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Band:DALEK
Album:ASPHALT FOR EDEN
Label:Profound Lore
Format:CD
Genre:Rap/Hip Hop
Conceived in New Jersey from its emerging DIY scene from the late ‘90s, cult hop-hop trio DÄLEK were known as pioneers over the last fifteen years or so of an intriguing sound which fused a blend of progressive hip-hop artistry supported by a rhythmic backdrop consisting of sonic experimentation through noise music and dark ambient (they would be dubbed by journalists as what would happen when you mix Public Enemy and My Bloody Valentine). Their singularity would be highlighted in four defining milestone full-length albums released on Mike Patton’s Ipecac Recordings (one of them being their “Absence” masterpiece LP from 2005), along with live actions where the band would support the likes of Tool and The Melvins, and even collaborate with the likes of artists such as Faust. In Spring 2015 mastermind MC Dälek (a.k.a. Will Brooks, with the blessing of ex-member/co-producer Oktopus) revived DÄLEK after a hiatus with a new lineup which now includes DJ rEk and Mike Swarmbots and are now preparing to release their new album “Asphalt For Eden” which will be the first official DÄLEK release since their last full-length, 2009’s “Gutter Tactics”. “Asphalt For Eden” sees a new creative peak for DÄLEK and will bring a new awareness for this cult hip-hop entity now resurrected once again and ready to show a formidable display of true hip hop artistry and experimentation through their new album and the plethora of touring the band have planned in support of it. A band which many see as one of the most genuine underground DIY hip hop iconoclasts.
“Asphalt For Eden” is the first official DÄLEK release since their 2009 album “Gutter Tactics” and marks the return of the originators of hip-hop noise ambient experimentation after a long hiatus ; For 20 years DÄLEK are considered pioneers in urban hip-hop and one of the first bands to combine hip-hop with harsh noise and experimental music.
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Band:DALEK
Album:ASPHALT FOR EDEN - LP
Label:Profound Lore
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Rap/Hip Hop
Conceived in New Jersey from its emerging DIY scene from the late ‘90s, cult hop-hop trio DÄLEK were known as pioneers over the last fifteen years or so of an intriguing sound which fused a blend of progressive hip-hop artistry supported by a rhythmic backdrop consisting of sonic experimentation through noise music and dark ambient (they would be dubbed by journalists as what would happen when you mix Public Enemy and My Bloody Valentine). Their singularity would be highlighted in four defining milestone full-length albums released on Mike Patton’s Ipecac Recordings (one of them being their “Absence” masterpiece LP from 2005), along with live actions where the band would support the likes of Tool and The Melvins, and even collaborate with the likes of artists such as Faust. In Spring 2015 mastermind MC Dälek (a.k.a. Will Brooks, with the blessing of ex-member/co-producer Oktopus) revived DÄLEK after a hiatus with a new lineup which now includes DJ rEk and Mike Swarmbots and are now preparing to release their new album “Asphalt For Eden” which will be the first official DÄLEK release since their last full-length, 2009’s “Gutter Tactics”. “Asphalt For Eden” sees a new creative peak for DÄLEK and will bring a new awareness for this cult hip-hop entity now resurrected once again and ready to show a formidable display of true hip hop artistry and experimentation through their new album and the plethora of touring the band have planned in support of it. A band which many see as one of the most genuine underground DIY hip hop iconoclasts.
“Asphalt For Eden” is the first official DÄLEK release since their 2009 album “Gutter Tactics” and marks the return of the originators of hip-hop noise ambient experimentation after a long hiatus.
MASSIVELY LIMITED BLACK VINYL EDITION - PRE-ORDER OR MISS OUT !
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Band:GERYON
Album:THE WOUND AND THE BOW
Label:Profound Lore
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
GERYON is a two-man NY-based avant-garde technical prog-death metal band comprised of one half of KRALLICE, namely bassist/vocalist Nicholas McMaster and drummer Lev Weinstein.
Solely through bass guitar, drums, and vocals, GERYON conjure a singular vision through complex layers and meticulously crafted tones where dissonance and melody maintain that equilibrium though the band’s chaotic sound. Taking from the blueprint through the duo’s experience in Krallice and Astomatous (the two-piece band McMaster and Weinstein had years before joining Krallice while they were Chicago-based, which was also a progressive metal outfit that consisted only of bass, drums, and vocals), GERYON while seemingly stripped down to the bare minimum without any electric guitars in the mix whatsoever, the sounds that conjure from the duo’s new album “The Wound And The Bow” (which follows 2013’s selftitled debut) present an enveloping and overwhelming sound picture. A bizarre, strange yet unforgettable and twisted sonic journey to behold.
For fans of Krallice, Gorguts, Dysrhythmia, and overall technical dissonant avant-garde death metal
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Band:BLAAK HEAT
Album:SHIFTING MIRRORS
Label:SVART
Format:CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Formed in Paris by guitarist/singer Thomas Bellier (ex-Spindrift) in 2008, Blaak Heat relocated to Los Angeles in 2012 withdrummer Mike Amster and bassist Tom Davies (formerly of psych mavericks Nebula). Dropping the former name of Blaak Heat Shujaa, they became more primal, more indigenous and expanded the Eastern influence by incoorperating more traditional instruments and using percussionist Nelson Bragg (The Brian Wilson Group) to embellish the developing sound. ' Shifting Mirrors’ is an album that is as intriguing as it is perilously unrelenting. By exploring a range of tonalities, tempos, and traditional soundscapes, Blaak Heat are able to traverse a number of musical territories. The lead track from the album ‘ Sword of Hakim’ demonstrates the best of the bands unruly, bludgeoning guitar tone, whilst also creating a technically composite and solid rhythmic approach, which brutally rolls out, leaving the listener feeling transcended.
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Band:BLAAK HEAT
Album:SHIFTING MIRRORS - LP
Label:SVART
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Formed in Paris by guitarist/singer Thomas Bellier (ex-Spindrift) in 2008, Blaak Heat relocated to Los Angeles in 2012 withdrummer Mike Amster and bassist Tom Davies (formerly of psych mavericks Nebula). Dropping the former name of Blaak Heat Shujaa, they became more primal, more indigenous and expanded the Eastern influence by incoorperating more traditional instruments and using percussionist Nelson Bragg (The Brian Wilson Group) to embellish the developing sound. ' Shifting Mirrors’ is an album that is as intriguing as it is perilously unrelenting. By exploring a range of tonalities, tempos, and traditional soundscapes, Blaak Heat are able to traverse a number of musical territories. The lead track from the album ‘ Sword of Hakim’ demonstrates the best of the bands unruly, bludgeoning guitar tone, whilst also creating a technically composite and solid rhythmic approach, which brutally rolls out, leaving the listener feeling transcended.
Black Vinyl LP.
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Band:BLIZARO
Album:CORNUCOPIA DELLA MORTE
Label:I VOIDHANGER
Format:CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
John Gallo, the unsung American master of horror doom, is back with the long-awaited sophomore album by BLIZARO. No less adventurous than its predecessor (“City Of The Living Nightmare”, 2010) or the “Strange Doorways” collection of demos and rarities, "Cornucopia della Morte" is however more powerful, dynamic, focused and refined. Written and recorded in 2013, the album was then shelved to make room to Gallo's uncontrollable bursts of creativity which lead to JOHN GALLOW, a solo project that debuted on I, Voidhanger Records in 2014 with the acclaimed doom masterpiece “Violet Dreams”. Now that BLIZARO are writing new material, “Cornucopia della Morte” has been called back from its provisional grave and wrapped in an imaginative cover painting by Dan Bell which perfectly captures BLIZARO's penchant for all things horror, doomy and weirdly dark. Driven by Gallo's rip-roaring guitar-playing and slanted vocals, and by the formidable rhythm section of Mark Rapone (bass) and Mike Waske (drums), “Cornucopia della Morte” conjures up the ghosts of Goblin, Black Sabbath, Paul Chain, Pentagram and Candlemass at the crossroad of doom, prog, psych rock, heavy metal, and the Italian horror soundtracks from the 70's. The album features 8 new BLIZARO songs, plus a shattering cover of "Voyage To Hell" (Paul Chain Violet Theatre).
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Band:ARCADE MESSIAH
Album:ARCADE MESSIAH 1
Label:STEREOHEAD
Format:CD
Genre:Prog Rock
Post Metal, Post Rock, Progessive Metal project.
Voulme One of the new project from John Bassett of KINGBATHMAT fame..
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Band:ARCADE MESSIAH
Album:ARCADE MESSIAH 11
Label:STEREOHEAD
Format:CD
Genre:Prog Rock
Post Metal, Post Rock, Progressive Metal Project
Volume Two of the new project from John Bassett of Kingbathmat fame.
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Band:SKATING POLLY
Album:THE BIG FIT
Label:BURNSIDE
Format:CD
Genre:Rock
Skating Polly began six years ago – while members Kelli Mayo and Peyton Bighorse were still in middle school. Now, three albums later, with extensive U.S. and U.K. tours under their belt, the punk-infused pop duo are releasing their newest album, The Big Fit, their most fully realized collection of head-bopping, not quite sugar-sweet pop music infused with visceral, distortion-drenched punk sounds. It’s raw, infectious and inciting. It’s real. Last seen supporting an approving Babes In Toyland In the UK.
