos were also prominently featured in the documentary film SpokAnarchy!
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Band:BAD THOUGHTS
Album:BAD THOUGHTS
Label:METAL POSTCARD
Format:CD
Genre:Dance/Electronica
Hailing from Melbourne, Bad Thoughts is Milo Kossowski (vocals and gadgets), and some>me bandmate Daina Fanning (backup doo‐‐‐wop), performing pop as seen and heard through a wall of haze. In the past Daina and Milo have released work together on New Weird Australia as Peace Out, and on Exo and Metal Postcard as The Emergency. Bad Thoughts has had airplay on RRR, FBI, PBS and JJJ, released a tape on Magic Rub CasseRes (USA), fielded compliments from the blogosphere, and now has a full length digital LP out on Metal Postcard (USA/Hong Kong). Milo recently returned from Bad Thoughts' first U.S. date at Some>mes a Great No>on, a one‐‐‐off music fes>val in Portland, Oregon, where he played alongside acts such as Ed Kuepper (The Saints) and Peaking Lights.
"It almost sounds like an impossible cocktail yet 'Remember' manages to successfully blend searing, slow‐motion shoegaze riffs with some pristine electronic atmospheres" ‐ Triple J - National Radio Australia
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Band:WHITE FANG
Album:HIGH EXPECTATIONS
Label:METAL POSTCARD
Format:LP
Genre:Punk / Proto Punk
Metal Postcard Records is very excited to bring you a slice of the best vinyl you’re going to hear in the next decade by Portland (OR’s) White Fang. The US press will quote you lot’s of obscure underground bands that you’ve never heard of to try and explain how they sound. It’s much easier than that. Take one part Happy Mondays, one part Fall “Live At The Witchtrials” then throw in the anarchy of the Butthole Surfers and a bit of Cheap Trick ! and you have one of the most perfect bands on planet earth Not only do they have a sound that rock stoner heads have been waiting for since the MC5 their live shows are smart, sharp and stoned all at the same time. No self indulgent stuck over the bong songs, instead if it’s longer that 4 minutes there must be something wrong. High Expectations is an album that makes you want to be 15 all over again and again and again....... And the best thing of all they do it all themselves....
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Band:CRIMINAL CODE
Album:HOLLOWED
Label:Deranged
Format:7" VINYL
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
It used to be easy to describe Criminal Code. From the onset, they came across as straightforward sounding mid 80s Midwest hardcore styled three piece with Taiga on guitar Andrew handling the basslines. Hook filled and moodily earnest, proudly wielding a love for Husker Du. Crim Code quickly became favorites of the Northwest hardcore scene. After a handful of west coast tours and a couple of limited self released rarities, Crim Code added Miles on second guitar and Jawsh on drums.... This is where the comparisons to other acts ends.
Having saw them play three times in the past 10 days I can only describe them as themselves. Once in front of a group of black clad doom punks they came off as a tightly wound psychedelic nightmare, as if My Bloody Valentine grew up playing Middle Class covers. The next, in a room filled with knucke dragging skinheads the doomiest pop you could imagine at a deafening level. The third still a pounding set of shouted agit-punk anthems that could have been the best record SST never released. With this, their third vinyl release, and the first for Deranged they continue to push the boundaries of what it means to be a a modern hardcore punk band.
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Band:BRAIN TUMORS
Album:FUCK YOU FOREVER
Label:Deranged
Format:7" VINYL
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
Midwest hardcore punk venom. Fast, retarded, and sure to please.
Blistering eight track 7"
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Band:SYSTEMATIK
Album:SYSTEMATIK
Label:Deranged
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
Raw Hardcore from Vancouver B.C with a solid D-Beat backbone that doesn’t bore you to tears. Searing guitar work and a vocalist that can actually manage to convey his live frustration through recorded media, a rare feat. A distinct sound is hard to pinpoint. Influences range all over the place from Death Side to Poison Idea. Everyone will tell you something different, make your own judgement. Features members of Unlearn and Vacant State - After the break-up of Unlearn the guitarist set out to get another project started as soon as possible, actually only within a few days he and Isaiah (vocalist) started working together. After a few months, a few bassists and a few drummers, a solid lineup developed and a demo was recorded in Dec.2011. The S/T LP was recorded in april.2012 in Portland with Stan Wright while touring the West Coast.
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Band:PREGNANCY SCARES
Album:PREGNANCY SCARES
Label:Deranged
Format:7" VINYL
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
Pissed off punk from Ottawa, Ontario. Building from the chaos of their 2011 demo tape, Pregnancy Scares’ debut 7” represents a band that have spent the past year honing their craft without sacrificing the relentless rhythms, vocal venom, or “Born Against aggro-in-the-raw, art-wracked Circus Lupus styling”, that’s become synonymous with Pregnancy Scares since their inception.
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Band:NO MORE ART
Album:TOUGH TO BREATHE
Label:Deranged
Format:VINYL 7"
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
No More Art is comprised of people from rather dissimilar backgrounds in music, but the elements are easy enough to lay out. There are the surf-drenched guitars, the complementary female vocals, and the rock ‘n’ roll frenzy of X (Los Angeles), some of what has been brewing in Denmark and Sweden over the last decades with bands like MASSHYSTERI / VICIOUS, and NO HOPE FOR THE KIDS, but also with lots of melody and leads that is reminiscent of 80's LA bands like SOCIAL DISTORTION and ADOLESCENTS, all infused with a unique quality of their own.
Lead singer Milo has been around for some years now as a singer song writer in her own solo project ROSIE TIE. Drummer Juan Miguel has been busy on the heavier side of music, playing guitar in bands like LOS DOLARES, LEADERSHIT, ETACARINAE, and PELIGRO!, in Barcelona over the past decade. Will has also done time in many bands over the past decade with groups BORN/DEAD, DESOLATION, SUICIDE BOMB, DOPECHARGE, and most recently Portland's RED DONS.
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Band:CASANOVAS IN HEAT
Album:RUINS.
Label:Deranged
Format:VINYL 7"
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
Casanovas In Heat are a punk band from Boston, MA. Formed in 2010, neighborhood chums, Davy & Con (also of MALE NURSES) decided to take a whack at high-energy, sweat-induced, melodic punk that they had been screwing around with since they were teenagers. They recruited fellow mavericks, Steve & Sean, to complete the dream team. Sparked by a wide-range of influences, the Casanovas want nothing more than to turn every day into a night, and every night into a crusade. Think the REPLACEMENTS and NAKED RAYGUN mix matched...
