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Band:THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Album:KUDOS TO YOU!
Label:BURNSIDE
Format:CD
Genre:Rock
2014 brings Kudos To You!, the 7th full length studio album from Seattle’s The Presidents Of The United States Of America. Since 1994, PUSA has been spreading their skewed and joyous brand of pop to audiences the world over. PUSA has no idea where this album came from.
As “full-time part-timers”, PUSA had thought themselves to be “post album”, enjoying a relaxed and limited touring schedule combined with liberal hammock time. When they booked two days with their longtime producer and FOH engineer MARTIN FEVEYEAR last October there were no expectations, and no material other than Singer Chris Ballew’s notebook. WHOOPS things got out of hand, and a month later Kudos To You! was tracked, necessitating changing their annual PUSAFEST shows in Portland and Seattle to record-release shows. Zing!
Kudos To You! is a happy mix of old, new, and brand spanking new, that should hit right at the soft tissue of PUSA fans old and new. Ok, mostly old, but still it’s a fun listen and should eventually be purchased by everyone on the planet.
UK Tour : 2/23/14 Brighton, East Sussex Concorde 2 2/24/14 Liverpool East Village Arts Club 2/25/14 Newcastle O2 Academy 2/27/14 Leeds O2 Academy Leeds 2/28/14 Nottingham Rock City 3/1/14 London O2 Shepherds Bush Empire
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Band:THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Album:TEN YEARS SUPER BONUS SPECIAL ANNIVERSARY EDITION
Label:BURNSIDE
Format:CD
Genre:Rock
Since 1994, The Presidents Of The United States Of America have been spreading their skewed and joyous brand of pop to audiences the world over. They are to date the only band to emerge from Seattle’s criminally under-exposed music scene. They are musical geniuses, and often write their own press releases. They have lost multiple Grammies.
Rescued from a heavily guarded time capsule bunker fortress on Mount Rainier, here is the last remaining cache of The Presidents Of The United States Of America’s eponymous debut in the rare TEN YEAR SUPER BONUS SPECIAL ANNIVERSARY EDITION. This record has sold four million-ish copies worldwide, and features the mega-hits LUMP, PEACHES, and KITTY and has a handsome sticker on the shrink-wrap telling you as much. There are thirteen bonus tracks not on the original, including outtakes from the sessions, demo versions, and recorded versions of live staples. As if that weren’t enough, there is also a DVD enclosed with eight (8!) videos and band commentary. Priced as a regular cd, this is a phenomenal…nay, a generational bargain and should cause widespread panic at record shops worldwide...
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Band:MYSTERY
Album:UNVEIL THE MYSTERY 2007-2012
Label:UNICORN DIGITAL
Format:CD
Genre:Prog Rock
Canadian act MYSTERY are one of contemporary Progressive Rock's biggest bands, and last year's "The World Is A Game" album firmly cemented their reputation as one of the natural heirs to the legacy of genre legends such as Yes and Rush.
This is the Volume 2 compilation following At The Dawn of a New Millennium UNCR-5085 but this time featuring songs from the Benoit David Era recorded between 2007 and 2012.
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Band:AVICHI
Album:CATHARSIS ABSOLUTE
Label:Profound Lore
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
AVICHI is the sole vision of black metal multi-instrumentalist Andrew Markuszewski (aka Aamonael), who was an initial founding member of popular and notorious U.S. black metal act Nachtmystium, a band in which Markuszewski has made several appearances in through Nachtmystium’s existence. Markuszewski also is one of the main musicians in his other main band, namely blackened sludge metal abomination Lord Mantis.
But AVICHI is Markuszewski’s outlet to show that he is one of America’s underground visionaries in its black metal scene. Forming in 2006 and releasing the debut album “The Divine Tragedy” only showed promise at what AVICHI had to offer. But it wasn’t until AVICHI’s Profound Lore debut, “The Devil’s Fractal” where awareness would build even more, awareness in which will go that much further with the new AVICHI album “Catharsis Absolute” in solidifying AVICHI as one of the premiere U.S. black metal bands today.
“Catharsis Absolute” sees AVICHI create a wholly new expression of virulent yet enlightening sophisticated black metal and sees Markuszewski create his most accomplished musical work to date.
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Band:ARTIFICIAL BRAIN
Album:LABYRINTH CONSTELLATION
Label:Profound Lore
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
NY based death metal band ARTIFICIAL BRAIN was conceived in 2011 by Revocation guitarist Dan Gargiulo and ex-Biolich vocalist Will Smith (Biolich, coincidentally being the former band where several members would end up forming CASTEVET upon Biolich’s break-up). After conceiving a demo and a two-song EP, ARTIFICIAL BRAIN have unleashed their devastating debut album “Labyrinth Constellation”, and album which shall be a platform for such a band to be recognized amongst the elite amongst one faction of the U.S. death metal scene.
Like past bands such as Nocturnus, ARTIFICIAL BRAIN bring a sci-fi element into their brand of twisted guttural death metal. More or less thematically and aesthetically (as witnessed on their stunning album cover painted by Paolo “Madman” Girardi), the sci-fi themes that run rampant throughout ARTIFICIAL BRAIN’s music complement the complex brutality that ARTIFICIAL BRAIN offer with their brand of cosmic dissonant dark death metal.
Overall, “Labyrinth Constellation” (recorded, mixed, and mastered by Colin Marston of Krallice, Gorguts, Dysrhythmia etc. in his Thousand Caves) will serve its purpose with its own unique take on the death metal genre and an album that will fit accordingly alongside the Profound Lore’s twisted death metal contingent with such bands as PORTAL, MITOCHONDRION, GRAVE MIASMA, and ABYSSAL.
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Band:MANTAR
Album:DEATH BY BURNING
Label:SVART
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
February 2014 sees the two piece German monster MANTAR release their debut album on Svart Records. Recorded earlier in 2013 and titled "Death By Burning", the album is a raw, self produced and 100% DIY display of power. The half German, half Turkish band has existed for less than a year and released one limited run 7" - sold out by the time you read this. MANTAR manages to sound heavier than most five piece bands you may know, in spite of the fact that no bass guitar was used on this record. Just drums and guitar set for destruction. Forget about Rock 'n Roll. This will hurt. Flogging beats and blackened melodies meet feedback orgies and doom mayhem. Early Melvins, Motorhead, Darkthrone. You name it. Don't call it sludge though. Everything as black as possible. A soundtrack for the final battle. Ltd digipak CD.
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Band:MANTAR
Album:DEATH BY BURNING - WHITE VINYL
Label:SVART
Format:LP WHITE VINYL
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
February 2014 sees the two piece German monster MANTAR release their debut album on Svart Records. Recorded earlier in 2013 and titled "Death By Burning", the album is a raw, self produced and 100% DIY display of power. The half German, half Turkish band has existed for less than a year and released one limited run 7" - sold out by the time you read this. MANTAR manages to sound heavier than most five piece bands you may know, in spite of the fact that no bass guitar was used on this record. Just drums and guitar set for destruction. Forget about Rock 'n Roll. This will hurt. Flogging beats and blackened melodies meet feedback orgies and doom mayhem. Early Melvins, Motorhead, Darkthrone. You name it. Don't call it sludge though. Everything as black as possible. A soundtrack for the final battle. Limited white gatefold vinyl.