"Sit up and listen. - NME
“So happy that there were two young women out there making good music on their own in the middle of America.” –Exene Cervenka - X
"Some music gets it. Some music doesn’t get it. This gets it. This is fucking fantastic. I don’t give a shit about their age. Either music gets it or it doesn’t. And this gets it." –Everett True
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Band:SKARLETT RIOT
Album:SENTIENCE
Label:SR RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
Skarlett Riot’s burgeoning reputation as one of the UK’s finest young bands continued to build with their last EP ‘We Are The Brave’, not only with the critics, but also in the live arena with the band packing out their own headline tours of the UK and pulling more high profile support slots, including a tour with Ozzy Osbourne guitarist Gus G. (with Skarlett being personally invited to sing Gus’ ‘Long Way Down’ single at every show) as well as many more festival slots. A February 2016 UK tour with fast-rising New Zealand act Devilskin sees Skarlett Riot bringing down the curtain on the ‘We Are The Brave’ record but fear not, as their brand new EP, ‘Sentience’ is due May 2016. Another huge step up in the band’s song writing, ‘Sentience’ is powerful, edgy and hugely melodic and will be supported with another extensive bout of touring.
“Fires off like a grappling hook purpose-built to host the quartet towards stardom..A band ready to contend for the top." KKKK - Kerrang! Magazine
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Band:BARDUS
Album:STELLA PORTA
Label:SOLAR FLARE
Format:CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
If the Melvins, Eyehategod, Unsane, and Queens of the Stone Age all somehow co-fathered some ungodly offspring “ has been written by Metalsucks as an accurate description of what Bardus sounds like. Formed in 2011 in Philadelphia, PA, Bardus has been daring listeners to define their sound, which has been described as “genredefying impetuosity” by Heavy Planet. Citing heavy, sludgy, groove, psychedelia, noise rock influences, Bardus continues to challenge listeners. Following their debut full length “Solus” self released in 2013, Bardus has been creating a name for themselves through DIY touring and playing support for national acts. Bardus was chosen by Metalsucks to take part in their collaboration with Converse Rubber Tracks in 2014 which helped them reach more people ears. Continued touring and support has brought them to where they’re at today. Through their hard hitting style of music, Bardus has continued to develop a sound of their own and it can be heard on their newest full length, Stella Porta, which will be released on Solar Flare Records.
“Bardus make the kind of grungy, stonery noise rock that will remind why you ever loved the genre in the first place" – Metalsucks
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Band:PSYCHEDELIC WITCHCRAFT
Album:THE VISION
Label:SOULSELLER
Format:cd
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Fast rising star from southern Europe. PSYCHEDELIC WITCHCRAFT is fronted by an Italian doomstress named Virginia Monti. The band was formed in March 2015, living through the imaginary of Occult and Witchcraft with psychedelic colors and emotions, inspired by the sounds and the pictures of an almost lost era. The EP "Black Magic Man" was released on vinyl in July and sold out in less than 10 days. CD format
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Band:PSYCHEDELIC WITCHCRAFT
Album:THE VISION - LP
Label:SOULSELLER
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
GATEFOLD VINYL VERSION ON 140 GRAMS BLACK VINYL LIMITED TO 500 COPIES WORLDWIDE!
Fast rising star from southern Europe. PSYCHEDELIC WITCHCRAFT is fronted by an Italian doomstress named Virginia Monti. The band was formed in March 2015, living through the imaginary of Occult and Witchcraft with psychedelic colors and emotions, inspired by the sounds and the pictures of an almost lost era. The EP "Black Magic Man" was released on vinyl in July and sold out in less than 10 days.
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Band:SVARTTJERN
Album:DODSSKRIK
Label:SOULSELLER
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
SVARTTJERN was originally formed as a two-man-project in 2003 by HansFyrste and HaaN. The two brothers soon decided to bring up a full line-up in order to do some live shows, and to take the band on new levels. Later that same year Skabb, Grimdun and Fjellnord joined the duo, and SVARTTJERN started to work on their first demo recordings. Over the next years two demos were recorded, “Blasphemic War” and “Raped by Svarttjern”, but SVARTTJERN were still working towards their own sound, so not much time was given to the demos afterwards. In 2007, SVARTTJERN parted ways with Skabb, and Terror came in on the bass, bringing fresh blood. The band was now ready to record a three track demo to finally show the sound they had been working on for so many years. “Demo 07” was sent out to labels and only printed in very few numbers for sale. SVARTTJERN signed to Schwarzdorn Production and released their debut album “Misanthropic Path of Madness” in 2009, which received great feedback and reviews from all over the world. The second full-length, "Towards the Ultimate", was released in 2011 via Agonia Records and took their extreme art to the next level. Between 2012 and 2013, SVARTTJERN mostly focused on playing live shows and chose to end their bond with Agonia Records. In 2014 the third album "Ultimatum Necrophilia" was released by NoiseArt Records and showed an even more brutal side. Later that year the band managed to get on tour with some of the most iconic bands within the scene, namely Behemoth, Cradle of Filth, Inquisition and In Solitude. Now, SVARTTJERN will wreak havoc again with their new record!
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Band:SVARTTJERN
Album:DODSSKRIK - LP
Label:SOULSELLER
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Black Metal
VINYL VERSION ON 140 GRAMS BLACK VINYL LIMITED TO 300 COPIES WORLDWIDE!
SVARTTJERN was originally formed as a two-man-project in 2003 by HansFyrste and HaaN. The two brothers soon decided to bring up a full line-up in order to do some live shows, and to take the band on new levels. Later that same year Skabb, Grimdun and Fjellnord joined the duo, and SVARTTJERN started to work on their first demo recordings. Over the next years two demos were recorded, “Blasphemic War” and “Raped by Svarttjern”, but SVARTTJERN were still working towards their own sound, so not much time was given to the demos afterwards. In 2007, SVARTTJERN parted ways with Skabb, and Terror came in on the bass, bringing fresh blood. The band was now ready to record a three track demo to finally show the sound they had been working on for so many years. “Demo 07” was sent out to labels and only printed in very few numbers for sale. SVARTTJERN signed to Schwarzdorn Production and released their debut album “Misanthropic Path of Madness” in 2009, which received great feedback and reviews from all over the world. The second full-length, "Towards the Ultimate", was released in 2011 via Agonia Records and took their extreme art to the next level. Between 2012 and 2013, SVARTTJERN mostly focused on playing live shows and chose to end their bond with Agonia Records. In 2014 the third album "Ultimatum Necrophilia" was released by NoiseArt Records and showed an even more brutal side. Later that year the band managed to get on tour with some of the most iconic bands within the scene, namely Behemoth, Cradle of Filth, Inquisition and In Solitude. Now, SVARTTJERN will wreak havoc again with their new record!
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Band:PURPLE HILL WITCH
Album:PURPLE HILL WITCH - LP
Label:THE CHURCH WITHIN
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Purple Hill Witch was summoned out of the norwegian countryside for about three years ago. The young trio (who's members are also to be found in Spectral Haze, Condor and Flight) are under heavy influence of bands such as Pentagram, Witchfinder General and Black Sabbath, complimented by the filthiness of old heavy- and thrash- metal bands from the 70's and 80's. After spending their first couple of years playing alongside many great bands in Oslo's shady basements, they crossed the norwegian border for the first time this november, as they hit the european roads together with the doom legends of Lord Vicar.
LIMITED EDITION VINYL PRESSING
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Band:SEAMOUNT
Album:NITRO JESUS - LP
Label:THE ART CANNOT BE DAMAGED
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
After 2012's "Earthmother" Seamount took a break from live appearances and for the first time slowed its writing process until they gathered up their ideas for this new 2015 release of their fifth studio recording “Nitro Jesus” that brings back the straight ahead vibe of Sacrifice and NTODRM, prioritizing a more hook oriented style that puts Seamounts adroitness for rhythm and melody to a prominent forefront, proudly stating the idea of traditional songwriting above all else.
LIMITED EDITION VINYL LP
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Band:MOUNTAIN WITCH
Album:BURNING VILLAGE
Label:THIS CHARMING MAN
Format:CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
"At the behest of our good friends over at This Charming Man Records, I’ve been sat on this for a while now, and being a long term diehard fan of the band, it fair to say it’s nearly killed me. I will however open with this – For those of you who have followed Mountain Witch over the years, you may be somewhat taken a back by trio’s most recent sound. It’s out with the traditional sombre doom-groove and in with something wholly more, well, retro. Fortunately the change to the band’s dynamic has been pretty gradual, with the introduction of a third member and the subsequent release of Cold River, the band laid the ground work for what they have progressed to today. So the exchange of fuzz to funk shouldn’t pose too much of a shock to the system. Fear not though, when I say that (often dreaded) four letter F word, they’ve not gone all stacked heels and slap bass. Don’t think Bootsy Collins, no, instead imagine if Grand Funk had one day picked up a Ouija board and got heavily into the works of Aleister Crowley and Vincent Price, then gone on to release We’re an American Doom Band… this is exactly how that would have sounded. Straight out of the gates Burning Village states it’s new and uncompromising intentions and opening with a subtle use of Hammer-House-esque samples they’ve managed to reaffirm that not all of the band’s doom heavy origins have been cast to the back burner. Not by a long shot. While the tone, song structure and production all feel like they’ve been pulled right out of the early 70′s the trio have managed to craft something that by the same token still feels heavily modern and unique. Not that the aforementioned is in anyway a band thing. Hell, I long for a return to those simpler, analogue days, and after the bitter disappointment that was Uncle Acid’s Night Creeper earlier in the year, it’s fantastic to hear an album that can actually conjure up all that retro feeling and essence while not feeling precocious or like the audible equivalent of watching paint dry. Sure, many of you’ve become akin to the slower and darker of the band’s first three outings may not be instantly won over or drawn to Burning Village, I urge you to give it a few listens. Once the initial shock of the change has settled in, you can, and no doubt will, see exactly what this album is – An absolute powerhouse of early 70′s inspired occult rock filled with more satisfying riff hungry eeriness than a Pentagram encore at a black mass under a full moon on October 31st." ~ Jay – Ride With The Devil
CD FORMAT.