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Band:WOLFHEAD
Album:WOLFHEAD
Label:DOOMENTIA
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
You’d think that a band born in 2008 after some drunk rehearsals in between black/death outfit BETWEEN THE FROST guitarist Iosue and guitar-wizard-cum-producer and leader of old-school death-metal warlords GRAVEYARD would only mean buzzsaw guitars, grinding drums and putrid production wouldn’t you? Except that WOLFHEAD won’t let be pigeonholed that easily and Javi himself step furiously on any possible categorisation: “It lies somewhere rock n’roll, heavy-metal, stoner, doom, grunge, black-metal, whatever! A song sounds like BATHORY but then moves on to TROUBLE territories, then towards MOTÖRHEAD highway before taking a left-turn somewhere in between old ENSLAVED and DARKTHRONE… IN a way, it’s the exact opposite of GRAVEYARD that stands for a very specific sound. For WOLFHEAD, whatever sounds cool to our ears will make it, let it be keyboards, harmonized vocals, strange instrument or even harmonica!” Confused? You betcha. And don’t you forget some ALICE IN CHAINS, BLACK SABBATH or SOLITUDE AETERNUS thrown in the bin for good measure…
Recorded in Barcelona in Javi’s own Moontower studios in between October 2008 and December 2009, such a mix bag could easily have been a recipe for disaster without the proper vocalist to pull it off. Enter Ivan, the already legendary frontman of the sadly defunct GREAT COVEN, whose legacy is now being carried by WARCHETYPE: he might be the only guy in this galaxy capable to have one foot in Birmingham circa 1970 and the other one in Valhalla along Thor the god of thunder, as exampled on the eight minutes plus epic, “Sons Of Asgard”. Or pull off such a relaxed and yet fitting performance for the band’s surprising entirely acoustic rendition of PINK FLOYD’s ode to their fallen brother Syd Barrett, “Wish You Were Here”.
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Band:OLD FUNERAL
Album:OUR CONDOLENCES
Label:SOULSELLER
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
Old Funeral was born 17th of May 1988 and died in October 1992. This album contains what happened in between. No tracks are re-mixed, nothing has been touched up. It's all straight from original tapes. These recordings feature legendary artists (members of BURZUM, IMMORTAL, HADES, The BATALLION) in several unique line ups pioneering some of the oldest Norwegian black, deathrash and death metal! This complete compilation, featuring ALL tracks Old Funeral ever recorded, follows Old Funeral from their rebellious youth through to an ending in darkness.
Absolute CULT material by legendary members of IMMORTAL, BURZUM, HADES and The BATALLION! • 2 discs featuring the COMPLETE discography of one of the oldest Norwegian extreme metal acts!
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Band:OLD FUNERAL
Album:OUR CONDOLENCES - LP
Label:SOULSELLER
Format:DLP
Genre:Black Metal
Old Funeral was born 17th of May 1988 and died in October 1992. This album contains what happened in between. No tracks are re-mixed, nothing has been touched up. It's all straight from original tapes. These recordings feature legendary artists (members of BURZUM, IMMORTAL, HADES, The BATALLION) in several unique line ups pioneering some of the oldest Norwegian black, deathrash and death metal! This complete compilation, featuring ALL tracks Old Funeral ever recorded, follows Old Funeral from their rebellious youth through to an ending in darkness.
DELUXE LIMITED DOUBLE LP WITH FULL PRINTED INNER SLEEVES ON 180 GRAMS VINYL! • Absolute CULT material by legendary members of IMMORTAL, BURZUM, HADES and The BATALLION! • 2 discs featuring the COMPLETE discography of one of the oldest Norwegian extreme metal acts!
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Band:CHAOS UK
Album:CHAOS UK
Label:PHR RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
One of the most popular UK '82 punk bands and their debut album.
Official re-release on CD with nice digipack cover.
West Country Cider fuelled punk rock fury !
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Band:CHAOS UK
Album:CHAOS UK - LP
Label:PHR RECORDS
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
One of the most popular UK '82 punk bands and their debut album.
Official re-release on vinyl with printed inner sleeve.
11 West Country punk classics!
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Band:BLITZ
Album:VOICE OF A GENERATION
Label:PHR RECORDS
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
Legendary oi/punk album originally released by No Future records in 1982. This is official repressing and the album is so available on classic vinyl format after a very long time! Blitz was one of the best punkrock bands of 1980s and songs from this album is still classic punk hits covered also by many other bands over the world
Includes sheet with band’s history and poster.
"The word's 'classic album' are overused - But this is one." - Tim Armstrong (Rancid)
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Band:999
Album:DEATH IN SOHO
Label:PHR RECORDS
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
999 is together with The Vibrators or The Stranglers one of just few bands from the first wave of UK punk rock which are still active. Still touring over world and making albums. All 15 songs reflect a band with 30 years experience. Nice punk '77 songs and many new ones the band are playing @ gigs. Produced by Pat Collier (ex-The Vibrators).
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Band:THE VIBRATORS
Album:ENERGIZE
Label:PHR RECORDS
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
It was 1976 when The Vibrators first entered the live stage… since then they never have paused!
The band still tour all over the world and make new albums. The Vibrators are living legends of punk rock, but they do not live just from history. Their new albums are still at a high standard - a mix of 77 punk with hardrock rules! Faster punk songs, slower ballads, but still big musicial quality.
Energize is their 2002 album originally released as CD on Track Records. This is the only edition on vinyl.
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Band:ANTI NOWHERE LEAGUE
Album:THIS IS WAR
Label:PHR RECORDS
Format:VINYL 7"
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
Unique release by Anti-Nowhere League, one of the most popular UK punk bands. Nice looking picture vinyl at paper cover with classic band artwork. Song on the first side “This Is War” is new song unreleased on any of previous band’s albums. The B-Side contains very special unplugged version of “Good As It Gets” song from Road to Rampton album.
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Band:VICE SQUAD
Album:LONDON UNDERGROUND
Label:PHR RECORDS
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
Vice Squad and Beki Bondage is a guarantee of quality. The first two albums from the early 1980's are classics.
Now in a new century they are back and strongest then ever. Making new albums, playing gigs all over the world.
London Underground is their 2009 album and this is first vinyl edition of this is album. Beautiful cover artwork, punk songs and a few hard rock influences. Really one of the best Vice Squad albums...
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Band:SHINDIG MAGAZINE
Album:ISSUE 31
Label:VOLCANO PUBLISHING
Format:MAGAZINE
Genre:Psych/Garage Reissues
Issue 31 of Shindig! magazine - Psych, garage, prog, powerpop, soul, folk… for people who want more!
This issue features : SHOCKING BLUE Long And Lonesome Road: The Dutch Pop Machine That Ate The World THE ROLLING STONES Into The Dark Heart Of Their Satanic Majesties Request IAIN MATTHEWS From Fairport To Southern Comfort And Beyond JELLYFISH Short-lived Saviours Of Retro Pop With A Sting In The Tail THE CHOIR & CYRUS ERIE Back To The Mod Roots Of The Raspberries. RICHARD THOMPSON,ASSOCIATION, MYNAH BIRDS • JEFFERSON AIRPLANE and much more...