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Band:MANTAR
Album:DEATH BY BURNING - BLACK VINYL
Label:SVART
Format:LP - BLACK VINYL
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
February 2014 sees the two piece German monster MANTAR release their debut album on Svart Records. Recorded earlier in 2013 and titled "Death By Burning", the album is a raw, self produced and 100% DIY display of power. The half German, half Turkish band has existed for less than a year and released one limited run 7" - sold out by the time you read this. MANTAR manages to sound heavier than most five piece bands you may know, in spite of the fact that no bass guitar was used on this record. Just drums and guitar set for destruction. Forget about Rock 'n Roll. This will hurt. Flogging beats and blackened melodies meet feedback orgies and doom mayhem. Early Melvins, Motorhead, Darkthrone. You name it. Don't call it sludge though. Everything as black as possible. A soundtrack for the final battle. Black gatefold vinyl.
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Band:SAMMAL
Album:NO 2
Label:SVART
Format:CD
Genre:Prog Rock
Sammal is that good old friend you've never met. Free from the confines of a scene or part of any genre wave, like the wild moss their name translates to. They have conjured a rare album, quite of its own but nostalgic in only the best way. A band that manages to capture a sense of golden moments in Finnish music, naturally and without pretensions. Vocals that soar confidently and warmly with beautiful lyrics which, though sung entirely in Finnish, are utterly relatable due to the passion in the voice and beauty of the compositions, made more arcane by the sentiments the sound evokes. Lyrics translated inside the booklet are a magic discovery of a band that inspires more about their culture and heart than most well known Finnish bands today. "Sammal began when we were staying at our singer's summer cottage one autumn, listening to classic rock and prog LPs with a barely functioning vintage turntable. We had played in English language bands for some years, and that night we discussed our common interest to write songs in our native language and to follow the freely flowing creative spirit we heard on these records. We wanted to use music and the Finnish language to paint landscapes that are completely alien to modern day stress and musical pigeonholing. Free association and freedom of expression are still at the core of Sammal", comments guitarist/keyboardist Jura Salmi.
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Band:ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK
Album:MUSIC OF ITC
Label:NETWORK
Format:2CD
Genre:TV and MOVIE
The Music of ITC is an exceptionally cool collection of theme and incidental music from series such as Man in a Suitcase, The Protectors, Strange Report, Department S, The Prisoner, Gideons' Way, The Baron, Strange Report, The Persuaders!, The Adventurer and more. Consisting entirely of original as-used-in-the-series recordings (no lacklustre cover versions here!), this set contains some of the best music ever made for television. Celebrated composers Edwin Astley, Albert Elms, Ron Grainer, Robert Farnon, Roger Webb, John Cameron and Wilfred Josephs showcase their skills with a diverse range of musical styles and some legendary theme tunes. Alongside a commemorative booklet it also includes exclusive music suites from The Persuaders!, The Zoo Gang, Return of the Saint and The Baron that are not available elsewhere. This set is an essential purchase for all ITC aficionados and fans of cool soundtracks.
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Band:ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK
Album:THE PRISONER 3CD BOX SET
Label:NETWORK
Format:3CD BOX SET
Genre:TV and MOVIE
Compiled from the original master tapes by Eric Mival (music editor on The Prisoner) this album comprises the vast majority of music specially composed for the series (including a number of unused cues) presented in the order they were recorded. Complete with new notes by Eric which elaborates on his time on The Prisoner and a reproduction of his original music 'bible' giving an alternative and fascinating perspective of the production of the series, this new release is an essential purchase for all ITC aficionados and fans of cool soundtracks. Disc one features the original scores and themes for Arrival by Robert Farnon and Wilfred Josephs together with a selection of Ron Grainer's themes including newly discovered original recordings of his earliest version known as The Age of Elegance. Discs two and three includes completes scores for Degree Absolute, Play In Three Acts, The General, Free For All, Hammer Into Anvil, Face Unknown and Living In Harmony finishing with a few additional music cues for Fall Out.
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Band:ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK
Album:MAN IN A SUITCASE 5CD SET
Label:NETWORK
Format:5CD BOX SET
Genre:TV and MOVIE
A discredited ex-CIA agent reduced to working as a private investigator, McGill travels the world as a ‘gun for hire’. His unorthodox approach and his strong sense of personal integrity often bring him into conflict with both his employers and the authorities, and make him more enemies than friends... Never previously released and compiled from the original master tapes, this five-CD set comprises Ron Grainer, Albert Elms and Freddie Phillips’ celebrated music for Man in a Suitcase, containing over 300 pieces which were specially commissioned for the series. Including extensive liner notes from archive television historian Andrew Pixley, this set is an essential purchase for all ITC aficionados and fans of cool soundtracks.
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Band:ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK
Album:RANDALL AND HOPKIRK DECEASED
Label:NETWORK
Format:3CD BOX SET
Genre:TV and MOVIE
Private detective Jeff Randall assumes he’s hallucinating when he sees the ghost of his dead partner, Marty Hopkirk, but it’s the real deal - Marty is back to help him in his investigations (and keep an eye on his wife along the way). One of ITC’s best-loved series, Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) takes the standard “private eye” formula that ITC was well known for and turned it on its head by making one of the partners a ghost!
Never previously released and compiled from the original master tapes, this three-CD set comprises Edwin Astley’s gorgeous music for Randall and Hoprkirk (Deceased), containing over 200 pieces of music which were especially composed for the series. Including extensive liner notes from archive television historian Andrew Pixley, this set is an essential purchase for all ITC aficionados and fans of cool soundtracks.
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Band:THE DEFILED
Album:GRAVE TIMES.
Label:RAISE THE GAME
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
Since the original release of Grave Times back in February 2011, UK metallers THE DEFIELD have cemented their position as one of the forerunners of the UK scene. Heading out on a headline tour of the UK in February 2014, THE DEFILED reissue Grave Times, off the back of the hype of their Nuclear Blast debut “Daggers”, release August 2013. With incredible support from the UK media eg Metal Hammer, Kerrang!, Rock Sound, Big Cheese, a BBC Radio One live session to air in January and a new video forthcoming, THE DEFILED will maintain a high profile throughout the first half of 2014. DEBUT CD NOW AT MID PRICE!
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Band:ELDER
Album:ELDER LIVE AT ROADBURN 2013
Label:ROADBURN
Format:CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
First live-album by Boston’s Elder, one of USA’s best modern day stoner outfits after two studio albums (Elder and Dead Roots Stirring) en one EP (Spires Burn)
This CD release takes cuts from both studio albums and the EP - Recorded live at the Roadburn Festival 2013...
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Band:ELDER
Album:ELDER LIVE AT ROADBURN LP
Label:ROADBURN
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
First live-album by Boston’s Elder, one of USA’s best modern day stoner outfits after two studio albums (Elder and Dead Roots Stirring) en one EP (Spires Burn)
This release takes cuts from both studio albums and the EP / Recorded live at the Roadburn Festival 2013 / Vinyl includes a cd with the whole concert, vinyl has 4 out of the 6 tracks played.
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Band:BAST
Album:SPECTRES
Label:BURNING WORLD
Format:CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Conan guitarist/vocalist Jon Davis has announced that the first album to be released through his newly launched Black Bow Records label will be the debut full‐length from innovative UK black metal/doom hybrid Bast. Bast’s sound is a very interesting one indeed, drawing an equal amount of influence from avantsludge outfits like Neurosis and Eagle Twin as they do progressive black metal like Altar Of Plagues, Winterfylleth etc. The trio don’t fit comfortably in either the black metal or doom niches however, with their bleak yet psychedelic vibrations existing in a world of its own. Bast have already shared stages with the likes of Nachtmystium, Ufomammut and A Storm Of Light, so it was only a matter of time until Conan’s Jon Davis caught wind of their extraordinary sound.