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Band:MOUNTAIN WITCH
Album:BURNING VILLAGE - LP
Label:THIS CHARMING MAN
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
"At the behest of our good friends over at This Charming Man Records, I’ve been sat on this for a while now, and being a long term diehard fan of the band, it fair to say it’s nearly killed me. I will however open with this – For those of you who have followed Mountain Witch over the years, you may be somewhat taken a back by trio’s most recent sound. It’s out with the traditional sombre doom-groove and in with something wholly more, well, retro. Fortunately the change to the band’s dynamic has been pretty gradual, with the introduction of a third member and the subsequent release of Cold River, the band laid the ground work for what they have progressed to today. So the exchange of fuzz to funk shouldn’t pose too much of a shock to the system. Fear not though, when I say that (often dreaded) four letter F word, they’ve not gone all stacked heels and slap bass. Don’t think Bootsy Collins, no, instead imagine if Grand Funk had one day picked up a Ouija board and got heavily into the works of Aleister Crowley and Vincent Price, then gone on to release We’re an American Doom Band… this is exactly how that would have sounded. Straight out of the gates Burning Village states it’s new and uncompromising intentions and opening with a subtle use of Hammer-House-esque samples they’ve managed to reaffirm that not all of the band’s doom heavy origins have been cast to the back burner. Not by a long shot. While the tone, song structure and production all feel like they’ve been pulled right out of the early 70′s the trio have managed to craft something that by the same token still feels heavily modern and unique. Not that the aforementioned is in anyway a band thing. Hell, I long for a return to those simpler, analogue days, and after the bitter disappointment that was Uncle Acid’s Night Creeper earlier in the year, it’s fantastic to hear an album that can actually conjure up all that retro feeling and essence while not feeling precocious or like the audible equivalent of watching paint dry. Sure, many of you’ve become akin to the slower and darker of the band’s first three outings may not be instantly won over or drawn to Burning Village, I urge you to give it a few listens. Once the initial shock of the change has settled in, you can, and no doubt will, see exactly what this album is – An absolute powerhouse of early 70′s inspired occult rock filled with more satisfying riff hungry eeriness than a Pentagram encore at a black mass under a full moon on October 31st. " ~ Jay – Ride With The Devil.
LTD LP FORMAT.
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Band:WHITE WINE
Album:WHO CARES WHAT THE LASER SAYS
Label:THIS CHARMING MAN
Format:CD
Genre:Alt Rock
White Wine began as a solo project of Joe Haege (31knots, Tu Fawning, Menomena, Dodos). It was simply a place for his ideas that didn't fit his other bands. After writing and recording 2 albums ("Chromakey" on Polyvinyl Records and "In Every Way But 1" on Discolexique records) he made a plan to tour Europe as a way to visit friends. Not one for having a laptop as his bandmate, he asked his good friend, Fritz Brückner, who was the sound man for Tu Fawning and Menomena, to be his band for the tour. Without a computer they managed to put together a set that had each of them playing synths, guitars, drums, bass, samples…and sometimes all in 1 song. The tour went incredibly well by all accounts. Presented with the offer of a cheap apartment right next door to Fritz's, Joe found himself, only a few months later, at a crossroads that his words will explain best: "I was in my mid 30's, my entire adult life focussed on music/acting/art. No kids, no girlfriend. I was living in LA, the crown Jewel of American excess, success, failure and synthetic life. How could I not jump at the chance to put the romance of Europe into a more realistic view while creating more music?" Now a year and a half later they have built their own recording studio (Haunted Haus Studios) completed a new album, "Who Cares What The Laser Says?" (This Charming Man Records) and gained another member, Chistian "Kirmes" Kühr (Zentral Heizung Des Todes). Having now reverted to a conventional 3 piece lineup, they are doing anything but playing it safe. Brückner has finally integrated his skills as a classically trained bassoon player into the band, while Haege is once again putting his penchant for cheap theater antics to work with the new stage show, and the endless supply of ability and talent in Mr. Kühr has only begun to show itself in with intense drumming and guitar playing. For the immediate future White Wine will be touring in support of their soon-to-be released album and doing what they can to showcase the humanity in music: the madness, the fun, the sadness, the creepiness and the endless complications. CD.
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Band:WHITE WINE
Album:WHO CARES WHAT THE LASER SAYS - LP
Label:THIS CHARMING MAN
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Alt Rock
White Wine began as a solo project of Joe Haege (31knots, Tu Fawning, Menomena, Dodos). It was simply a place for his ideas that didn't fit his other bands. After writing and recording 2 albums ("Chromakey" on Polyvinyl Records and "In Every Way But 1" on Discolexique records) he made a plan to tour Europe as a way to visit friends. Not one for having a laptop as his bandmate, he asked his good friend, Fritz Brückner, who was the sound man for Tu Fawning and Menomena, to be his band for the tour. Without a computer they managed to put together a set that had each of them playing synths, guitars, drums, bass, samples…and sometimes all in 1 song. The tour went incredibly well by all accounts. Presented with the offer of a cheap apartment right next door to Fritz's, Joe found himself, only a few months later, at a crossroads that his words will explain best: "I was in my mid 30's, my entire adult life focussed on music/acting/art. No kids, no girlfriend. I was living in LA, the crown Jewel of American excess, success, failure and synthetic life. How could I not jump at the chance to put the romance of Europe into a more realistic view while creating more music?" Now a year and a half later they have built their own recording studio (Haunted Haus Studios) completed a new album, "Who Cares What The Laser Says?" (This Charming Man Records) and gained another member, Chistian "Kirmes" Kühr (Zentral Heizung Des Todes). Having now reverted to a conventional 3 piece lineup, they are doing anything but playing it safe. Brückner has finally integrated his skills as a classically trained bassoon player into the band, while Haege is once again putting his penchant for cheap theater antics to work with the new stage show, and the endless supply of ability and talent in Mr. Kühr has only begun to show itself in with intense drumming and guitar playing. For the immediate future White Wine will be touring in support of their soon-to-be released album and doing what they can to showcase the humanity in music: the madness, the fun, the sadness, the creepiness and the endless complications. LP FORMAT.
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Band:CLOWNS
Album:BAD BLOOD - LP
Label:THIS CHARMING MAN
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
Combining a vicious base layer of punishing punk rock combined with influences that range from 77’ punk, to underground Australian rock, as well as thrash, doom, noise and powerpop all loaded with chaos, energy and fun. Clowns really know no boundaries in regards to leaving punters stoked that they left their couches and came out to see them at a show. With two full length LP’s under their belt including 2013’s “I’m Not Right” which ranked in at number 5 of national radio's "Short Fast Loud' top 40 releases of 2013, as well as the already highly acclaimed follow up LP "Bad Blood" released in early 2015, Clowns are heavily equipped with the right credentials to back up their impressive live show. Both of these records are out on highly esteemed Australian label “Poison City Records”, which the band have a strong and proud working relationship with, as well as having North American distribution through “No Idea Records” in USA. With over 300 shows since the bands inception, shedding the lifeblood of Melbourne hardcore punk across South-East Asia, China, New Zealand, Australia and just recently USA; not to mention appearances at SXSW in Texas, MIDI Festival in China and many wild Australian East Coast shows, it’s safe to say that Clowns have a strong thirst for being on the road.
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Band:FAINTEST IDEA
Album:INCREASING THE MINIMUM RAGE
Label:TNS RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:Punk / Reggae
Kicking around the streets of sea port market town Kings Lynn in one form or another since 2008, the rudeboy street punks of Faintest Idea will release their new album ‘Increasing The Minimum Rage’ via Manchester-based punk label TNSrecords.
What started out as a visceral punk band venting their political angst, Faintest Idea have slowly developed their own signature blend of street punk with horns as over time their two-tone, ska and reggae influences naturally bled through. They might have a different sound, but they’re still as pissed off as ever, with the current austerity measures from the Tory government raining misery over the country giving them plenty of ammunition. Throughout the album the lyrics tackle current global issues such as ecological destruction, the failures of capitalism, the seeming futility of voting and the rising problems with mental health.
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Band:ILL WICKER
Album:UNTAMED
Label:THE SIGN RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:Psych/Folk
Gothenburg based Ill Wicker declares with their second album ” Untamed" that prog-rock is still vital. During dark gatherings a charming and seductive tale of the "Untamed” is told. The seven chapter story folds out in a place were the rules set up for acoustic folk is not applied. The circle of six that is Ill Wicker have extended their sound and they are stretching out their arms around a larger universe vibrating of beauty, demonic desperation and life.