Available from all good independents and mail orders!
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Band:THE HONEY POT
Album:TO THE EDGE OF THE WORLD
Label:MEGA DODO
Format:CD
Genre:Psych/Garage
The Honey Pot formed in 2012 as a five piece band playing a blend of '60s psyche that has its boots in the past but its head in the future. Drawing on that unique English inheritance of the surreal and the strange, but not afraid to indulge in an American West-Coast style adventure, they purvey a warm brew of hazy recollections and black penny grooves….
The Honey Pot will be touring to support the release of their debut album during April and May.
As seen in Shindig! magazine.
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Band:PREACHER AND BEAR
Album:THE STORM HAS COME
Label:Blackstarfoundation
Format:CD
Genre:Alt-Country / Americana
The Storm Has Come”. That’s the title of Preacher and Bears second album. The album will be released in February of 2013, but already the expectations are high on the Gothenburg folk pop duo. There’s been two years since they released their debut album “Suburban Island”, partly produced by the legendary Ebbot Lundberg from “The Soundtrack Of Our Lives”. Since then Elin Piel and Fredrik Petterson has taken their time to really emerge as a band. The playfulness heard on their debut album is still there, but the band has sharpened their knives and taken on a more radical point of view. The messages are more a smack in the face than a slap at the wrist. Still there are some tracks that completely hit you in the heart with stories of love and longing. Even though the production is bigger than on the previous album “Suburban Island”, you can still hear the trade marked guitar of Fredrik Petterson and the intriguing vocals of Elin Piel. The tracks build off each other and create a weave of stories about injustice, sadness, love, struggle and hope. Elin and Fredrik mix complete hopelessness with utter joy. This is one of the bands fortes.
If PJ Harvey and The Cave Singers had a love child, it would probably sound like Preacher and Bear.
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Band:PREACHER AND BEAR
Album:THE STORM HAS COME - LP
Label:Blackstarfoundation
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Alt-Country / Americana
"The Storm Has Come”. That’s the title of Preacher and Bears second album. The album will be released in February of 2013, but already the expectations are high on the Gothenburg folk pop duo. There’s been two years since they released their debut album “Suburban Island”, partly produced by the legendary Ebbot Lundberg from “The Soundtrack Of Our Lives”. Since then Elin Piel and Fredrik Petterson has taken their time to really emerge as a band. The playfulness heard on their debut album is still there, but the band has sharpened their knives and taken on a more radical point of view. The messages are more a smack in the face than a slap at the wrist. Still there are some tracks that completely hit you in the heart with stories of love and longing. Even though the production is bigger than on the previous album “Suburban Island”, you can still hear the trade marked guitar of Fredrik Petterson and the intriguing vocals of Elin Piel. The tracks build off each other and create a weave of stories about injustice, sadness, love, struggle and hope. Elin and Fredrik mix complete hopelessness with utter joy. This is one of the bands fortes.
If PJ Harvey and The Cave Singers had a love child, it would probably sound like Preacher and Bear.
Beautiful double LP!
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Band:PETER WILLIAMS
Album:POETRY IN MOTION
Label:LONE RIDER
Format:CD
Genre:Rock And Roll/Psychobilly
Ever popular guitarist Peter Williams plays his personal jukebox favourites from the 50’s and 60’s.
A guitar instrumental CD that will be reviewed in 60’s magazines including Pipeline and The Beat.
26 track cd as heard on oldies radio and internet stations.
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Band:SUDDENFLAMES
Album:DEATH MIGHT BE LATE
Label:UNICORN DIGITAL
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
SuddenFlames is a Heavy Metal/Power Metal band from Quebec City in Canada. The sound of SuddenFlames is influenced by traditional Power Metal bands like Gamma Ray, Helloween and Hammerfall. The members of the band are big fans of Old school Metal like Iron Maiden and Judas Priest and one can hear it. Melodies and musical structure are typically European but with a strong American thrash sound.
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Band:NINTH STATE
Album:FINDING NINE
Label:UNICORN DIGITAL
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
"The "Ninth State" refers to a state of consciousness that is built upon the foundation of pleasure, For some it may be sex, for some it may be a substance that makes them feel a special way, for us it's the music. As a group, we definitely get off on creating and performing together. We sincerely believe that there is a ninth state, come and join us in it..."
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Band:DENOUNCEMENT PYRE
Album:ALMIGHTY ARCANUM
Label:Hells Headbangers
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
After 10 years of underground darkness, DENOUNCEMENT PYRE continue their ascent up the throne of Luciferian supremacy with Almighty Arcanum. The Aussie veterans' second full-length after their lauded World Cremation debut, DENOUNCEMENT PYRE's Almighty Arcanum is a veritable abyss of fiery, blackened death metal, but now sharper and more focused than ever. Total Darkness. Total Death. The unification of all that was, is, and will be: await Almighty Arcanum...
Features members of Nocturnal Graves
Full color cover painting by Andrei Bouzikov (Municipal Waste, High on Fire) with a real value for money 20 page booklet featuring a killer layout & artwork for each track
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Band:DELIA
Album:RECOLLECTION
Label:Ravenheart
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
Delia fronted by Anastasia Sverkunova is a band from Ukraine and play a symphonic style of metal not too dissimilar to Within Temptation and Evanescence, although Delia has developed a style of their own. ‘Recollection’ was recorded at Ukrainian recording studio “Blacklight” in two versions: Ukrainian & English, and Ravenheart Music will be releasing the English version.
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Band:INFINITE HORIZON
Album:THE CONSPIRACY OF LOVE
Label:Ravenheart
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
Fed up with the local New Jersey music scene Stepehn Megna, decided to plough his own furrow and create his own vision of European Symphonic Gothic metal, a striking departure from the Bon Jovi wannabes that you would expect to find in the Garden State. The theme of this album is based on “the superficiality of love, and the anguish it brings, taking the listener on a journey of heartache and betrayal.
Nightwish,Within Temptation,Epica fans take note!
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Band:TATIANAS NIOVI
Album:BREATH OF LIFE
Label:Ravenheart
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
Tatiana Manolidou from Greece has composed music for the Greek theatre and TV, as well performing many concerts in Greece and Cyprus. In 2008-2009 she recorded the vocals for the album ''Matricide'' by the prog rock band La Tulipe Noire. Tatiana composed the music for this, her new music collection titled Tatiana’s NIOVI ''Breath of light''. Most of the lyrics are written by Cindy L Spear (Iona, Karnataka, Colin Mold), and part of the production was made by Bob Katsionis ( Firewind).