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Band:NEBELUNG
Album:PALINGENESIS
Label:TEMPLE OF TORTUROUS
Format:CD
Genre:Folk
More than two years on the making, the release of PALINGENESIS defines a new era for NEBELUNG. Where its predecessors had been singing the hymn of autumn and night by the means of simply structured melancholic folk songs, PALINGENESIS takes on a different approach, transcending the boundaries of lyrics and song, sparing light and reason, and letting the music take on a direct and unaltered way to the depths of the subconscious. PALINGENESIS is a deep and transforming listen, with tracks built up like Mantras, tucking the listener into a dense and detailed tapestry of subtly woven, intertwining melodies and drones, rich in detail and structure, incorporating such a variety of acoustic instruments as both classical and steel stringed guitars, cello, accordion, indian harmonium, hammered dulcimer, glass harp, percussion and voice.
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Band:SHABDA
Album:TUMMO
Label:ARGONAUTA
Format:CD
Genre:Drone/Ambient
Shabda was formed in 2012 in northern Italy by Anna Airoldi, Marco Castagnetto and Riccardo Fassone, who had previously worked together in Thee Maldoror Kollective. With the inception of Shabda, the trio has started crafting meditative, repetitive sounds, with the aim to fuse Indian music, doom metal and minimalist exploration into a trance inducing, often somber droning ritual. Their first record, “The Electric Bodhisattva”, was released in 2013 by Paradigms Recordings. Musically interpreting the perennial tradition, the new album TUMMO focuses on kundalini alchemy by means of deep guitar tunes, microtonal intervals and ritual documents recorded in Varanasi, Sarnath and Amber.
Recommended to fans of Earth, Bong, Amon Düül, Ash Ra Tempel, La Monte Young.
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Band:HOLLOW LEG
Album:INSTINCT
Label:ARGONAUTA
Format:CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
U.S. sludge monsters HOLLOW LEG re-release their album “Instinct” under the flag of ARGONAUTA Records. The band, a duo now quartet, is an enormously toned groove engine hailing from the highways between Deland and Jacksonville, Florida. Their first full length, Instinct, as a duo of guitar and drums from late 2010 and released independently (now completely sold-out), was an action blown forth by their inherent and creative strengths housed within its lyrics and riffs. Since their incarnation as a duo, Hollow Leg has held live performances akin to Sleep and Eyehategod cooperatively steering a runaway freight train through the center of a volcano. Instinct is now again available for a full new life. A massive assault of slow head-banging music!
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Band:ROSCOE MITCHELL
Album:CONVERSATIONS WITH CRAIG TABORN
Label:WIDE HIVE
Format:CD
Genre:JAZZ/JAZZ ROCK
ROSCOE MITCHELL with Craig Taborn (ECM / Dave Holland) andf Kikanju Baku (stunning new drumming talent) make another classic trio for Roscoe's legacy. This superbly recorded masterpiece captures Roscoe at his most expressive and innovative with two interesting musical geniuses communicating a high level of expression together.
Roscoe is touring constantly -currently going to be live on the BBC with the Scottish Orchestra and with Tyshawn Sorey in Paris at Festival L'Hiver in January.
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Band:DAVID FATHEAD NEWMAN
Album:CELLAR GROOVE
Label:CELLAR LIVE
Format:CD
Genre:JAZZ/JAZZ ROCK
Legendary saxophonist and Ray Charles alumnus lights it up with a burning Vancouver trio.
The set is especially balanced and satisfying—from the brilliance of David’s original compositions (“Cellar Groove,” “The Cookie,” “The Gift”) to his signature blues lament (“Hard Times”) to classic bop (Hank Mobley’s “This I Dig Of You” and Dizzy Gillespie’s “Night in Tunisia”) to a haunting ballad (Duke Pearson’s “Cristo Redentor.”)
The steady support of Tilden Webb’s superb trio brings out the best of one of American’s premier jazzman. As you listen to David dance through the changes on this freezing night in Canada, you realize that certain artists improve with age. “Ripeness is all,” Shakespeare wrote in King Lear.
David Newman realized a ripeness—a gorgeous maturity of tone, invention and pure poetry—that will endure forever.
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Band:JEFF PRESSLAFF
Album:THE COMPLETE REBIRTH OF THE COOL
Label:CELLAR LIVE
Format:CD
Genre:JAZZ/JAZZ ROCK
Brand new music for the “Birth of the Cool” instrumentation.
Presslaff has a strong track record of successfully coordinating collaborative composition projects, including the Jazz Composers Ensemble, All Winds, Papa Mambo and much notable work with the Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra. He is joined by some of the leading lights of Western Canada's creative jazz community, including the already eminent Dean McNeil and Ken Gold, as well as soon-to-be acclaimed composers Will Bonness, Jonathan Stevens and Danielle Baert. The ensemble is first rate, drawing on the formidable instrumental abilities of both the composers and highly regarded players from the region
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Band:POOBAH
Album:U.S. ROCK
Label:RIPPLE MUSIC
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
U.S. Rock is the second release from the mighty Poobah (originally released in 1976) and the also the second to be re‐issued by Ripple Music. The album features ten tracks in the original running order, remastered by T. Dallas Reed at HeavyHead Studios. This is the first time that this album has seen the light of day in almost forty years and the CD edition features four bonus tracks, including a blistering live rendition of “Steamroller”. Jim Gustafson, the Grand Poobah himself, delivers a resounding set of six string heroics that should have seen him sitting alongside the greats of the time, and shows why he is the Wizard of Heavy Psyche!
"A blowout of English-power-trio and Rust Belt blues, with guitarist Jim Gustafson riffing in a thick-fuzz lather that will remind you, fondly, of Grand Funk Railroad’s Max Farner and the British ace Tony McPhee of the Groundhogs.” -- David Fricke, Rolling Stone Magazine
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Band:POOBAH
Album:U.S. ROCK - LP
Label:RIPPLE MUSIC
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Metal
U.S. Rock is the second release from the mighty Poobah (originally released in 1976) and the also the second to be re‐issued by Ripple Music. The album features ten tracks in the original running order, remastered by T. Dallas Reed at HeavyHead Studios. This is the first time that this album has seen the light of day in almost forty years and the CD edition features four bonus tracks, including a blistering live rendition of “Steamroller”. Jim Gustafson, the Grand Poobah himself, delivers a resounding set of six string heroics that should have seen him sitting alongside the greats of the time, and shows why he is the Wizard of Heavy Psyche!
"A blowout of English-power-trio and Rust Belt blues, with guitarist Jim Gustafson riffing in a thick-fuzz lather that will remind you, fondly, of Grand Funk Railroad’s Max Farner and the British ace Tony McPhee of the Groundhogs.” -- David Fricke, Rolling Stone Magazine
First LP repressing since 1976.
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Band:SHINDIG MAGAZINE
Album:ISSUE 37
Label:VOLCANO PUBLISHING
Format:MAGAZINE
Genre:Psych/Garage Reissues
Shindig! magazine - Psych, garage, prog, powerpop, soul, folk… for people who want more!
Issue 37 - Features Cover Stars THE RASPBERRIES Like The Beatles, the Stones and The Who all over again! The ’70s American rock stars who brought adolescent pop thrills back into the charts plus BBC RADIOPHONIC WORKSHOP Tomorrow’s world… yesterday! Behind the bleeps with the pioneering electronic collective LOS ANGELES LOVE-INS Music, meditation and mellow vibes for all in Southern California THE DREAM Introducing the mysterious psych preachers some called the Dutch Pink Floyd TEMPLES New psych darlings who live up to the hype PLUS: IAN ANDERSON • THE DREAM • NIGEL MAZLYN JONES
Avaialble from all good indie stores!