"...this remarkable six-piece from Gothenburg burn with such fire and intensity that it’s almost as if they stumbled upon their own dark forest magic in a hermetically sealed universe parallel to that in which Comus and the Incredible String Band once existed – as if two people in two different places discovered electricity via two different routes. Yes, that good.....” - Hugh Dellar, Shindig!-Magazine
CD Format
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Band:ILL WICKER
Album:UNTAMED - LP
Label:THE SIGN RECORDS
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Psych/Folk
Gothenburg based Ill Wicker declares with their second album ” Untamed" that prog-rock is still vital. During dark gatherings a charming and seductive tale of the "Untamed” is told. The seven chapter story folds out in a place were the rules set up for acoustic folk is not applied. The circle of six that is Ill Wicker have extended their sound and they are stretching out their arms around a larger universe vibrating of beauty, demonic desperation and life.
"...this remarkable six-piece from Gothenburg burn with such fire and intensity that it’s almost as if they stumbled upon their own dark forest magic in a hermetically sealed universe parallel to that in which Comus and the Incredible String Band once existed – as if two people in two different places discovered electricity via two different routes. Yes, that good.....” - Hugh Dellar, Shindig!-Magazine
LP with full colour sleeves and with download code
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Band:LIZZIES
Album:GOOD LUCK
Label:THE SIGN RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
Lizzies 9 track debut album is an outstandingly fresh debut that showcases and impressive blend of shades of rock and metal. The band has a unique approach and an insaciable hunger for hooks and great melodies backed by a really strong capacity for composing simply good songs. Lizzies are a four piece heavy metal act from Spain, which perfectly combines both the aggression and the melodic edge of classic NWOBM with a breathtaking fury and dedication that results in an impressive blend of energy and attitude rarely seen among young bands like this. Their impressive riffing, and most specially their strength and power onstage, helped the band building an outstanding reputation that took them to play in Germany (Metalheadz Open Air & Headbangers Open Air), Sweden (Muskelrock) and England (Live Evil) and also to become one of the most promising bands of the underground scene in Europe...
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Band:LIZZIES
Album:GOOD LUCK - LP
Label:THE SIGN RECORDS
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Metal
Lizzies 9 track debut album is an outstandingly fresh debut that showcases and impressive blend of shades of rock and metal. The band has a unique approach and an insaciable hunger for hooks and great melodies backed by a really strong capacity for composing simply good songs. Lizzies are a four piece heavy metal act from Spain, which perfectly combines both the aggression and the melodic edge of classic NWOBM with a breathtaking fury and dedication that results in an impressive blend of energy and attitude rarely seen among young bands like this. Their impressive riffing, and most specially their strength and power onstage, helped the band building an outstanding reputation that took them to play in Germany (Metalheadz Open Air & Headbangers Open Air), Sweden (Muskelrock) and England (Live Evil) and also to become one of the most promising bands of the underground scene in Europe.
LP Format with DL codes.
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Band:ALEXANDER DUREFELT
Album:IN THE GRACE OF THE WOODS
Label:DAUGHTERS AND SONS
Format:CD
Genre:Alt-Country / Americana
With his third album In The Grace Of the Woods Alexander Durefelt returns to the characters with whom it all started. The journey never ends, either you have to move or try to stay with something or someone. The album is Scandinavian Soul and melancholic Americana with elements of Country that takes you to the other side of the ocean,a journey undertaken by many swedes. Alexander's own journey 15 years ago took him from Tranås,to the port city of Gothenburg, where the journey started for the many swedes who looked to America for a brighter future. "In The Grace Of the Woods" is 10 tracks that are filled with honesty and hope 10 songs about distance, loss and decisions, told with its very own unique voice.
Scandinavian Soul and melancholic Americana with elements of Country - A mix of Ryan Adams, War On Drugs and Kristofer Astrom. Digipack with download code.
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Band:ALEXANDER DUREFELT
Album:IN THE GRACE OF THE WOODS - LP
Label:DAUGHTERS AND SONS
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Alt-Country / Americana
With his third album In The Grace Of the Woods Alexander Durefelt returns to the characters with whom it all started. The journey never ends, either you have to move or try to stay with something or someone. The album is Scandinavian Soul and melancholic Americana with elements of Country that takes you to the other side of the ocean,a journey undertaken by many swedes. Alexander's own journey 15 years ago took him from Tranås,to the port city of Gothenburg, where the journey started for the many swedes who looked to America for a brighter future. "In The Grace Of the Woods" is 10 tracks that are filled with honesty and hope 10 songs about distance, loss and decisions, told with its very own unique voice.
Scanda-Soul and melancholic Americana with elements of Country
LP with full color sleeves and download code
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Band:HUNT
Album:BRANCHES
Label:LOVELY
Format:CD
Genre:Indie/Shoegaze
Branches is the majestic, yet intimate second full length album from Swedish indie band Hunt. Always embodying the deepest emotions, Hunt’s guitar driven pop leaves the listener swaying between feelings of complete forsakenness and distant hope. If the bands debut album Dark Come Sooner (Kning Disk) was the musical equivalent of being lost in a rural snow ridden landscape, with lead vocalist Susanna Brandin's voice as the sole beacon of light in the far distance, Branches is the more urban after math. The sense of being forsaken still remains, but on Branches it’s rather an eternal time lapse of cold rain drizzling against a backdrop of street lights that obstacles the journey towards that remote salvation.
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Band:HUNT
Album:BRANCHES - LP
Label:LOVELY
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Indie/Shoegaze
Branches is the majestic, yet intimate second full length album from Swedish indie band Hunt. Always embodying the deepest emotions, Hunt’s guitar driven pop leaves the listener swaying between feelings of complete forsakenness and distant hope. If the bands debut album Dark Come Sooner (Kning Disk) was the musical equivalent of being lost in a rural snow ridden landscape, with lead vocalist Susanna Brandin's voice as the sole beacon of light in the far distance, Branches is the more urban after math. The sense of being forsaken still remains, but on Branches it’s rather an eternal time lapse of cold rain drizzling against a backdrop of street lights that obstacles the journey towards that remote salvation.
LP With Download.
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Band:NIGHTMEN
Album:FIFTEEN MINUTES OF PAIN
Label:LOVELY
Format:CD
Genre:Garage Punk
Cheap beer and endless movie-nights helped Nightmen create their debut LP ”Fifteen Minutes of Pain”, a 28-minute primitive rock’n’roll-album filled with power-pop hooks and ingenious songwriting. The three vocalists sing with equal measures of punk snottiness and sugary sweetness. The diversity of having three singers makes “Fifteen Minutes of Pain” a dynamic garage-rock anthem. Nightmen are Ramones tangled up with Dead Moon and The Cars. ”Fifteen Minutes of Pain”, a twelve track killer-LP straight from the heart.
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Band:NIGHTMEN
Album:FIFTEEN MINUTES OF PAIN - LP
Label:LOVELY
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Garage Punk
Cheap beer and endless movie-nights helped Nightmen create their debut LP ”Fifteen Minutes of Pain”, a 28-minute primitive rock’n’roll-album filled with power-pop hooks and ingenious songwriting. The three vocalists sing with equal measures of punk snottiness and sugary sweetness. The diversity of having three singers makes “Fifteen Minutes of Pain” a dynamic garage-rock anthem. Nightmen are Ramones tangled up with Dead Moon and The Cars. ”Fifteen Minutes of Pain”, a twelve track killer-LP straight from the heart.
LP Format with DL code.
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Band:COSMIC ROUGH RIDERS
Album:CHROME CASSETTES
Label:YOU ARE THE COSMOS
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Psych/Folk
Daniel Wylie, doesn't have a jaggy beard and "Chrome Cassettes", wasn't recorded in a log cabin in the Appalachian Mountains. However, it was recorded on a shoestring budget, although the power and melodic beauty of this record transcends any birthing obstacles.Cosmic Rough Riders are best known for their 100,000 selling (Silver in the UK), 2001 album "Enjoy The Melodic Sunshine", which was released on Alan McGee's short lived Poptones imprint. ETMS produced two top 40 UK singles. The band appeared on Top of the Pops and performed sold out tours of the UK, Europe, Japan and the USA. Writer and producer of ETMS album, Daniel Wylie, has reactivated his original band name for this new album.Recorded at La Chunky Studios in Glasgow, "Chrome Cassettes", opens with the Neil Youngesque, balls out, "Yesterdays's a Waste of Time", a six and a half minute, melodic scorcher with stunning end solos by album co‐producer Johnny Smillie. The focus for the most part is on loud guitars and Wylie's trademark ultra tuneful melodies. There are also a few musical diversions into Beck style fucked up acoustic folk.Daniel Wylie still records all his new song ideas and demos straight to C90 Chrome Cassettes, on an old 80s ghetto blaster and that's where the idea for the album title came from.
'...10 slices of pop perfection' (Americana-uk.com)
, **** (Shindig! Magazine)
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Band:BLUE ASH
Album:HEARTS AND ARROWS
Label:YOU ARE THE COSMOS
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:POWER POP
28 tracks first time on Double Vinyl & Bonus EP !
Formed in Ohio in 1969 and sharing a love of the hard harmonies of British Invasion acts and the jangle and chime of West Coast folk‐rock, Blue Ash have tended to be overlooked as the powerpop progenitors they undoubtedly were, being less glamorously doomed than Big Star and less driven into the popular consciousness than The Raspberries or Badfinger...