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Band:UNDER HEAVEN
Album:WHAT LIES BETWEEN
Label:Ravenheart
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
Under Heaven is a Canadian duo comprising Matthew Binks, who takes care of all the music, and the delectable Tammy Everett, whose voice lies somewhere between Sarah Brightman and Enya. Listening to this CD it will be of no surprise to learn that Matthew normally writes and scores for films and TV, with the music being a blend of Clannad and Tarja, rich in Celtic imagery and orchestral lushness, but with a metal foundation.
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Band:MIKE SCOTT
Album:FIESTA DE LOS MUERTOS
Label:AAAHH REAL RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:Punk / Emo
Second solo album from singer-songwriter Mike Scott, formerly of UK punks Phinius Gage (and also currently playing in South London hardcore band Lay it on the Line). Mike plays somewhat downbeat acoustic music, reminiscent of the likes of Tom Waits and Bob Dylan; whilst retaining his punk rock anger. Featuring guest spots from Joe Tilston (Random Hand), Ren Aldridge (Feralus) and others.
Album partially funded via crowd-sourcing, and the funders have their names listed in the album's liner notes.
Initial pressing limited to just 100 units - The album comes on vinyl-effect CDs in a full colour digipack sleeve.
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Band:DROPOUT DAN
Album:FOREVER INSTEAD
Label:ANCHOR MUSIC
Format:CD
Genre:Folk
For fans of Bon Iver and Frank Turner.
Toured the UK throughout 2012 supporting the liks of Jim Lockey & The Solemn Sun, Dave McPherson and Oxygen Theif with a headline main support set at Cambridge’s prestigious Strawberry Fair festival in the summer (2012).
Tour booked alongside B Sydes around the UK for February 2013
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Band:FUK
Album:NEW WAVE OF BRITISH PUNK ROCK
Label:PHR RECORDS
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
New band of Gabba from Chaos UK. This is their second full length album and the first one released on vinyl. Their previous recordings (album and EPs) were released by Japanese labels where the band is very popular. Their music style is very similar to the old Chaos UK recordings and is essential for all UK '82 fans.
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Band:MR SHIRAZ
Album:MR SHIRAZ
Label:mr shiraz records
Format:CD
Genre:Alt Rock
The long awaited second album from UK hybrid rockers Mr Shiraz. After being away rocking the free world Mr Shiraz return with a slim downed line-up and massive new sound that has been tearing down walls around the UK and Europe
. "Fun loving, booze guzzling, hotel trashing......The Mr Shiraz juggernaut brings the finest in rock, funk, metal and punk!" - Metal Hammer
"Let's be honest, Mr Shiraz are pretty much the UK's equivalent to Faith No More. Shiraz take no prisoners and prove themselves to be a band that should be a lot bigger than they are! HTF APPROVE!!" - Hit The Floor Magazine
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Band:THE SAWYER FAMILY
Album:THE BURNING TIMES
Label:WASTED STATE
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
Drawing inspiration from the gloomy climate of the Pacific Northwest, The Sawyer Family have played over 600 shows in nearly every state since 2009, all the while appealing to punk, rock, metal and roots rock fans alike.
Constantly refining their ever evolving, sometimes unpredictable song writing, The Sawyer Family's refusal to be pigeon-holed has become their trademark and in many ways what their fans have come to expect from them. Songs marked with huge dynamic shifts, sweeping vocal melodies and duelling guitars often draw comparisons to Queens of the Stone Age, Corrosion of Conformity and early Metallica. While these are all influences, singularly unique elements like distorted bass violin solos and bowed classical passages distinguish them even from these entities.
The Sawyer Family is currently preparing for their first European Tour in which they intend to expand their growing fan base of people yearning for something truly unique.
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Band:THREE BLIND MICE
Album:EARLY MORNING SCUM
Label:PALE MUSIC INTERNATIONAL
Format:CD
Genre:Alt Rock
Early Morning Scum was recorded in December 2011, during a week of hard work in the cold Berlin winter. The band choose the Schaltraum Aufnahmestudio at the Funkhaus, the former headquarters of the GDR's radio located in an industrial area by the Spree river which used to be part of East Berlin. This location provided the perfect backdrop for the 12 songs, which live on the natural reverb of the recording room and capture the haunting beauty of the half deserted building with its never ending corridors. Loud, dark, swampy, the album could be described in several ways. The initial sonic explosion of spacey guitars of 'Asphalt Jungle' make way to retro sounds -- in the style of Link Wray -- and Hammond organs both sensual and mournful, of 'Bug Under Glass' and 'Devastation Town'. A fascination for dark Americana and Southern Gothic themes transpires from 'Dust Devil' and 'Little Animals', with their desert landscapes. Then again violent, hard-boiled fiction sets the stage for the black’n’roll of 'Three Storey Girl'. 'Knuckles' instead pays tribute to the time that the band spent touring with Lydia Lunch and Gallon Drunk's Big Sexy Noise. The sky of Early Morning Scum brightens up with 'Slow Motion', a reverb drenched shoegaze jewel, and it turns grey again with the amphetaminic 'Golden Spiral Kill'. Eventually, the storm breaks out with the chaotic madness of 'Half Seas Over'. The album ends with the twisted gospel-like song 'Jesus', a long, intimate country song. Recorded by Tom Schwoll, of Jingo de Lunch fame, the album features the Australian born, Berlin based, Chris Hughes (Hugo Race, Fatal Shore, These Immortal Souls) on drums and percussions. On a deep level, Early Morning Scum is definitely a Berlin influenced album, although most lyrics draw inspiration from American novelists such as Bunker, McCarthy and Mailer.
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Band:FLEISCHDOLLS
Album:SO GEHT ES JEDOCH NICHT
Label:PALE MUSIC INTERNATIONAL
Format:CD
Genre:Dance/Electronica
Keep pushin’ them buttons – Fleischdolls come from a headstrong future. But they never forget the past: At a party with the Goldenen Zitronen, DAF, Sigue Sigue Sputnik and distorted synths they’d pretty much enjoy themselves.
According to Berlin-based Fleischdolls mastermind Lukas „mntmn“ Hartmann, the techno-punk-no-wave work’s romantic highlight is the hookline of the song „Lass uns alles zerstören“, which emphasizes Fleischdolls' desire for demolition: „Komm doch mit, und lass uns alles zerstören!“ („Come with us, and let's destroy everything!“) For Adrian „the kaiser“ Kaiser, the band’s Hamburg-based vocalist, for futuristic guitarist Sebastian „hypo“ Burkhart and for the world’s tightest synth bassist Daniel „ledentist“ Zahn, denying the status quo is the main theme of life. There are many possibilities – but this is not how it works. The system has to be hacked and rebuilt: less heteronormativity, less surveillance, less fear of the world, more good haircuts, bass and internet. That kind of future is what the Fleischdolls stand for – like a brand name.