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Band:KRAUTZONE
Album:KOSMISCHE RITUALE
Label:SULATRON RECORDS
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Kraut / Space Rock
Krautzone was formed in September 2011 automatic - it just created itself totally spontaneous and autonomous: They met at the moonbase, to spend a nice time together. THE moment came and they decided to play music, so they fired the aggregates, pressed the recording button and improvised on the fly. After this session they all thought it’s like holidays from their actual bands like Electric Moon, Zone Six, The Pancakes... A substratum of these sessions, you can listen to on the current record, which is made totally in accordance with the zeitgeist of Krautrock: only on vinyl for now. This is limited to 1000 and will not be re-released in this format again. Spheric and magic seeming improvisations of Krautrock and Kosmische Musik, highlighted by subdued, percussively played shamanic drums and flurry psychedelic synthesizers. Monothonic bass and cosmic guitar build the room. Baba Lali was supposed to sing, but he just decided to fly through the room and spread cosmic, delightful atmosphere. „Kosmische Rituale“ is the soundtrack of a very spezial weekend. Lay back, relax and enjoy Krautzone! This album is mastered by Eroc and comes on marbled vinyl!
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Band:TROUBLED HORSE
Album:BRING MY HORSES HOME.
Label:Crusher
Format:VINYL 7"
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
This highly acclaimed debut single by Swedish band Troubled Horse was originally released in 2010, containing two early recordings from 2006 featuring singer Martin Heppich plus the then Witchcraft members John Hoyles, Ola Henriksson and Jens Henriksson. After high demand a re-print is now up for release. Same tracks, different cover artwork. After this debut release Troubled Horse signed to UK label Rise Above Records and released their debut album ‘Step Inside’ in 2012. The release was followed by Scandinavian and European tour with bands like Horisont and Orchid.
This TROUBLED HORSE single features no less than three WITCHCRAFT members!
Limited edition of 500 units of this re-print.
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Band:DARK FOREST
Album:THE AWAKENING
Label:Cruz Del Sur
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
Dark Forest was forged in the Black Country, England by guitarist Christian Horton. For just over a decade they have been delivering their uniquely rousing, defiant heavy metal to the world. With the release of their self-made EPs in 2007, the band quickly gained the attention and support of the heavy metal underground, both in England and abroad, and then went from strength to strength, gigging across Europe and the UK and releasing their self titled debut album in 2009, then Dawn of Infinity in 2011. In 2012 Dark Forest recruited the outstanding vocalist Josh Winnard as their new front man and shortly afterwards also gained the incredible talents of guitarist Pat Jenkins. With this new line up, the band immediately began writing fresh material and entered the recording studio in June 2013 to produce their third album “The Awakening”. The album is recorded in 444hz instead of the standardized 440hz tuning. The decision was based by studying the lost “Solfeggio frequencies”, original sound frequencies which were apparently used in Ancient Gregorian Chants and were believed to impart “spiritual blessings when sung in harmony”* and also by studying the nefarious origins of 440hz. Tuning to 444hz corresponds to a “C” of 528hz on the Solfeggio Frequency Scale, the exact frequency used by genetic biochemists to repair broken DNA. This frequency is also believed to encourage “Transformation and Miracles” . Dark Forest’s innate sense of melody remains intact on “The Awakening”, as well as the band’s trademarked epic twin-guitar dueling, but this time the album is permeated by a general sense of oppression and sorrow and sounds much more reflective than their previous works. Not by coincidence, “The Awakening” opens with the ending lines of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem “ The Mask of Anarchy” and ends with the anthem “Sons of England”. The awakening must be both spiritual and intellectual and through the rediscovery of our roots and a connection to nature, must lead all humanity to remember the truth - that we are infinite consciousness and we are one. This is the realization that will defeat the global control system of the elite and set humanity free.
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Band:LONG TALL TEXANS
Album:THE DEVIL MADE US DO IT
Label:SUNNY BASTARDS
Format:CD
Genre:Rock And Roll/Psychobilly
Great Britains Long Tall Texans are back cause the Devil made them do it!! It´s only taken them 8 years this time, but once again largely penned by Garry Castelmann though his band duties though his band duties have been long relieved by guitar-twanger Matt live and on record! Of course it´s again Mark Carew (also singer of the Hotknives) on vocals and bass and Theo still cracking the drum kit. The upped their game again and not only...but the tempo too, in a way they have gone full circle back to their psychobilly roots!! 13 songs produced & engineered by Mark Roberts at empor recordings and mastered by Tim Rowkins! Hard to believe after all this years and success worldwide, but this new album is simply but true one of their best ever! Call it Psychobilly, call it Rockabilly, call it what bloody well like! It´s an incredible cocktail of hymns and fun for your feet and soul.... or to say it in their own words...just need some sex & beer & psychobilly!!!!
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Band:LONG TALL TEXANS
Album:THE DEVIL MADE US DO IT - LP
Label:SUNNY BASTARDS
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Rock And Roll/Psychobilly
Great Britains Long Tall Texans are back cause the Devil made them do it!! It´s only taken them 8 years this time, but once again largely penned by Garry Castelmann though his band duties though his band duties have been long relieved by guitar-twanger Matt live and on record! Of course it´s again Mark Carew (also singer of the Hotknives) on vocals and bass and Theo still cracking the drum kit. The upped their game again and not only...but the tempo too, in a way they have gone full circle back to their psychobilly roots!! 13 songs produced & engineered by Mark Roberts at empor recordings and mastered by Tim Rowkins! Hard to believe after all this years and success worldwide, but this new album is simply but true one of their best ever! Call it Psychobilly, call it Rockabilly, call it what bloody well like! It´s an incredible cocktail of hymns and fun for your feet and soul.... or to say it in their own words...just need some sex & beer & psychobilly!!!!
Limited Picture Vinyl (666 copies) with cover and artwork by Vince Ray
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Band:NAOMI RANDALL WITH TOM GASKELL
Album:EPONYMOUS
Label:AAAHH REAL RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:Folk
Début full length from Cambridge-based folk artist Naomi Randall (performing with multi-instrumentalist Tom Gaskell); mixing traditional folk numbers alongside self-penned songs.
Full colour digipack - Initial run limited to just 100 copies.
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Band:MARCK T
Album:HANKCIOUS
Label:UNICORN DIGITAL
Format:CD
Genre:Instrumental
Here’s the first album from Spaced Out guitarist Mark Tremblay. Spaced Out is known for being composed of great musicians, Drummer Martin Maheux released 3 albums solo albums with his project MM Circle. Spaced Out’s Brain Antoine Fafard just released his second solo album in 2013, Now it is time for their great guitarist Mark to present his first solo album. This instrumental guitar album will definitly establish Marck.T as a name to remember in the guitar world
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Band:HUIS
Album:DESPITE GUARDIAN ANGELS
Label:UNICORN DIGITAL
Format:CD
Genre:Prog Rock
Huis ("home doors" in french, and "house" in dutch) is a five member musical project officially formed by Pascal Lapierre and Michel Joncas at the end of 2009, after an oustanding and inspiring trip in the Netherlands. At that time, we decided to put on tape (read hard drive!) some ideas we had in mind since a long time. Over time, three other talented musicians, William Regnier, Sylvain Descôteaux and Michel St-Père, joined the band, each one bringing a special touch to Huis’ sound.