" Listening is like falling in love with music all over again. Thrill to the diamond‐hard shimmer of 'Plain To See' and 'Things Have Changed' and wonder how the hell the band weren't massive; dig the sheen and shine of the Pippermint Studio Demos and fantasise about how many more of the 200+ leftlovers might be as good. But most of all, buy this thing. Right now! " -5/5 - Shindig! Magazine
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Band:ANTON BARBEAU
Album:MAGIC ACT - LP
Label:YOU ARE THE COSMOS
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Psych/Folk
ANTON BARBEAU PLAYS “PRE‐APOCALYPTIC PSYCHEDELIC POP.” HE’S A TAURUS, BORN IN SACRAMENTO AND NOW LIVING BY A CANAL IN BERLIN. HE’S MADE SOMETHING LIKE 20 ALBUMS AND HAS WORKED WITH MEMBERS OF XTC, THE SOFT BOYS, THE BEVIS FROND, CAKE, THE LOUD FAMILY... JULIAN COPE GOT HIM STONED IN CROYDON ONCE. HIS NEW ALBUM IS 'MAGIC ACT'.
Some of the songs for ‘Magic Act’ were written for a third album for Three Minute Tease, Barbeau’s UK band with former Soft Boys/Egyptians Andy Metcalfe and Morris Windsor. A sudden case of 'artistic differences' meant a change in course and Barbeau found himself making a solo record all in multiple countries with all sorts of people...Colin Moulding from XTC played bass on one track, Martin Gordon from Sparks on another...
"Brain‐burrowing melody and mystical psych‐guitar fuzz" —Spin Magazine
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Band:RENO BO
Album:LESSONS FROM A SHOOTING STAR - LP
Label:YOU ARE THE COSMOS
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Psych/Garage
Lessons From A Shooting Star is the new album from Nashville based, New York born songwriter, musician and producer Reno Bo. 2010 saw the release of and a tour in support of his debut album Happenings And Other Things. Before moving to Nashville TN, Bo spent the previous several years on the road playing bass with fellow New Yorkers Albert Hammond Jr (The Strokes) and The Mooney Suzuki and as leader and songwriter of The Fame (whose name Lady Gaga is rumored to have used as inspiration for her album of the same moniker.)
Lessons From a Shooting Star, an album that mixes the hooks and harmonies of classic pop music with the size, sweep and swagger of rock & roll. It's Bo's second solo record, with the multi‐instrumentalist handling virtually every job — from the songwriting to the bass guitar to the vocals to the production — himself. For a musician who'd spent the past decade touring the world as a member of other people's bands, Lessons From a Shooting Starwas a chance to focus inward. It was a chance to make music that was completely his.
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Band:TONY HAZZARD
Album:SINGS TONY HAZZARD - LP
Label:YOU ARE THE COSMOS
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Psych/Folk
TONY HAZZARD began his music career as a solo singer, featuring in classic sixties television shows such as Ready Steady Go and Thank Your Lucky Stars, but it soon became clear that his forte was songwriting and, during a three year period, from 1966 to 1969, he wrote six top twenty hits in the UK and Europe for the likes of Manfred Mann (Fox On The Run & Ha Ha Said The Clown), The Hollies (Listen To Me), The Tremeloes (Hello World), Lulu (Me The Peaceful Heart), and Herman's Hermits (You Won't Be Leaving). He also had songs recorded by Gene Pitney, Simon Dupree and The Big Sound , Nana Mouskouri , Cliff Richard, Hall & Oates, The Yardbirds …
In 1969 he recorded his first album, mainly a collection of the demos of the hits, entitled “Tony Hazzard sings Tony Hazzard”...Reissued here on 180g vinyl LP.
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Band:ANDY REED
Album:AN INTRODUCTION - LP
Label:YOU ARE THE COSMOS
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Psych/Garage
Andy Reed is a singer/songwriter/producer from Bay City, MI (USA).
'An Introduction To Andy Reed' is a collection of songs from Reeds 15 year recording career.
Includes 'Relay', BEST EP 2015 on Powerpopaholic.com (USA).
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Band:VARIOUS ARTISTS
Album:BAROQUE WORLD VOL 2
Label:YOU ARE THE COSMOS
Format:Vinyl 7 Inch
Genre:Psych/Garage
Compilation 45 rpm Limited to 500 numbered copies.
TRACKLIST: A1: THE KAROVAS MILKSHAKE (Russia): 'Easy For You' A2: BRONCO BULLFROG (UK): 'Rocking Horse Mender' B1: THE MADCAPS (FRA): 'Emily Vandelay' B2: THE WELLGREEN (UK): 'Ants
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Band:THE CAROUSELS
Album:LORD SPEED MY HURRICANE
Label:YOU ARE THE COSMOS
Format:Vinyl 7 Inch
Genre:Psych/Folk
So who on earth are The Carousels? Hailing from the distillery town of Keith in north‐east Scotland, best known as the home of Chivas Regal whisky, the band have existed in various shapes and forms since 2010. The Carousels formed out of necessity; to carry on in the fine tradition of bands from their area. They come from a place where the likes of The Byrds, Gram Parsons and Gene Clark are still as important to people as they always were and this shines through in their music. Indeed, the great art of the melody, the soaring harmony and the chiming jangle of the twelve‐string have been passed down, taught and copied like some kind of ancient musical recipe. It's true, The Carousels exist in many ways like a collective, with band members old and new dropping in and out whenever suits. Once a Carousel, always a Carousel, if you will. The band's debut LP 'Sweet Northern Light' followed on from the well‐received 'Call Along The Coast' EP and was written and recorded in their hometown and mastered by Mike Denton of The Lucid Dream. It also fell on the back of a host of successful high‐profile gigs, not least a sell‐ out show at The Cavern Club in Liverpool as part of 2012's International Pop Overthrow Festival. Furthermore, a feature on that performance appeared in the local Liverpool press, where they received a nod of approval from Barry Sutton of The La's, one of their all‐time favourite bands. The Carousels' sets at the legendary Northern Star Records Weekenders were well received and new LP 'Love Changes Like The Seasons' (2014). And now, two new tracks included on a beautiful 7” Vinyl!
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Band:DR COSMOS TAPE
Album:COMMUNITY GARDEN POLITICS
Label:YOU ARE THE COSMOS
Format:Vinyl 7 Inch
Genre:Psych/Garage
From Glasgow, Scotland, Joe Kane and Stu Kidd have the magic potion for perfect Pop, finally composing this century's "Good Vibrations" with A‐side "Community Garden Politics" and Powerpop B‐side "Pig in a Pen."
"The Beach Boys, Todd Rundgren, Brian Eno and McCartney II inform the mix, but that's just the tip of the iceberg. Essential. 4/5." ‐Jon "Mojo" Mills‐ Shindig Magazine
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Band:FLASHBACK MAGAZINE
Album:ISSUE 8
Label:FLASHBACK
Format:MAGAZINE
Genre:Psych/Garage Reissues
Flashback covers overlooked 60s and 70s music in depth, with expert writing, original research and many rare and unseen images. Issue 8 contents include: THE KOOBAS This Liverpudlian quartet released numerous 45s, toured with the Beatles, gigged with Jimi Hendrix, the Who and Pink Floyd, made a fine album in 1968 and became stars in Switzerland - but success at home proved hard to find. Richard Morton Jack tells their story for the first time. CATAPILLA Robert Calvert recalls the short and intense career of Catapilla, with contributions from his bandmates Hugh Eaglestone, Brian Hanson and Ralph Rolinson THE HUMAN BEAST Though this Edinburgh trio disowned their weird, hard-rocking LP, it has gone on to become a firm favourite around the world. Richard Morton Jack speaks to them TAMAM SHUD Tamam Shud was one of the first Australian bands to embrace late 60s acid culture. Ian McFarlane tells their story THE PARLOUR BAND This Jersey quintet made one of the most highly regarded progressive pop albums of the early 70s. Austin Matthews gives their full history BRITISH PRIVATE PRESSINGS Fifty of the best privately released albums from the heyday of British underground music REVIEWS Thorough coverage of recent CDs, LPs and books, taking in household names (The Beatles, David Bowie, Van Morrison), cult heroes (Captain Beefheart, Procol Harum, Francoise Hardy) and ultraobscurities (Robbie The Werewolf, Fuchsia, Lucifer).
Avaialble at all good independent stores and specialist mail order outlets now !
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Band:SOON
Album:SOON VOL 1
Label:TEMPLE OF TORTUROUS
Format:CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
With its debut LP, SOON forges an unlikely hybrid of dark doom and heavy psychedelics, conjuring low‐end storms and balancing mettle with melodic finesse. Rather than using low, slow riffs as dredging sinkholes, the Chapel Hill, N.C. quartet keeps its strong forward pushes devoid of any dead weight. Recorded with engineer Kris Hilbert (Torch Runner, Between the Buried And Me, The Body) at the helm, SOON, whose members also contribute to The Love Language, Bitter Resolve and Grohg, draws from a deep well of influence and experience in crafting this intricate balance of power and grace, without sacrificing its titanic heft.
RIYL Pallbearer / Agalloch...
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Band:MOLOKEN
Album:ALL IS LEFT TO SEE - LP
Label:TEMPLE OF TORTUROUS
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
After 4 years of band’s successful 2 full-length Rural, the Umeå (Sweden) post hardcore band comes back with their new fulllength All is Left to See, based on the lyrical concept of 'Mörkrets Kärna’ (Swedish for “the Dark Core”), the album showcases the band most experimental album, Moloken clearly has no intention of being trapped in any corner of genre-fascism, but rather working with an "anything goes” attitude. All Is Left To See was mostly recorded live at the famous Tonteknik Studio in their home town Umeå. This is a self-lived experience of true human darkness when the breakdown of a loved one spiralled down a very dark path, acting out in an aggressive, depressed, paranoid and manipulative behavior. Could this be the end? All is left to see…
"Subliminal Hymns offers a largely unbroken, very familiar Neurosis chug” - Decibel
Deluxe LP with full color inner printed sleeve
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Band:GYPSY CHIEF GOLIATH
Album:CITIZENS OF NOWHERE
Label:PITCH BLACK
Format:CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Canadian Stoner Metallers GYPSY CHIEF GOLIATH are back with their third offering, three years after their superb "New Machines of the Night".