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Band:AJ HOLMES AND THE HACKNEY EMPIRE
Album:WEDDING
Label:MORINGA MUSIC
Format:CD
Genre:world/new age
Wedding is the electrifying new release from AJ Holmes and The Hackney Empire, a band who have been causing musical mayhem wherever they go. Based in the East End, and drawing inspiration from the cultural melting pot that is London, AJ Holmes and The Hackney Empire is a potent brew of one part Afro-pop, one part soukous, a dash of calypso flair, topped off with a soupçon of Pearly Queen. This eclectic mix has produced a fresh, innovative and raucous sound that bursts out of the speakers and wraps itself around your body.
Wedding is the debut album for AJ Holmes and the Hackney Empire, but word has already been spreading like wildfire. Having pricked the ears of white-hot electro producer duo Radioclit (M.I.A, The Very Best, Amadou & Mariam) to become their resident house band at their Secousse club, they released their debut single 'Fraudian Slip' in 2011, (also produced by Radioclit) to critical acclaim. Even Billy Bragg wants to join the melee; keep an eye out his cameo in their forthcoming new video A13 Trunk Road To The Sea (bonus track on Wedding)
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Band:MAT3R DOLOROSA
Album:THINK ABOUT YOUR FUTURE NOW
Label:JARRING EFFECTS
Format:CD
Genre:Dance/Electronica
Trained guitarist and graphic designer, Tristan aka Mat3r Dolorosa presents his first album solo. This is the result of a long introspective work. He begins to move away from his young love for the guitar considered as a tool, melody, inspired by the music of Kid A (Radiohead), the Fragile (NIN), concerts of Bjork, Massive Attack, or DJ Krush. He takes part in collectives as Rockwave or Jarring Effects where he is apprehending his desires, his ideas. Self-taught, he begins to sample his own guitar and then drum’s compositions, to grind the sound which ensues from it to shape the foundations of a music which imagines itself, which looks. Sound history are running together, with the sensibility as key word.
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Band:AZRATH-11
Album:OV TENTACLES AND SPIRALS
Label:PUNISHMENT 18
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
Azrath-11 rise to fame in the underground Metal scene started in March 2007 when the band was founded by the visionary Asmodeus Draco Dvx (Naer Mataron, Handful of Hate, Absentia Lunae) and Absu Telal Daghon (Nuclear Aggressor, Eeri Sin). Right from day one Azrath-11’s powerful combination of Death Metal and obscure Black Metal gave the band an epical and avantgardistic touch.
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Band:VERMIN
Album:PLUNGE INTO OBLIVION
Label:PUNISHMENT 18
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
In late 1991 Mathias Adamsson, Moses Shtieh, Jimmy Sjöqvist and Johan Svensson formed the Swedish band Vermin. Vermin released their first 7 track demo in March 1992 and the response was very good. One track from that demo was featured on a compilation CD called Requiem – Morbid Symphonies of Death. Late 1992 the band recorded their now legendary demo “Life is Pain”, and one track from that demo ended up on the Swedish magazine Close-Up compilation CD, Extreme Close Up Vol 1. The band followed up their underground success and quickly recorded a 7 track demo called “Scum of the Earth”. The demo was printed in 1000 copies and was sold out immediately. The band was compared to other Swedish Death Metal acts like Entombed, Dismember, Grave and Unleashed. The new Swedish label Chaos records was so impressed that the band was signed and Vermin’s three demos was in July 1994 released as the CD “Obedience to Insanity”. Shortly after the release of the CD Johan left the band but was quickly replaced by David Melin. The sales of “Obedience to Insanity” was very good so the label and the band decided that it was time for a new CD. The band entered the legendary Sunlight studio in the autumn of 1994 with Fred Estby (Dismember) and Tomas Skogsberg behind the desk. The result “Plunge Into Oblivion” is a compact sounding metal production which fulfills all technical and lyrical expectations of the band. 2013 REISSUE.
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Band:ANGER AS ART
Album:HUBRIS INC
Label:OSM Records
Format:CD
Genre:Thrash/Crossover Metal
Hubris, Inc. The 4th full length album from Los Angeles' thrashers Anger As Art. Explosive riffs, earth shattering drums, and songs that stick in your head for days. In a world where leaders don't lead, where fools are worshiped, where your voice isn't heard... isn't it time to rise as one in anger and give this world the finger??? Welcome to Anger As Art. Only on Old School Metal Records.
Guest appearances by Timothy Gaines (Stryper) Betsy Bitch (Bitch), Jim Durkin (Dark Angel), Mark Caro (Abattoir) and Steve Nelson (Evil Dead).
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Band:MONGREL
Album:RECLAMATION
Label:THC
Format:CD
Genre:Alt Rock
Mongrel is an aggressive female fronted punk-rock-metal band who has played and/or toured with bands such as the Misfits, Fear, Sepultura, Otep, Gwar, Korn, Blitzkid, Trashlight Vision, Hed(pe), Wednesday13, Mindless Self Indulgence, Prong, Piggy D (Rob Zombie), Shadows Fall, God Forbid, American Head Charge, Vision of Disorder, etc “Reclamation” is already receiving “potential album of the year” level reviews before its release in the US.
For Fans of: Misfits, Guns N’ Roses, Otep, Distillers, old Metallica, Motorhead...
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Band:STRIKE
Album:BACK IN FLAMES
Label:JOLLY ROGER
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
LP contains the self titled album of Italian Strike, originally released in 1981, plus 4 bonus tracks, all remastered. "Strike" is the first italian HM album ever , before Vanadium and Vanexa! The story of all Italian HM scene started here!
For fans of NWOBHM, Saxon, Girlschool, Twisted Sister and the early Italian HM scene (Strana Officina, Vanadium, Vanexa…)
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Band:I COMPAGNI DI BAAL
Album:I C D B
Label:JOLLY ROGER
Format:LP
Genre:Metal
Debut album for this young band coming from Ancona (Italy), an exciting mix between hard, heavy metal, prog and doom!
RIYL - Black Sabbath, Rush, I Corvi, Banco del Mutuo Soccorso, Fiaba, Malombra, Il Segno del Comando, Ulver, Mastodon, Uriah Heep, Strana Officina etc
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Band:FACE OFF
Album:THE COLOUR OF RAIN
Label:MAPLE METAL
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
European female-fronted metal band FACE OFF storm out of the gates with their debut album “The Colour of Rain”.