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Band:SHRINE
Album:NIHIL
Label:cyclic law
Format:CD
Genre:Drone/Ambient
NIHIL is the second album for Cyclic Law from Bulgaria's Shrine. The album was completed in September'2013 as a commemoration of SHRINE’s 10th year anniversary (IX.2003 - IX.2013) and brings together seven tracks composed over the last 5 years. A very personal and poignant work that differs significantly from other SHRINE releases, being a lot heavier in atmosphere with a lingering gloom and largely saturated with negativity. Exploring the burden of the human ego from a personal point of view, it aims to expose a different look upon Freud's "Death Drive" theory.
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Band:OTAVAN VERET
Album:OTAVAN VERET
Label:cyclic law
Format:CD
Genre:Drone/Ambient
Finland's Otavan Veret is another new addition to the Cyclic Law family. Hailing from mystical Finland, the project is from the minds of Kaarna (Tervahäät, Anima Artica Label etc..) & Kivelä (Tervahäät,). Their first self titled album is a conceptual journey towards the the vastness of the universe, where one would simply seep into and become on with these amorphous territories.
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Band:NAO
Album:NAO 111
Label:JARRING EFFECTS
Format:CD
Genre:Industrial/EBM
Pierre-André Pernin started näo in 2007 as a one-man project, joined later by the drummer Thibault Fellmann, the guitarist Jordan Daverio. Over the year’s näo have gone beyond these influences to amaze audiences at already a hundred concerts and festival appearances in France and Germany with their unique, previously unheard sound. At the studio as well as on stage, näo develop and shape melancholic and aerial music, exploring moods from contained rage to lyrical digital outbursts. Like a surgeon, Pierre-André meticulously crafts mesmerizing melodies and down-tempo beats. His penchant for synthetic layers and for skilfully chiselled keyboard compositions gives his' music a unique and strange atmosphere, progressively immersing the listener into näo's world. To this already enriched enchantment Thibaud and Jordan add their rhythmic impulses and abrupt riffs, creating a mixed beast of electro-noise, melded with brute, highly energetic guitars and spliced with elements of post rock, metal and idm into something very unique and powerful.
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Band:VARIOUS ARTISTS
Album:SPIRIT OF SIREENA VOL 8
Label:SIREENA
Format:CD
Genre:Psych/Garage Reissues
Sireena Records continues the tradition and presents Vol. 8 of the popular series "The Spirit of Sireena". The CD includes contributions from the last 12 months. The label again offers a uniquely diversified limited compilation at a very special price. Be fast!
TRACK LISTING 01 Paul Roland & Midnight Rags “Werewolves of London” 3:27 02 Pee Wee Bluesgang “Can you hear my Thunder” 3:15 03 Tribute “Breaking Barriers” 5:50 04 Cinema “Total Transition” 6:23 05 Yellow Sunshine Explosion “It’s not my Fault” 3:31 06 Krokus “Rock ‘n Roll Gypsy” 4:34 07 Nattefrost “Will I get to your Heart” 4:54 08 Bullfrog “Get Away” 10:42 09 Paul Roland “Katmandu” 3:21 10 Mythos „Robot Secret Agents“ 2:56 11 Zoff “Oberguru aus’m Sauerland“ 4:22 12 1. Futurologischer Congress “Klondike” 3:38 13 Dungeon Rocks „ I have to run“ 5:10 14 Franz K. „Marmor, Stein und Eisen bricht“ 2:50 15 Manfred Schoof Quintet “Virtue” 4:07
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Band:TRIPPY WICKED AND THE COSMIC CHILDREN OF THE KNIGHT
Album:UNDERGROUND
Label:SUPERHOT
Format:CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Trippy Wicked & the Cosmic Children of the Knight return with a new EP. By far their most coherent release both musically and lyrically, Underground is also their darkest. Clocking in at just over 30 minutes the 5 song EP explores the more sludgy end of the spectrum of styles the UK three piece draw from and the songs are consistently laboured, heavy and deliberate in their execution.
For fans of Black Sabbath, Electric Wizard, Kyuss, Weedeater.
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Band:BONGCAULDRON
Album:BONGCAULDRON
Label:SUPERHOT
Format:CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Since their formation in mid 2011 BongCauldron have become a staple on the Leeds and Northern underground circuit. Recently racking up some great support slots with Windhand, Pilgrim and Dragged into Sunlight the Leeds 3 piece are booking a short UK tour for early 2014 to support the release of their self-titled EP and some festival appearances later in the year. Originally a self released demo, BongCauldron have recorded an extra track for the official release of their debut EP. The band have teamed up with Superhot Records and the result is 5 tracks of relentless and oppressive UK sludge presented in a 4 panel digipack featuring the nightmare horror artwork of Steve Myles.
For fans of Eyehategod, Iron Monkey, Weedeater, Sleep...
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Band:IRON HORSES
Album:BLACK LEATHER
Label:SIREENA
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
These guys are the real deal when it comes to straight ahead music. They mix the styles of such great acts as AC/DC, Ted Nugent and even Priestess with the power of Motorhead and even some Rose Tattoo, yet they have seemed to have made sure that their music is purely their own. They almost out sleaze Motley Crue here… and that is a task that is very hard to do, yet they have!
UK Tour with Molly Hatchet Feb 2014.
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Band:IMPURE WILHELMINA
Album:BLACK HONEY
Label:DIVISION
Format:2LP/CD
Genre:Postrock / Post Hardcore / Noise
Fifth album for the Swiss posthardcore heroes! After having heavily toured in Europe for their last effort, the astonishing Prayers & Arsons, the 4 gentlemen have taken their time to write this new masterpiece of tortured black emotion. Still relying on the band’s unique style and always displaying its strong personality, this new album is however taking the fight to a whole different level. Smoother in terms of pure aggression, but stronger when it comes to blissful emotion, the music is now revealing its incomparable ability to drown the listener in a breathtaking sea of raw beauty. Never have you listened to something like this. And never will you again. This is IMPURE WILHELMINA’s new jewel. This is BLACK HONEY.
2LP WITH CD INCLUDED.
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Band:DRAWERS
Album:DRAWERS
Label:KAOTOXIN
Format:CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
After a debut EP on Deadlight Entertainement in 2008 and a impressively massive debut full-length released in 2011 by Russia’s Slow Burn, along the lines of Mastodon and Baroness in 2011, touring everywhere they could in Europe and releasing a split CD with fellow French Stoner / Doomsters Hangman’s Chair, Drawers decided in a wise move that doing killer music wasn’t enough and that being able to reinvent themselves was way more interesting than releasing the same album over and over, as killer that album could be.
They then decided to strip down their material while keeping everything that made them such a praise outfit in their scene : heaviness, catchiness and a killer sense of groove and song-writing and to record their new, self-titled, second full-length live in the studio to keep things as straight forward and down to Earth as they could, being on disc what they really stand for live : a supercharged, high-octane, groove machine whose music as captivating as enjoyable upon the very first listen.