A smoke riff masterpiece that tells tales of the apocalypse, death, space, time travel, and the almighty highway! "Citizens Of Nowhere" was recorded 100% analog and brings you in from the opening track to the close. Their truly unique style of stoner metal, which includes three guitarists and a harmonica, is set to captivate audiences once again!
For fans of: Clutch, Down, Orange Goblin, The Sword, Sixty Watt Shaman...
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Band:ALPHAXONE
Album:ECHOES FROM OUTER SILENCE
Label:Cryo Chamber
Format:CD
Genre:Drone/Ambient
Cryo Chamber welcomes Iranian Mehdi Saleh from Alphaxone back with his 4th album on the label.
A space voyage ambient album of drone mixed with electronic overtones and a healthy dose of field recordings. Echoes from Outer Silence take us through space and to the archaic signals of civilizations beyond the stars, Mehdi this time packing some serious analogue warmth to his droney dreamscapes. He once again polishes up his already splendid sound quality and excellent production to reach new heights. This is an album best enjoyed when relaxing with a cup of freeze dried coffe in zero G.
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Band:DRONNY DARKO
Album:NEUROPLASTICITY
Label:Cryo Chamber
Format:CD
Genre:Drone/Ambient
Dronny Darko's second solo full length album on Cryo Chamber is an introverted journey through the psyche of the listener. From primal and space ambient sounding drones, to something constructed in a laboratory, this album is a mix of drones both deep and detailed with tiny sounds for those that pay attention.
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Band:GODBODY DISCONNECT
Album:DREDGE PORTALS
Label:Cryo Chamber
Format:CD
Genre:Drone/Ambient
God Body Disconnect debuts on Cryo Chamber with Dredge Portals, an emotional roller coaster of an album that reaches through several genres of music to serve us a strong narrative of storytelling.
Using everything from electronics, guitars to field recordings and vocals this is an incredibly diverse album not to be missed...
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Band:PROTOU
Album:LOST HERE
Label:Cryo Chamber
Format:CD
Genre:Drone/Ambient
After her split debut Earth Songs with Dronny Darko in 2015, protoU now returns with her solo debut album Lost Here. An album that takes place in realms beyond reality, deep dreams of fragmented visions tied together with a sonic backdrop full of low key drone work and accentuated with field recordings.
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Band:SIJ AND TEXTERE ORIS
Album:REFLECTIONS UNDER THE SKY
Label:Cryo Chamber
Format:CD
Genre:Drone/Ambient
A collaboration between Moscow based Textere Oris and Ukrainian project SiJ comes this field recording focused release. A merger of warm tape noise fused recordings and analogue acoustics, it paints a larger than life picture of nature with a warm but at times brooding backdrop with and overlay of sacral vocals.
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Band:VARIOUS ARTISTS
Album:BEAT CANCER VOL 3
Label:Analogue Trash
Format:3CD
Genre:Dance/Electronica
Volume 3 of the acclaimed and successful charity compilation Beat:Cancer – now expanded to three discs featuring the cream of the international alternative and electronic music communities.
Contributors include high profile electronic artists such as Syd.31, Freakangel, Ruinizer, Dirty K. Sleepless Droids and many more.
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Band:DUB INVADERS VOL 111 PART 1
Album:DUB INVADERS VOL 111 PART 1
Label:JARRING EFFECTS
Format:Vinyl EP
Genre:Reggae/Dub/Ska
Dub Invaders announces the release of 4 E.P.s and one LP in 2016, and the collective strengthens its presence within the ever growing dub scene. Dub scene activists since the early 2000’s, High Tone has continuously evolved their music throughout their albums, constantly exploring new soundscapes, ready to free themselves from their own codes to create an hybrid and modern sound. Founded in 2009 with the release of a first opus and a sound-system tour, the entity Dub Invaders enables the members of High Tone crew to revive the original spirit of a culture that shaped, influenced and inspired them from their start. In 2012, a second album comes out, full of outstanding featurings (El Fata, Zeb Mc Queen, Solo Banton, Echo Ranks). The collective then embarks upon a French tour alongside the O.B.F. and Dub Addict sound systems, followed by some international gigs (Dour Festival, Tokyo Dub, St Petersburg,…). Of course, High Tone are anything but beginners, as, some sound-system-stamped escapades, that naturally paved the way to the Dub Invaders project, can already be found among their extensive discography.
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Band:CORINNE WEST
Album:STARLIGHT HIGHWAY
Label:BURNSIDE
Format:CD
Genre:Alt-Country / Americana
It is said that whisky poets & angels sing through a voice of velvet & grit; songstress Corinne West’s 5th album has harnessed the elements with poetry and soul-stirring compositions. Deep Americana roots formed by her nomadic history radiate throughout her respected reputation in the global acoustic-roots scene. “I wanted to create a body of songs that moved my music into places unfamiliar to me, while paying tribute to the music I have done in the past. This influenced my instrumental decisions; organ, acoustic rock, heavy harmonies, (Kelly Joe Phelps) the rock solid drums, (Ricky Fataar), laid back ballads, (Mike Marshall)… I wanted to play with many flavors, and didn’t hold back on any spices while in the sonic kitchen.”
UK Tour this Spring!
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Band:TIM LOUD
Album:WHAT AM I ?
Label:AAAHH REAL RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:SINGER/SONGWRITER
Leeds based singer-songwriter has been around for a while, formerly in well-regarded folk-punks BOOTSCRAPER. This is his debut solo album, following on from a couple of EPs.
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Band:SIDDHARTA
Album:ULTRA
Label:NIKA RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:Rock
Siddharta rules the skies of rock in Slovenia from their meteoric rise in 1995, to their newly released album “Ultra”. After 20 years of presence, their eyes are still firmly set on the future. Siddharta formed in 1995 and skyrocketed onto the Slovenian rock scene with their debut ID (1999). The following album Nord (2001) topped the success of its predecessor, while Rh‐ (2003) absolutely obliterated any competition and crowned its presence with a record‐holding concert at Ljubljana’s central stadium. The band changed their course with Petrolea’s (2006) return to more basic sound. This reached its peak with 2009 release; Saga (produced by producer Ross Robinson). This was followed by 2011 release VI (also produced by Robinson), which was recorded live at a stadium concert in Ljubljana. In 2015 the band released Infra, 1st half of a double album and 2nd part Ultra, each album holding 10 songs; 1 for each year they are present). Infra and Ultra received great public & critical acclaim and is considered a “return to form” album with “eyes well fixed on the future”.
Ultra is the other half of the double story, the story of two double albums with twenty unique tracks which announce twenty years of Siddharta.
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Band:SIDDHARTA
Album:INFRA
Label:NIKA RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:Rock
Siddharta formed in 1995 and skyrocketed onto the Slovenian rock scene with their debut ID (1999). The following album Nord (2001) topped the success of its predecessor, while Rh‐ (2003) absolutely obliterated any competition and crowned its presence with a record‐holding concert at Ljubljana’s central stadium. The band changed their course with Petrolea’s (2006) return to more basic sound. This reached its peak with 2009 release; Saga (produced by producer Ross Robinson). This was followed by 2011 release VI (also produced by Robinson), which was recorded live at a stadium concert in Ljubljana. In 2015 the band released Infra, 1st half of a double album and 2nd part Ultra, each album holding 10 songs; 1 for each year they are present). Infra and Ultra received great public & critical acclaim and is considered a “return to form” album with “eyes well fixed on the future”.
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Band:KNOCK OUT KAINE
Album:CRUEL BRITANNIA
Label:Rocksector
Format:CD
Genre:Classic Rock/Metal
Lincoln-based rockers Knock Out Kaine deliver the 'Cruel Britannia' EP, a stunning follow-up to their 2nd album 'Rise of the Electric Jester' once again absorbing influences from support shows with Status Quo, Love/Hate & Adler's Appetite & brandishing a fine version of Steve Earle's 'Copperhead Road'.
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Band:BRAIN DAMAGE
Album:THE DOWN FALL
Label:MY KINGDOM MUSIC
Format:CD
Genre:Thrash/Crossover Metal
BRAINDAMAGE return on the musical scene 7 years since their last release, after being one of the greatest Italian Metal bands over the 90’s, and come back with one of the most innovative and original acts of the today Metal outline.
“The Downfall” is a futurist, abrasive and visionary output in the best Avantgardish Metal tradition of VOIVOD and KILLING JOKE, appealing to the modern-ish last decade’s growing Post-Thrashy audience.
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Band:DAXX AND ROXANNE
Album:4X4
Label:Justice Brothers
Format:CD
Genre:Classic Rock/Metal
Swiss rockers Daxx & Roxane have been gaining fans and plaudits since moving to London in 2013. They drink from the same well of hard-rock invention as the likes of Motley Crue, Whitesnake and Skid Row. The Montreaux four-piece are Ced Pfister (vocals, bass), Cal Wymann (lead guitar), Simon Golaz (rhythm guitar, harmonica) and Luca Senaldi (drums).