RIYL – Evanescence, Lacuna Coil, Nightwish, Within Temptation
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Band:ABSOLUTE PRIORITY
Album:HUNTER
Label:Masterpiece Distr
Format:CD
Genre:Prog Rock
"Hunter" is 11 tracks of pure Progressive metal, collected in a awesome concept album wich develops in a cinematic style. A modern reading of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", supported by tracks recalling the style of bands like: Queensryche, Dream Theater; Fates Warning etc...
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Band:EARTHCRY
Album:WHERE THE ROAD LEADS
Label:Masterpiece Distr
Format:CD
Genre:Prog Rock
Based on prog and power metal influences (Ayreon, Dream Theater, Angra, Symphony X), cinematic OSTs and electronic music (Vangelis, Jean Michelle Jarre, Mike Oldfield), it melts these different styles to create something very solid and modern. "When the Road Leads".
A concept album with a great group of guest singers: Zak Stevens, Oliver Hartmann, Roberto Tiranti, Damian Wilson, for fans of Ayreon, Dream Theater, Angra, Symphony X...
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Band:SILVER TEARS
Album:REBIRTH
Label:Masterpiece Distr
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
SILVER TEARS is an Italian prog-death metal band, formed in 2003. In 2009 the band started writing its first studio album, "Rebirth". ‘Rebirth’ is an awesome 9 tracks of experimental Prog Death metal with many elements like folk and gothicROCK
RIYL Dark Tranquillity, In Flames etc
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Band:STRIKEMASTER
Album:MAJESTIC STRIKE
Label:METALHIT.COM
Format:CD
Genre:Thrash/Crossover Metal
Mexico’s STRIKE MASTER return with another blazing assault of razor-edged thrash metal! Real thrash, born from real aggression observed daily in their homeland. Catchy and memorable songs to make you bang your head! Presented as a fine 6- panel Ecowallet with illustrations by Mark Riddick!
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Band:GRUESOME STUFF RELISH
Album:SEMPITERNAL DEATH GRIND
Label:FDA REKOTZ
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
There is an abundance of (early) CARCASS worshiping bands around the globe, but there are three that posses the same old, rotten spirit and the same musically quality like the UK cult band. General Surgery, Haemorrhage and the Spanish gore-hounds known as GRUESOME STUFF RELISH. On previous releases the band showed us the direction straight to the crypt to your most horrible nightmares with a stunningly intense brand of classic Death Metal and gory Grindcore. After two full length albums and various split releases it's time for album number three - Sempiternal Death Grind. This is the most intense and creepy material the band has written to date.
For fans of CARCASS, GENERAL SURGERY, HAEMORRHAGE
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Band:CHAPEL OF DISEASE
Album:SUMMONING BLACK GODS
Label:FDA REKOTZ
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
CHAPEL OF DISEASE from Cologne/Germany presents 8 malodorous new tracks on their long awaited debut album "Summoning Black Gods". Creeping catchy Death Metal with a authentic sick and fat soundwall and a really putrid voice.
For fans of DEATH, PESTILENCE, MORGOTH, ASPHYX
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Band:SULPHUR AEON
Album:SWALLOWED BY THE OCEANS TIDE
Label:FDA REKOTZ
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
With their widely-praised 2011 demo, Sulphur Psalms, and the 2-song EP, Deep Down They Sleep, the German slaughter brigade hammered a sign in the international death metal scene. Be prepared for 11 tracks of pure classic brutal but melodic death metal carnage in the vein of DISSECTION, CHARON, HATESPAWN and BEHEMOTH.
For fans of BEHEMOTH, DISSECTION...
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Band:UNBURIED
Album:MURDER 101
Label:SELFMADEGOD
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
Virginia-based trio UNBURIED break the silence with their long awaited second full-length, "Murder 101". The 11-song album showcases a brutal helping of hate-filled death metal / gory grind. Fast blasts with bone-breaking grooves. True old school underground music, catchy nasty and raw in sound. No trends, no compromises, just straight forward face-shredding death metal from the States! UNBURIED is: Matt Pike, Mark Riddick (FETID ZOMBIE, MACABRA, GRAVE WAX) and Brian Forman (FETID ZOMBIE, GRAVE WAX). Artwork and layout has been drawn by none other than Mark Riddick himself so you know what to expect.
For fans of OBITUARY, REPULSION, GRAVE, early CANNIBAL CORPSE!
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Band:PROPHECY OF DOOM
Album:TOTAL MIND WAR
Label:SELFMADEGOD
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
Selfmadegod are proud to release Prophecy of Doom, one of the bands that truly broke the barriers between the hardcore scene, death metal and grindcore from the late 80's. One of the heaviest and most destructive bands coming from the UK, always loyal to their punk attitude and with a strong concern on lyrics. After a demo in 1988, they have released "Calculated Mind Rape" 7"EP in 1989, then in 1990 the output on Peaceville the band is mostly known for, "Acknowledge the Confusion Master" LP (also released as a split CD with AXEGRINDER), in the same year they released live 7"EP ("Until the Again") and the "Peel Sessions" 12". After the "Matrix" CD in 1992 (on Metalcore), their last output was the 3-song demo "Ego Death Grind" in 1996. This CD compiles an unreleased radio session from 1991 plus the complete "Ego Death Grind" demo 1996. Now you have a chance to complete your POD discography with some of their best stuff ever.
A must have for fans of UK death metal and grindcore : AXEGRINDER, DEVIATED INSTINCT, HELLBASTARD, AMEBIX, ANTISECT...
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Band:MEGASCAVENGER
Album:DESCENT OF YUGGOTH
Label:SELFMADEGOD
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
After releasing "Songs Of Flesh (Part I) EP early 2012 inexhaustible Swedish maniac Rogga Johansson (Paganizer, Ribspreader, Demiurg, The Grotesquery, Bone Gnawer, Revolting and more) strikes back with the debut album of his most recent band - MEGASCAVENGER. "Descent Of Yuggoth" consists of nine heavy, crushing and murky death metal songs that will definitely appeal to all fans of Rogga's music and Scandinavian metal! More than that Johansson spews out his death metal dreams by recruiting the talents of some legendary death metal figureheads including guest vocals by Dan Swano (EDGE OF SANITY, BLOODBATH), Marc Grewe (MORGOTH, INSIDIOUS DISEASE), Jörgen Sandström (ex- GRAVE, KRUX, TORTURE DIVISION) and Paul Speckmann (MASTER, DEATH STRIKE, ABOMINATION) as well as guest solos by Patrick Mameli (PESTILENCE), Jonas Lindblood (PUTERAEON), Eric Daniels (ASPHYX, SOULBURN).
Prepare for heavy dose of dark death metal in the Swedish vein!