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Band:BYRTA
Album:BYRTA
Label:BESTE! UNTERHALTUNG
Format:CD
Genre:Dance/Electronica
BYRTA is a new duo from The Faroe Islands with members Guðrið Hansdóttir and Janus Rasmussen. Guðrið is best known as a singer-songwriter and Janus is best known for his role in Icelandic electro band Bloodgroup. They met while they were both living in Reykjavík, Iceland and they started experimenting with electronic pop music. The result was the band BYRTA and a brand new album filled with catchy pop melodies. The first single ”Loyndarmál” became a massive hit on the Faroes Radio and on the dancefloors. All the songs on the album are in Faroese and are mainly about difficult relationships and isolated life on small islands in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
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Band:BLAGRESI
Album:HVAD EF HIMMININN BROTNAR
Label:NORDIC NOTES
Format:CD
Genre:Alt-Country / Americana
BLAGRESI ("Bla" for "Blue" and "Gresi" for "Grass") is a young band from Iceland, whose most famous member is the one with Árstíðir very successful singer and guitarist DANIEL AUDUNSSON. On their debut "Hvad Ef Himininn Brotnar" the trio have some guest musicians from the vibrant Icelandic music scene. They are using Peoms from the well-known EINAR MAR GUDMUNDSSON. Einar got the Nordic Prize 2012 of the Swedish Academy for his books. Ten beautiful songs, somewhere between a dreamy Nordic Country / Bluegrass and folk that make the hearts of all the friends of Nordic sounds beat and not just lyrical tones strike, but also touch on socio-political issues.
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Band:ELAKELAISET
Album:HUMPPAKALMISTO
Label:NORDIC NOTES
Format:CD
Genre:Folk
20 Years anniversary Album Humppa versions of traditionals like El Condor Pasa, La Bamba or the Wanderer in an amazing versions Eläkeläiset was started as a joke in the spring 1993. The idea was to play rock classics in humppa style. Over the years the joke has proved to be far reaching – Eläkeläiset has earned wide recognition with bold humppa style and released not less than eight albums as well as couple of live albums and compilations alongside nine EPs. Eläkeläiset was at the peak of their popularity in 1995, when a real humppa scoop shook the nation in the summer. In the past years, the joyous noise of humppa has risen up to the heavens and carried out to foreign territories. Eläkeläiset has become a fixture.. an anarchistic and inebriated institution of sorts. In addition to cover songs, it has dabbled in composing its own humppa classics. Over the last ninteen years, it has toured all over Europe and has recording contracts in Central Europe and Russia. It has generated a book, a DVD, a couple of live albums and a plethora of merchandise raging from towels to hip flasks. Not bad for a disposable joke! The strangest thing so far is to try and qualify as Finland's entry to the Eurovision Song Contest of 2010. The band is competing with a song Hulluna humpasta which was released in a compilation Humppa Bingo in December 9th, 2009.
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Band:HOYRY KONE
Album:HUONO PARTURI
Label:NORDIC NOTES
Format:CD
Genre:Prog Rock
Jussi Kärkkäinen and Teemu Hänninen formed the band. In 1995, as a stable line-up was achieved, they published with the Swedish record company ad Perpetuam Memoriam their debut album, played with a variety of influences from rock, metal, jazz, folk and chamber music. Then there were some line-up changes, but the second album, released in 1997, continued the AvantProg of the debut. In the years after Höyry-Kone broke up. Jarno Sarkula, Marko Manninen and Teemu Hänninen then played in the similar experimental band Alamaailman Vasarat.
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Band:BLACK MOTOR
Album:YOSTA AAMUN KYNNKSELLE
Label:NORDIC NOTES
Format:CD
Genre:JAZZ/JAZZ ROCK
Come summer 2012, Black Motor upped the ante by announcing that legendary saxophonist Peter Brötzmann would join them on stage at their home arena, Club Telakka in Tampere. ”Black Motor sound refreshingly hard and gruff”, commended Brötzmann in a later interview with Soundi magazine. Before 2012 came to an end the band also found time to perform with pianist/composer Samuli Mikkonen and lauded saxophonists Juhani Aaltonen and Mikko Innanen. The triumphant year was wrapped up with a landmark appearance at the London Jazz Festival.
“Finland is ripe with new, important and exciting sounds, including Black Motor’s volcanic mojo”, noted Down Beat when reviewing the threesome at the Tampere Jazz Happening in November 2012. To take matters even further, Sami Sippola, Ville Rauhala and Simo Laihonen will showcase a new approach with meditative ballad album Yöstä aamun kynnykselle.
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Band:HOYRY KONE
Album:HYONETEISIA VOI RAKASTAA
Label:NORDIC NOTES
Format:CD
Genre:Prog Rock
Jussi Kärkkäinen and Teemu Hänninen formed the band. In 1995, as a stable line-up was achieved, they published with the Swedish record company ad Perpetuam Memoriam their debut album, played with a variety of influences from rock, metal, jazz, folk and chamber music. Then there were some line-up changes, but the second album, released in 1997, continued the AvantProg of the debut. In the years after Höyry-Kone broke up. Jarno Sarkula, Marko Manninen and Teemu Hänninen then played in the similar experimental band Alamaailman Vasarat.
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Band:RAKKA
Album:SOUTU
Label:NORDIC NOTES
Format:CD
Genre:JAZZ/JAZZ ROCK
RAKKA is a new improvising instrumental quintet from Finland. The first album "Soutu" of the band was in October by Lumpeela Julkaisut in Finland and by Nordic Notes in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Even though this particular band is new, the musicians have been playing together in several renowned combinations since the early 1990’s. Three band members Vuorinen, Orpana and Rauhala compose the music, which is a unique combination of musical influences from Finnish folk music, old dance hall music, blues, gospel and jazz. It is rhythmic, melodic and includes a lot of improvisation.
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Band:STUNTMAN
Album:INCORPORATE THE EXCESS
Label:HEAD RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
Autumn 2002, 'chaotic noise hardcore' is giving its quit due to its Legends' ends. At Sète, in south of France, STUNTMAN concrete his musical past with his 4 members and gives a rebirth of this defunct kind. The combo, with his many line up changes, delivers their energy and hatred on a considerable discography (two albums, an EP, a split and a dozen compilations appearances) also on more than 150 shows and more than 5 tours in Europe; some with bands like Coalesce, Russian Circles, Jucifer, Genghis Tron, Child Abuse, Kongh or Mumakil.
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Band:MARTIRIA
Album:R-EVOLUTION
Label:Rocksector
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
Martiria's 6th album features the legendary former Black Sabbath / Heaven & Hell / Dio drummer Vinny Appice on all songs. An epic combination of melodic doom, classic & power metal.
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Band:BEYOND VIOLET
Album:FROZEN WORDS EP
Label:Ravenheart
Format:CD
Genre:Dark Wave/Goth
Beyond Violet combines catchy melodies with an aggressive edge and a harmonically rich, theatrical sound. The band is strongly influenced by melodic hardrock bands such as Lacuna Coil, Evanescence, Rammstein, Unsun, Sirenia, Within Temptation and Muse, as well as early progressive rock and new wave acts.
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Band:LA VENTURA
Album:WHITE CROW
Label:Ravenheart
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
It’s been almost 5 years since the Dutch melodic metal quartet released their critically acclaimed debut album ‘A New Beginning’. Sure, they released an EP between then and now, but La-Ventura have kept a low profile while working on their new material. This is the new album, and although retaining a very strong sense of melody, offers up more uuummmppphhh than their debut.
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Band:ANTIGAMA
Album:METEOR - LP
Label:SELFMADEGOD
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Death Metal
Pressed on splatter blue vinyl limited to 300 copies only. Comes in a regular LP jacket with 12x24 inches insert w/ lyrics and download code! ANTIGAMA’s sixth studio full-length since forming in 2000, “Meteor” is the revered act’s first proper album since 2009’s acclaimed “Warning”, and following two LPs with Relapse Records, will see the band returning to longtime allies Selfmadegod Records, their first LP for the label since 2005’s innovative “Zeroland”.