The 4 track E.P entitled ‘4X4’ recorded at Resident Studios - produced by David Donley (Stereophonics, Adam Ant) and engineered by Simon Small (KilliT) - features the harmonic guitar crunching ‘Sugar Rush’; the infectious, fist pumping, ‘Wrong Side’; the balls to the wall rock & roll stomper ‘Girl Next Door’; and the anthemic ‘Too Hot To Love’. After performing to a full house at the Scala in London in January for the Polish charity, Hurricane of Hearts / Great Orchestra Christmas Charity, and at The Dublin Castle and The Barfly, the band are set to hit the road in support of their debut EP in late March and April, playing various cities throughout the UK.
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Band:GOT NUTHIN
Album:LAST RECALL
Label:DEMONS RUN AMOK
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
In early 2012 members of the Berlin Bands “All for Revenge”, “Denny Crane” and “Tonedown” joined forces to form GOT NUTHIN’. In summer 2014 GN recorded 10 brand new songs in berlins well-known Daily Hero Studio for their upcoming full-length record on Demons Run Amok Entertainment, coming in early 2016.
Expect some powerful European Hardcore not unlike Rykers, Coldside, Madball and the likes
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Band:FORTRESS BLACK
Album:INRI
Label:DEMONS RUN AMOK
Format:CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Fortress Black and Demons Run Amok Entertainment join forces again!! We are more than happy to have Stuttgart negativ outcasts and their godless alliance under our belt! I.N.R.I will be released by the end of the year. From cold to frost….expect some brutal, frostbitten, blackened hyms... Unique blackend, hateful and Anti-NSBM Hardcore/Metal masterpiece. Stuttgart Negativ is back on the map!
For fans of Weg einer Freiheit, Thränenkind, Deafheaven, All Out War, Celeste, Mantar, Watain and the likes
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Band:FORTRESS BLACK
Album:INRI - LP
Label:DEMONS RUN AMOK
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Fortress Black and Demons Run Amok Entertainment join forces again!! We are more than happy to have Stuttgart negativ outcasts and their godless alliance under our belt! I.N.R.I will be released by the end of the year. From cold to frost….expect some brutal, frostbitten, blackened hyms... Unique blackend, hateful and Anti-NSBM Hardcore/Metal masterpiece. Stuttgart Negativ is back on the map!
LP for fans of Weg einer Freiheit, Thränenkind, Deafheaven, All Out War, Celeste, Mantar, Watain and the likes
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Band:STILL ILL
Album:BUILDING THE BEAST
Label:DEMONS RUN AMOK
Format:CD
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
After many shows and festival appearances with bands like Madball, Nasty, No Turning Back, Born From Pain, Desolated, Malevolence and many more,now they thought the time has come to release the first full-length record called “Building The Beast”!
"Building The Beast" is a concept record being about how society and people are turning into things they once fought. The metaphorical beast is built by each and everyone of us, guided by greed, malice and anger. Most of the songs are about some specific topics which are in our point of view main problems of the modern world. Misguiding media, abusement of power, racism and facism, people caught in despair and being without hope. In some songs and somewhere between the lines there is still a glance of hope and some points where we could still turn those things around - if we act before it is too late.
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Band:STILL ILL
Album:BUILDING THE BEAST - LP
Label:DEMONS RUN AMOK
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
After many shows and festival appearances with bands like Madball, Nasty, No Turning Back, Born From Pain, Desolated, Malevolence and many more,now they thought the time has come to release the first full-length record called “Building The Beast”!
For fans of ALPHA & OMEGA, NO WARNING, LIFELESS, SICK OF IT ALL, CRO-MAGS...
Coloured Vinyl available/Gatefold Sleeve.
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Band:WORLD NEGATION
Album:IMBALANCE
Label:DEMONS RUN AMOK
Format:CD
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
World Negation is a heavy Hardcore band from the Southwest of Germany, influenced by present heavy hardcore bands as well as 90's NYHC. Formed in May 2013, the band refined its style rapidly and brought us their self-titled 4-song EP in September ´13. No fuss, no frills, no hype, just relentless Hardcore defined by self-esteem and human conflict. Being in bands of different styles for years, the members of World Negation formed an aural spirit in a unique sound – standing strong against the high tide of adaption and suppression.
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Band:WORLD NEGATION
Album:IMBALANCE - LP
Label:DEMONS RUN AMOK
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
World Negation is a heavy Hardcore band from the Southwest of Germany, influenced by present heavy hardcore bands as well as 90's NYHC. Formed in May 2013, the band refined its style rapidly and brought us their self-titled 4-song EP in September ´13. No fuss, no frills, no hype, just relentless Hardcore defined by self-esteem and human conflict. Being in bands of different styles for years, the members of World Negation formed an aural spirit in a unique sound – standing strong against the high tide of adaption and suppression. LP Format.
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Band:UADA
Album:DEVOID OF LIGHT
Label:Eisenwald
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
From the darkness, UADA (meaning haunted in latin) emerges breathing the spirit of the original 90’s Black Metal wave. Since 2014, this Portland, Oregon four-piece has used a unique approach to combine raw black metal and spectral melodies. April 8th 2016 manifests the release of their debut album “Devoid of Light”, it rekindles a flame and resurrects spirits from the past in pure blackness. Self-recorded by the band & then mastered by Joel Grind (Toxic Holocaust). It features the artwork of Kris Verwimp and band photography by Peter Beste. In support of this new album, Uada is confirmed to play the Northwestern Black Circle Festival again, this time with Absu and will mark the kick off date for a west coast US tour.
“Uada is one of the most interesting & exciting bands coming out of Portland these days” - John Haughm (AGALLOCH)
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Band:HOLY DRAGONS
Album:CIVILIZATOR
Label:PITCH BLACK
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
Kazakhstan's ultimate metal bands returns with their... FOURTEENTH album! "Civilizator" can best be described as an overview of the band's stylistic evolution during its 20-year history, showcasing the various dimensions of the band’s sound. This is pure classic old school metal with a strong influence of the British and German schools of metal with shredding guitar part, some acoustic parts and powerful guitar riffs.
For fans of: Gamma Ray, Crimson Glory, Savatage, Primal Fear, Helloween, Dragonforce
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Band:HOWLS OF EBB
Album:CURUS IMPASSE THE PENDLOMIC VOWS
Label:I VOIDHANGER
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
Within a very short period of time, Howls Of Ebb have spawned a creative surge of ominous might. Under the sign of I, Voidhanger Records, came 2014's debut “Vigils of the 3rd Eye” LP, and the wide brave expanse of 2015's “The Marrow Veil” MLP. These transcendental relics have surely left no doubts: this, in true form, is an incorporeal fetid and morbid darkness; yet, left to burn a long and wicked light. And now, with immense pride and fortune, we introduce “Cursus Impasse: The Pendlomic Vows” LP! We welcome you to inhale this horrifying drug while gazing upon the visionary Cover painting by Italian master Agostino Arrivabene.
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Band:NEAR
Album:OWN SUN
Label:DE TENEBRARUM PRINCIPIO
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
There are dark feelings that just a raw and vicious formula can emphasize, the true black metal has been too long a label abused by project just repeating some external clichés. Near are part of the Dolomitic Northern-Italian Black Metal scene, an heritage of acts like Tenebrae in Perpetuum, Beatrik, Lorn, deeply connected to the territory, keeping the black flame burning into isolated lands. Own Sun stays, as the immortal feeling, manifesting a ’90 inspired album that will leave a further mark into the glorification in the dark side of nature, the cold winds blowing into the uncertainty of feeble human life.
For fans of Darkthrone, Gorgoroth, Burzum
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Band:DISTRUZIONE
Album:ENDOGENA
Label:JOLLY ROGER
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
Originally released in 1996 only on Cd and distribuited by (at the time) major Polygram and impossible to find nowadays, shocked extreme underground scene confirming good impressions of debut "Olocausto Cerebrale", thanks to a furious and impact sound produced by Omar Pedrini (Timoria) and supported by italian lyrics, trade-mark of the band since the beginning. Earth-shaking and destructive, with fast tempos and solos alternated with slower and evocative parts, surrounded by lyrics about madness, death and darkness that make "Endogena" a catacombal album, primoridal in its violence. Absolutely a cult album for all thrash-death maniacs consecrated Distruzione as one of the best extreme underground bands of '90s. Completely remastered and available again on Cd and for the very first time on vinyl.
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Band:DISTRUZIONE
Album:ENDOGENA - LP
Label:JOLLY ROGER
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Death Metal
Originally released in 1996 only on Cd and distribuited by (at the time) major Polygram and impossible to find nowadays, shocked extreme underground scene confirming good impressions of debut "Olocausto Cerebrale", thanks to a furious and impact sound produced by Omar Pedrini (Timoria) and supported by italian lyrics, trade-mark of the band since the beginning. Earth-shaking and destructive, with fast tempos and solos alternated with slower and evocative parts, surrounded by lyrics about madness, death and darkness that make "Endogena" a catacombal album, primoridal in its violence. Absolutely a cult album for all thrash-death maniacs consecrated Distruzione as one of the best extreme underground bands of '90s. Completely remastered and available again on Cd and for the very first time on vinyl @ 150 copies only.