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Band:CRANIOTOMY
Album:SUPPLY OF FLESH CAME JUST IN TIME
Label:AMPUTATED VEIN
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
From Slovakia central Europe, blasting brutal death metal outfit Craniotomy unleashes their fourth album with their old pigs singer Pygo. This promised deeds consist of eight fucking brutal pieces of flesh entitled "Supply of flesh came just in time" is sure to torture your auditory meatus with 30min of slamming elements, butchering arts and guitars flageolets typical of Craniotomy. For fans of Abominable Putridity, Vile, Deeds of Flesh, Disgorge and Dyscarnate
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Band:URETHRAL DEFECATION
Album:HIGH HUMAN FEELINGS
Label:AMPUTATED VEIN
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
New wave Slamming Brutal Death of Siberia! Music, like Bacillus anthracis, amaze you after listening to the first track. Leechers Guitar riffs will fill your body with the energy that you can not cope. Accompanied with a powerful vocals pigs, your body and mind will rot from the inside. Your imagination will appreciate text album. The lyrics is built on the hidden desires of man, which is in every ... But not everyone is ready to recognize them in yourself. One more surprise awaits you inside the box with the disc. For fans of "new" with a "taste" of the old ;) From Russia with Love.
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Band:DISGRASEED
Album:FLESH MARKET
Label:AMPUTATED VEIN
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
DISGRASEED brutal death metal band from France, turn up in force with their vicious, debut full length “Flesh Market” bringing a new and fresh approach to the Death Metal scene. This album consists of 9 insane tracks with memorable and catchy riffs, devastating blast beats and a wide range of guttural vocals. The “Flesh Market” album will sink you into the perversion of humanity !!! Dirty and nasty cover artwork and CD packaging design made by J.L Rey (Wormed) from Phlegeton Art Studio.
For fans of Krisiun, Dying Fetus, Severe Torture, Kraanium, Goratory and more !
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Band:ANTESTOR
Album:OMEN
Label:Bombworks
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
Hailing from Norway, Christian black metal's most prolific and infamous band returns with the 2012 release of Omen, a beautifully anti-blasphemous epic masterpiece! Formed in 1990 under the name Crush Evil, Antestor means "testify" or "call to witness" in Latin. During the 1990s they received serious death threats from black metal titans Euronymous, Varg Vikernes and Faust. Persecution only intensified their efforts, and the band is credited for starting the northern European Christian extreme metal scene. In fact, in an almost ironic twist of fate, Jan Axel Blomberg (better known as Hellhammer, the drummer for Mayhem) was Antestor's session drummer on two releases. The band's brand of black/doom metal carried such a reputation that Antestor is the only Christian band to have an album released by Cacophonous Records, home to bands such as Dimmu Borgir, Sigh, and Cradle of Filth. The masters of skull crushing metal riffs have blown our minds with each successive release for 22 years. After seven years in the making, prepare for the most insane, the most creative, and the most devastatingly gorgeous extreme metal album of the band's illustrious career.
For fans of Dimmu Borgir, Behemoth, A Hill To Die Upon, and Septic Flesh!
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Band:NUDE
Album:PLASTIC PLANET
Label:MY KINGDOM MUSIC
Format:CD
Genre:Alt Rock
"Plastic Planet" is a great mix of English New Wave, modern Indie Rock and razor-sharp guitarplay in the Gothic Metal style.
Imagine a wonderful marriage between the decadent music of NEW ORDER and JOY DIVISION, THE CULT’s music energy, SISTER OF MERCY’s dark sound, HIM’s diabolical charm and the ethereal vein of PARADISE LOST’s “Host”… this is the sound of “Plastic Planet” and NUDE make it catchy as hell and damn heavy too when need be.
Featuring HEIMDALL’s and UNDERTAKERS’ members
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Band:DPERD
Album:KORE
Label:MY KINGDOM MUSIC
Format:CD
Genre:Dark Wave/Goth
DPERD are Carlo Disimone and Valeria Buono and at the beginning of the new millennium formed DPERD. The first releases are a selfproduced cd-r "2003" and the CD "3non". These works received critical acclaim and praise in international media. After these great results DPERD begin to work hard on their new album, "Regalerò Il Mio Tempo" ("I'll Give My Time"), that permits them to ink a deal with My Kingdom Music which releases the CD on February 2008. Encouraged by this the band works on new music and the result is “Io Sono Un Errore” (in english: “I’m A Mistake”), where the Dark Wave is pushed further to discover new emotions. The album was released on April 2010. Continuing their path towards the analysis of their inner world, DPERD begin to work on their new album called “Kore”, like the greek name of the goddess Persephone, personification of the rebirth. With it the duo tries to explore their most intimate essence and the result is a music more melancholic than in the past, but with an ardent desire to climb up the dark.
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Band:APOLOKIA
Album:KATHAARIAN VORTEX
Label:MY KINGDOM MUSIC
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
The Black Metal horde APOLOKIA was forged in 1994 by Blackfrost. The first steps of the band were their demo "Frozen Evokation" (1995) and "Fields of Hatefrost" (1997) which sees Verminaard in the line-up and confirms APOLOKIA as the most controversial horde ever forged in Italy. A lots of labels became interested in Apolokia, but the band never found interest in those deals and disgusted by the modern black metal scene, Blackfrost and Verminaard disappeared in the northern side of Europe, putting the band on ice. The Italic Black Metal cult was born. After seven years, in 2007, Blackfrost and Verminaard decided to give new life to Apolokia and the first result was the MCD "Immota Satani Manet", featuring as special guest Malignancy from the cult italic Black Metal band Dungeon. In 2011 the band signed a record deal with the label My Kingdom Music for the release of their long awaited debut album “Kathaarian Vortex” that will be released in February 2013.
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Band:CREST OF DARKNESS
Album:IN THE PRESENCE OF DEATH
Label:MY KINGDOM MUSIC
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
CREST OF DARKNESS was conceived in the mid-nineties when Ingar Amlien’s former band Conception was still at its peak. During the early years COD release 4 albums (“Quench My Thirst”, “Sinister Scenario”, “The Ogress”, “Project Regeneration”) breaking the borders between Black, Gothic and Death Metal. In 2003 they ink a deal with My Kingdom Music and release the devastating and obscure “Evil Knows Evil”, a sinister piece of music followed by the definitive consecration in 2007 with a dark and brutal piece of Extreme Metal “Give Us The Power To Do Your Evil”. Garnering great reviews from both press and fans, Ingar decides to launch a new chapter in C.O.D’s history and creates a colossal new masterpiece of extreme and powerful Black Metal. The result is “IN THE PRESENCE OF DEATH”, a deliriously dark and magnificent work.
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Band:EXECUTION
Album:SWORN TO THE EVIL / DISMANTLE THE CROSS
Label:METALHIT.COM
Format:CD
Genre:Thrash/Crossover Metal
Pure raging raw speed thrash from California!