Members of DECAPITATED, VADER, CHRIST AGONY...
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Band:USURPRESS / BENT SEA
Album:SPLIT CD..
Label:SELFMADEGOD
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
Selfmadegod Records is proud to announce the release of the split CD between Swedish USURPRESS and international grindcore unit BENT SEA. USURPRESS side includes three brand new songs recorded March 2013 with producer Erik Sundström. Pure d-beat/crust fueled Swedish death metal. Usurprss are: Steffe Pettersson – vocals, Pahl Sundstrom – guitar, Daniel Ekeroth – bass, Calle Andersson – drums. BENT SEA 8-song material was recorded sometime in 2012/2013 with line-up: Dirk Verbeuren - drums, guitar, Shane Embury – bass, Sven De Caluwe – vocals.
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Band:AGATHOCLES
Album:BLACK CLOUDS TERMINATE
Label:SELFMADEGOD
Format:CD
Genre:Grindcore
Selfmadegod Records has started the reissue series of complete AGATHOCLES catalog including full length studio releases. “Black Clouds Determinate” is the second album to see the light of day back in 1994. The 2013 re-release has been remastered for a louder, fuller and heavier result as well as features totally revamped artwork and layout. The 17-song CD includes the song “Until it Bleeds” that comes from the same April 1994 session at famous Soundshape Studios. This song was not released on the first CD pressing of the album. “Black Clouds Determinate” sounds like a mix of raw old school grind/noisepunk and the most filthy raw fast death metal. Also, it's the recording where AGATHOCLES used the most pitch shifted voice on it! It’s a classic of grindcore!
A must have for fans of BLOOD, MALIGNANT TUMOUR, NAPALM DEATH, DEAD INFECTION, ROT
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Band:THE SADE
Album:THE SADE II
Label:GO DOWN
Format:LP VINYL
Genre:Metal
II is the second record by THE SADE, power trio headed by Andrew Pozzy ( ex bass player / guitar player of OJM). After an EP (2009) and DAMNED LOVE (2011), their first full‐length album, the band from Padua seems to have found his own poetic and stylistic identity.
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Band:LU SILVER
Album:VOICES HARMONY SILVER STRING
Label:GO DOWN
Format:CD
Genre:Folk
From the deepest land of Cesena (Italy), comes the "STRING BAND" new project of Lu Silver (former lead singer of the hard‐rock band the Small Jackets. Rock attitude with guitars that lead to the west coast, blues and folk, great for those who loves has groups like Neil Young , Elliott Murphy, Leon Russell , Lynyrd Skynyrd and J.J. Cale. The various influences also lead to British music: very often "Lu refers to the Beatles , Rolling Stones and Terry Reid. Everything turns naturally into unplugged , or semi ‐ unplugged, where electric guitar sounds slightly distorted, giving way to the sounds of acoustic guitar wrapped in reverb and delay.
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Band:THE ELEPHARMERS
Album:WEIRD TALES FROM THE THIRD PLANET
Label:GO DOWN
Format:CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Based in Cagliari , Sardinia, Elepharmers is a stoner rock power trio formed at the end of 2009. After some changes at rhythmic section they finally found their balance with current line‐up: Guido "El Chino" Solinas on guitar and vocals (and bass, only on recordings), Andrea "Fex" Cadeddu on lead guitar and Maurizio Mura on drums. Influenced by sunny as unspoiled landscapes of their land, Elepharmers plays the sound of the end of the 60es, melted with the raw blues, psychedelic fascinations, the grooves of the stoner rock of the 90es, merge together in a cosmic vibration.
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Band:CORPSESSED
Album:ABYSMAL THRESHOLDS
Label:DARK DESCENT
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
After terrorizing your ear drums with 2011's "The Dagger and the Chalice" and 2012's self-titled 7" EP, Finland's Corpsessed are poised to thoroughly decimate what's left of your audial sensors.
The band's debut full-length, "Abysmal Thresholds" is over 47 minutes (10 tracks) of death metal the way you've come to expect from this hard-hitting Finnish band. No fluff, no hyperbole...this is destined to be one of the best albums of 2014, without a doubt.
” Fast drumming, pounding double bass, typical Scandinavian 90s guitar leads and the dark and haunted growls really make this output an enjoyable journey back to the good old days.”– Voices from the Darkside
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Band:LIE IN RUINS
Album:TOWARDS DIVINE DEATH
Label:DARK DESCENT
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
The anticipated follow-up to 2009's "Swallowed by the Void" (released on Spinefarm Records). Finland's Lie in Ruins make no missteps in delivering a 70 minute opus of pure death metal. Spanning 10 tracks, "Towards the Divine Death" displays a much more mature band and vision. While you will hear typical Lie in Ruins moments on this album, make no mistake, this is a nastier and grittier album that will leave you hoping the band doesn't go five more years before assaulting us with another album. Hail supreme Finnish death! Hail the divine death!
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Band:STAMINA
Album:PERSEVERANCE
Label:MY KINGDOM MUSIC
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
STAMINA is an Italian melodic Progressive Metal band - The band has now finished recording their 3rd album "Perseverance", which features Swedish singers Göran Edman (ex Yngwie Malmsteen, John Norum) and Nils Molin (Dynatzy) as special guests on some tracks and that will be released on February 24th, 2014 via My Kingdom Music.
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Band:LENORE S FINGERS
Album:INNER TALES
Label:MY KINGDOM MUSIC
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
Lenore S. Fingers is an Italian Gothic Metal band formed in 2010
RIYL Katatonia, Anathema, Type O Negative, Antimatter and The Gathering.
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Band:ABANDON ALL SHIPS
Album:MALOCCHIO
Label:REDFIELD
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
After reviving the modern hardcore metal scene when they burst onto the map in 2010, Abandon All Ships have since released two full length albums (Geeving / Infamous) via Velocity/Rise Records in the United States, Underground Operations in Canada and Redfield Records in Europe, 5 music videos, toured the world including a North American headline tour, and a nearly sold out cross Canada tour opening for Hollywood Undead
The career defining moments of Geeving (debuting at 27 on Billboard Top 200, winning the Much Loud Music Video award, and countless sold out shows across the country) have not affected their work ethic in the slightest. Launching 2012 with a sold out US tour with label mates Sleeping With Sirens and embarking on the 2012 Scream It Like You Mean It tour (with We Came As Romans & Attack Attack), the band has already started mapping out a tour schedule more rigorous than the one that brought them here today. On the heels of releasing their 3rd album, Malocchio, Abandon All Ships are showing no signs of retreat, and are aiming to take their next effort to brand new heights.
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Band:SENSUOUS ENEMY
Album:VOYAGER.
Label:NILIAHAH
Format:cd
Genre:Dark Wave/Goth
Madison, Wisconsin based female fronted darkwave electronic band blends driving drum sequences, hard EBM synth lines, and smoothly powerful vocals. Their music combines orchestral strings, piano, and vocal harmonies, while also adding live guitar, bass, and drums in order to create a sublime audio and visual experience.
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Band:CANCEROUS WOMB
Album:BORN OF A CANCEROUS WOMB
Label:GRINDSCENE
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
Cancerous womb formed in 2007 and quickly gained a reputation as one of Scotland’s most hardworking bands. The band released their first EP "Austrian Basement" in 2009. They then released a split cd "Split Roast" in 2012 which resulted in heavy touring across the UK, Ireland, Finland and Denmark.