RIYL old - Seplutura , Coroner etc
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Band:HELLIGE
Album:HELLIGE
Label:METALHIT.COM
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
While the black and doom scenes continue to churn out redundant garbage at a saturated and consistent pace, two obscure Argentinians are composing the masterpiece of HELLIGE’s debut self-titled album. Indulging this album is like entering a sacred space that has not yet been travelled where doom and black metal are concerned. The sound is torturous and avantgarde, yet coherent enough to keep you peaking around the next corner for a musical-spiritual experience. Utterly dark, oppressive and melancholic. For fans of old Septic Flesh meets Ved Buens Ende. Presented as a fine digipak CD.
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Band:NECROVEN
Album:PERPETUAL BLASPHEMIES
Label:METALHIT.COM
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
Six tracks of underground brutal and despicable death metal from Italy. No clean production or boring garbage…just raw and heated fury from the underground! “Perpetual Blasphemies” features killer cover art by Mark Riddick, presented on a 6-panel Ecowallet CD format.
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Band:MOONROT
Album:UNDER THE ANCIENT OAK
Label:METALHIT.COM
Format:CD
Genre:FOLK METAL
More than a decade in the making, MOONROOT’s debut comprises years of recordings that took place periodically throughout their career. Born before the large folk metal trend, MOONROOT was in pursuit of capturing the old and blending it with the new. Featuring members of the esteemed US medieval ensemble, THE SOIL BLEEDS BLACK and the soprano voice of Dawn Desiree’ of RAIN FELL WITHIN, MOONROOT’s debut is a quality showcase of melodic and catchy tracks that will take the listener on an adventure through the ancient past. The use of authentic period instruments coupled with modern ones, brings powerful character to the album. The title track features a guest vocal appearance from Alison O’Donnell of MELLOW CANDLE, one of the most respected early 70′s prog-folk bands of its time. Presented as an Ecowallet CD with cover artwork by Kris Verwimp, “Under the Ancient Oak” offers the perfect blend of folk metal, rock and 70′s prog inspiration!
Guest vocals by Alison O’Donnell of cult UK 70’s folk-prog Mellow Candle fame
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Band:MORBID CARNAGE
Album:MERCILESS CARNAGE
Label:METALHIT.COM
Format:CD
Genre:Thrash/Crossover Metal
The sophomore follow-up after their debut album on Pulverised Records, Hungary’s premiere thrash outfit are primed to release “Merciless Conquest” through Metalhit. Prepare to engage an aggressive, powerful assault of raging thrash of the utmost calibre. Well produced and perfectly executed! Presented as a fine Digipak CD with cover art by Costin C.
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Band:TYRANT GOATGALDRAKONA
Album:HORNS IN THE DARK
Label:METALHIT.COM
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
As a follow-up to their EP, “Sign of Moloch,” TYRANT GOATGALDRAKONA return for their debut full-length on Metalhit. “Horns in the Dark” promises a barrage of relentless death metal in the dark vein of CEMETERY URN, FUNEBRARUM, or DISGORGE. Punishing and barbaric death metal…no frills! Presented in a fine 6-panel Ecowallet with artwork by Mark Riddick.
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Band:TEMPLE
Album:STRUCTURES IN CHAOS
Label:NON SERVIAM
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
Brutal high-class Dutch
For fans of Hate Eternal, Immolation etc.
With members of: Destroyer 666, Supreme Pain, Beyond Belief, Deadhead, Sinister.
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Band:IN ARKADIA
Album:EYES OF THE ARCHETYPE
Label:MandO MUSIC
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
After 3 studio albums, 2 video clips and more than 100 gigs in 6 years, IN ARKADIA is back with a new line-up, and a much more modern death metal style, more brutal and efficient than before.
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Band:LYS
Album:GO YOUR OWN WAY
Label:MandO MUSIC
Format:CD
Genre:Alt Rock
French band spotted by Steve Hewitt (Placebo) & Paul Corkett (The Cure).
After a performance at the Printemps de Bourges Festival in 2011 (SFR stage), the young band from Brittany, with its original pop-rock and undeniably captivating, is the first French band spotted by Steve Hewitt (drummer & songwriter in the mutli million selling PLACEBO), who invited the band to be main support of his European tour (Paris, Rennes, Nantes, Berlin, London...).
Thanks to their first hit-single "In My Mind" produced by Olivier Lude (producer of -M-) and mixed by Jeff Dominguez (Cassius), the band has won a first album recording produced by Steve Hewitt himself and mixed by Paul Corkett (producer of the Cure, Placebo, Bjork, Fiction Plane, Nick Cave & many others ...).
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Band:REDLIGHT
Album:ASTRONAUTS
Label:MandO MUSIC
Format:CD
Genre:Alt Rock
RedLight was created in 2007 in Marseille France by Londres, Dapé and Guy.
The band plays a great and fresh mix of Electro-Rock-Hip Hop-Blues.
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Band:KARMA RAGE
Album:SOCIUM
Label:METAL SCRAP
Format:CD
Genre:Thrash/Crossover Metal
Debut full-length album by Ukrainian Thrash Metal band.
For fans of: Pantera, Megadeth, Coroner, Aspid, Nasty Savage, Destruction etc
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Band:LETHARGIA
Album:DIVINE MADNESS
Label:TOTAL METAL
Format:CD
Genre:Dark Wave/Goth
The second full-length album from Ukrainian Dark Metal band, with elements of Doom, Death and Gothic Metal. "Divine Madness" - a new stage in the development of the band as in performance such in recording quality and all material. On this CD you can hear fast rocking moments and weighted funeral parties. Band did not come up with something radically new or go with the times and decided to support founders of dark-, death- and doom-metal. Music supported by thoughtful lyrics in Russian.
For fans of MOONSPELL, MY DYING BRIDE, SEPTIC FLESH, DARK THE SUNS, IN FLAMES, SLUMBER, early ANATHEMA and KATATONIA
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Band:ANDRES THOR
Album:MONOKROM
Label:NORDIC NOTES
Format:CD
Genre:JAZZ/JAZZ ROCK
With elements of jazz, pop, bluegrass and folk music, guitarist Andres Thor’s new album “Mónókróm” sets a new tone in the guitarists repertoire. Featuring 10 originals that blend guitar, piano, dobro, wurlitzer, lap steel, pedal steel, pump organ, celeste, mellotron, double bass, drums and percussion, the result is a broad and appealing soundscape.
An active performer and composer Having three albums as a leader and a variety of collective and sideman projects under his belt, Andres Thor has been an active performer and composer in Iceland where he is considered one of the finest jazz guitarists of his generation. He has performed in Norway, the Netherlands, Spain, Belgium, Luxemburg, Germany and USA with his own groups as well as in collaborative projects with musicians from Iceland, Norway, Spain, Denmark and the Netherlands.
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