“The Austrian Basement EP comfortably puts them at the very forefront of the Edinburgh metal scene” – Leavethehall.co.uk
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Band:LVCIFYRE
Album:SUN EATER
Label:DARK DESCENT
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
"Abysmal, gloriously evil, blessed with an almost cinematic grandeur, a sound that is as wide as it is crushingly heavy, commanding deep growls, tides of riffs and blasts that effortlessly shift from dissonant yet comprehensible passages to sheer brain-melting heavy f**kingness, on my personal arrghhness-meter this is a straight 666 out of 10.” and ” Bottom line is: “Svn Eater” is right up there among the finest UK purveyors of pure unholiness GRAVE MIASMA and CRUCIAMENTUM and on an international scale deserves to be named alongside the best Death Metal releases verging on the border to Black Metal. Amazing! ”– Voices from the Darkside
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Band:WE LIVE IN TRENCHES
Album:MODERN HEX
Label:SUICIDE RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
Let's just first point out that this isn't some two-bit lame punk act who demoed their first riffs on a cracked version of Pro Tools and posted them on myspace. No, such a thing they're not. So why is this important to point out you say? Well, the answer is simple: no debuting band could ever, and I mean ever, harness such intense anger and frustration and then make a nine song manifesto out of it. But that's exactly what WE LIVE IN TRENCHES has done with their album ”Modern Hex”. And it's not surprising either knowing the members of this band has been in the punk rock circuit since the early nineties and has been in such prominent bands as SATANIC SURFERS and ADHESIVE
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Band:RIDDARNA
Album:UNDER JORDEN
Label:GAPHALS
Format:CD
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
”Under jorden” (Underground) is the third album by Swedish band Riddarna. The new album is filled with frustration, angst and a wish to get away, anywhere. The band has a sound of new wave / postpunk combined with art / noise rock that reminds of Sonic Youth, Fugazi and that feeling of the 90's – a decade when the band grew up on the isolated island of Gotland outside the Swedish cost. During this period, the music scene exploded and new interesting music as Refused's “The Shape of Punk to Come” changed history at the same time as the American label Sub Pop with bands like Nirvana paved the way for a new kind of skewed melancholic music, and heavy rock acts like Queens of the Stone Age opened new doors for heavy, experimental and dark music. Riddarna fed hungrily on the music revolution of this era and grew up, and now, that time is gone forever but lives on with Riddarna – and their third album is a desperate cry and a fresh injection of pure rock.
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Band:RIDDARNA
Album:UNDER JORDEN - LP
Label:GAPHALS
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
”Under jorden” (Underground) is the third album by Swedish band Riddarna. The new album is filled with frustration, angst and a wish to get away, anywhere. The band has a sound of new wave / postpunk combined with art / noise rock that reminds of Sonic Youth, Fugazi and that feeling of the 90's – a decade when the band grew up on the isolated island of Gotland outside the Swedish cost. During this period, the music scene exploded and new interesting music as Refused's “The Shape of Punk to Come” changed history at the same time as the American label Sub Pop with bands like Nirvana paved the way for a new kind of skewed melancholic music, and heavy rock acts like Queens of the Stone Age opened new doors for heavy, experimental and dark music. Riddarna fed hungrily on the music revolution of this era and grew up, and now, that time is gone forever but lives on with Riddarna – and their third album is a desperate cry and a fresh injection of pure rock.LTD LP
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Band:HAPPY DAYS
Album:HAPPINESS STOPS HERE
Label:MAA
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
Reissue CD of the Happy Days 3rd album "Happiness Stops Here..."
For fans of Bethlehem, Burzum, Strid, Kanashimi, Infernal Necromancy, Dolorian
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Band:BETRAYERS JUDGEMENT
Album:PHILOSOPHER
Label:TWIN PEAKS
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
Killer French Metal act...
For fans of : Tesseract, Periphery, Meshuggah, Uneven Structure, & Eryn Non Dae
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Band:ODR
Album:IL PONTE DEL DIAVOLO
Label:NEMETON
Format:CD
Genre:FOLK METAL
A strong blend of Folk Metal in the classic style of Italian masters Furror Gallico.
The album is filled with great melodies and epic excursions
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Band:KRYN
Album:SCARS REMIND ME
Label:ETERNAL SOUND
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
Modern Metal Sensation from Croatia!
For Fans of Gojira, Meshuggah and Textures!
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Band:PANROKRATOR
Album:INCARNATE
Label:SOUNDMASS
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
Swedish band is now heavier but more melodic, brutal but catchy, dark but progressive.
It is moody extreme metal cloaked in death metal – their best and most diverse album.
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Band:PANROKRATOR
Album:INCARNATE - LP
Label:SOUNDMASS
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Death Metal
Swedish band is now heavier but more melodic, brutal but catchy, dark but progressive.
It is moody extreme metal cloaked in death metal – their best and most diverse album. Ltd LP.
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Band:RISE OF TYRANTS
Album:TRAUMA.
Label:Masterpiece Distr
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
American style Groove/Death metal...
Rise of Tyrants hail from Bergamo (near Milan) Italy.
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Band:DORMIN
Album:PSYKHE COMATOSE DISORDER
Label:Masterpiece Distr
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
For fans of the new Black Shoegaze scene...
DORMIN play a mix of ExtremeDarkDoomShoegazePostBlackMetal
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Band:SARCASM
Album:THRASH
Label:ON PAROLE
Format:CD
Genre:Thrash/Crossover Metal
“Thrash” is pure Sarcasm album with some surprises, such as female guest vocals on “Smrt šeta sama” and a metal version of Slovenian national anthem “Zdravljica”
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Band:BATTERY
Album:ARMED WITH RAGE
Label:PUNISHMENT 18
Format:CD
Genre:Thrash/Crossover Metal
2014 will see the release of the first full-length Battery album on Punishment 18 Records, containing 11 tracks of frantic and intense Thrashing Speed- Metal fury!
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Band:PREMATORY
Album:CORRUPTING INFLUENCE
Label:PUNISHMENT 18
Format:CD
Genre:Thrash/Crossover Metal
‘Corrupting Influence‘ marks the band’s evolution to a more unique mature sound and takes the listener on an aggressive journey about global, social and political problems in modern society.fury!
Belgian Thrash Metal legends !
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Band:WOSLOM
Album:EVOLUSTRUCTION
Label:PUNISHMENT 18
Format:CD
Genre:Thrash/Crossover Metal
Brazilian Thrash Metallers
As seen on tour with Entombed!
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Band:DEF LIGHT
Album:TRANSCENDEVIL
Label:METAL SCRAP
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
Second full-length album by Ukrainian Black/Death Metal band.
Recommended for fans of: Dimmu Borgir, Hate, Behemoth, Flashgod Apocalypse, Anorexia Nevrosa etc...
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Band:HALBERD
Album:RUTHLESS GAME
Label:METAL SCRAP
Format:CD
Genre:Thrash/Crossover Metal
Debut stuff from Russian Thrash Metal combo
Created in the classic Thrash Metal style, influenced by the early Metallica, Slayer and Kreator.
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Band:BELOW THE SUN
Album:ENVOY
Label:TEMPLE OF TORTUROUS
Format:CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
BELOW THE SUN came together from Krasnoyarsk, Russia, will release their debut album ‘Envoy’ via Temple of Torturous Records in February 2015. An album with six epic lengthy tracks rooted in sludge and funeral doom, but with progressive aspects very much reaching upwards to an ethereal, otherworldly plane.
For fans of: Neurosis, Darkspace and Spectral Lore.
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