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Band:BLOOD
Album:O AGIOS PETHANE
Label:DUNKELHEIT
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
One of the darkest albums of the German Death Metal Underground is finally being repressed: ‘O Agios Pethane’ by BLOOD, which is THE reference value from 1993. This hybrid of Death Metal and Grind, combined with a little Thrash Metal and Punk is a benchmark of brutal music: a twisted mood, neck-twisting blast passages, sick bass-solos and bellowing vocals are mixed into one single dark brew – an album that deserves its credit as a legend. BLOOD is the oldest German Grind band (since 1986!), and amongst acts such as NAPALM DEATH, EXTREME NOISE TERROR and AGTHOCLES one of the oldest bands still in the game! BLOOD never sold their ideals and their soul – this you can experience listening to ‘O Agios Pethane’! The legend as a digipak with an eight-page Booklet! The first 100 copies also include a poster in A2 format and a logo button.
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Band:NODE
Album:COWARDS EMPIRE
Label:PUNISHMENT 18
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
The band was formed in 1994 by the guitarist Steve Minelli. The style they played at that time was a mix between death-metal and grind-core enriched by very good technical and song writing arrangiaments. In September 1995 the Node line up was completely turned over, with the new vocalist/guitarist Gary D’Eramo, new bass player Klaus Mariani, new drummer John Manti and Steve Minelli of course, Node released in December 1995 the second demo “Ask”. “Sweatshops”, this is the name of their 2nd full lenght, was out in February 2002 through Scarlet. The style seems to be a mix between the wide classic/heavy atmospheres with an obsessive and aggressive interpretation of the north-european death metal. In August they are ready to record a new album: “Das Kapital”. This album was a big surprise for all (fans & critics). In the beginning of 2005, band decided to enter the studio anyway, without the label’ support… Recording the fourth album, still at the Underground Studio. “As God Kills” is the name of the fourth full length album was mastered by Goran Finnberg (The Mastering Room), it was published by the german label Massacre Records on 20 May 2006. They soon start working on their 5th album. “In The End Everything is a Gag”, the new chapter in Node’s adventure is expected to be released on January 2010.
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Band:MINDWARS
Album:SWORN TO SECRECY
Label:PUNISHMENT 18
Format:CD
Genre:Thrash/Crossover Metal
Mindwars was created in the Fall of 2013 by the desire of two individuals who wanted to bring the sound of metal from the 1980s to the current power of 2014. Mike Alvord formerly of HOLY TERROR and Roby Vitari formerly of JESTER BEAST, met by chance in 1989 when HOLY TERROR was touring Europe in support of their 1988 release Mind Wars. Roby originally from Southern Italy in the region of Calabria discovered that he had similar roots as Mike, being that his grandparents are from the same region. Approximately 25 years later Mike and Roby reconnected through the internet and discussed creating something musically that they both believe has been lost. Debut album, titled “The Enemy Within”, was released in 2014 by Punishment 18 Records as well.
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Band:MEGASCAVENGER
Album:AS DYSTOPIA BECKONS
Label:SELFMADEGOD
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
Third album of this Swedish one-man death metal band made by Rogga Johansson (Paganizer, Ribspreader, Putrevore, Bone Gnawer, Skeletal Spectre, Revolting, The Grotesquery, Those Who Bring The Torture)
Includes guest appearances from members of such bands as Hail of Bullets, Echelon, Benediction, Bolt Thrower, Fleshcrawl, Entrails, Massacre, Mantas, Bone Gnawer, The Grotesquery, Sinister, Crypticus…
For fans of Bolt Thrower, Asphyx, Grave, Dismember and Fear Factory, The Berzerker, Godflesh
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Band:MORTIFICATION
Album:SCROLLS OF THE MEGILLOTH - LP
Label:SOUNDMASS
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Death Metal
Soundmass has gone back to the early years - releasing Mortification's 1992 album “Scrolls of the Megilloth” on VINYL. Hailed by many as the band’s finest hour, this album sees them perfecting a brutal death/grind style that has stood the test of time, even 24 years after its initial release. In talking of the classics of death metal, “Scrolls of the Megilloth” is one of those albums that always seems to get mentioned. Heavy, downtuned, fast, chaotic, technical - an extreme metal onslaught with street level credibility.
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Band:NOCTURNAL
Album:VIOLENT REVENGE REISSUE
Label:ARCHAIC SOUND
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
Official reissue of Teutonic Black/Thrash Metal classics. Licensed from Displeased Records for worldwide distribution
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Band:BESTIAL INVASION
Album:ACT OF RETRIBUTION
Label:ARCHAIC SOUND
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
Technical Thrash Metal sensation from Ukraine. New band of ex-VIOLENT OMEN bass player with guest appearance of POLTERGEIST, DESTRUCTION, RAVEN, ANACRUSIS, WATCHTOWER and ALBEZ DUZ musicians. Must have for fans of REALM, ATHEIST, TOXIK, WATCHTOWER, CORONER and MEKONG DELTA
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Band:KILLUS
Album:ULTRAZOMBIES
Label:ART GATES
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
Killus are the leader Industrial Metal outfit in Spain, with 4 albums in their long career, the band started devastating the European Metal scene with their latest opus "Feel The Monster", obtaining outstanding reviews and a more than great response from their fans and specialized press.
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Band:SILENT IMAGES
Album:KNIGHTFALL
Label:ART GATES
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
This Extreme Progressive Metal act was formed in 2011 in Malmo, southern Sweden, encompassing members from Argentina, Bolivia and Singapore. The members’ distinctively broad experiences in Rock, Metal, Jazz and Latin proved invaluable in adding a unique taste to the band’s sound. In 2013 Silent Images released their self-titled debut EP, presenting it in several gigs locally and nationally, receiving a great feedback. After this period Mithun, David, Manolo and Renzo are ready to unveil more details about their new album, Knightfall, which will be released through Art Gates Records worldwide in March 2016.
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Band:HERESY OF DREAMS
Album:ANTE LE BESTIA
Label:ART GATES
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
The astonishing combination of Classic Heavy Metal and the young spirit of the band results in this whirlwind called Heresy of Dreams. After supporting well known acts of the Heavy Metal scene, such as Astral Doors, Striker, Gigatron, Zenobia, Killus or Witchburn, Heresy of Dreams are right now prepared to released their new LP “Ante La Bestia”.
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Band:MARTYRIUM
Album:DESTINY WORE A BONDAGE MASK
Label:ART GATES
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
Atmospheric Extreme Metal outfit MartYriuM was formed in 1999 in Malta. The style diversity of the band contains Industrial elements combined with Black and Death Metal influences. Each song has a unique dramatic passage to set up a dark mood, along with brutal growls, clean vocal decorations shredding riffs and occult lyrical concepts. MartYriuM appear on stage as a female fronted band, behind pale corpse paint portraying an image of modern black metal subculture. What captivates the people during a MartYriuM gig is the hellish chaos spawned from stage, invoked by the coming together of a restless energy united by each member. Rotting Christ, Purgatory, Eluveite, Cadaveria among many others are some of the artists this infernal outfit toured with, acquiring a noteworthy experience in their live shows. With a large discography behind them: ‘Withering In Voluptuous Embrace’ (2000), ‘Carnage Lit By Darkness’ (2005), ‘ Awakening The Ancient’ (2010), MarTyriuM is ready to release their fourth and new album “Destiny Wore A Bondage Mask” through Art Gates Records worldwide in March 2016.
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Band:STEIGNYR
Album:THE PROPHECY OF THE HIGHLANDS
Label:ART GATES
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
Epic Celtic Death Metal from Barcelona...
For fans of Eluveite, Amon Amarth, etc.
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Band:STANGALA
Album:KLANV
Label:FINISTERIAN DEAD END
Format:CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Reminiscent of psychedelic rock, black metal and traditional Celtic music, Stangala’s tunes are set to take you for a very special trip through hazy worlds, inhabited by mystical creatures from the Breton folklore. Born in Kemper in 2007, the band released a first grimoire, “Boued Tousek Hag Traoù Mat All”, with Solitude Productions in 2011, followed by the psyched-up split album “Kreiz-Breizh Sessions” with fellow druids Stonebirds in 2012. Four years later, the duo sets the scene for “Klañv”, a dark, enraged and wildly original musical statement to be released with Finisterian Dead End in March 2016.
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Band:POSTMORTEM
Album:GOD WITH HORNS
Label:GREAT DANE
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
After 2 EP in 2000 and 2001, Alsatians Post Mortem decided to take a break and we talk about a huge break, as this first album "God With Horns" is only coming out now, 15 years later. We are in front of a block of creative and merciless Death Metal, which alternates ultra unhappy passages and down-tempo moments, with all the same, a marked taste for the fight! With a good airy and efficient production, Post-Mortem reminds us their presence through more than 30 minutes of remarkable Death Metal. For fans of Mercyless, Avulsed, Loudblast, Aggressor.
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Band:POWER FUEL
Album:TRIBUTE TO SLAYER
Label:GREAT DANE
Format:CD
Genre:Thrash/Crossover Metal
10 hits from Thrash giants Slayer covered in a ultra faithful way except for the voice which is clearly eyeing more towards Death Metal. For the rest this is Slayer with a more hard-hiiting production. Thrash 'Till Death! For fans of Slayer.
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Band:CATARRHAL
Album:FLESHGRAVE
Label:GREAT DANE
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
Reissue of Belgians Catarrhal "Fleshgrave" out in 2013 added with the complete 2004 demo "Beyond Onirism". The quintet is composed of jokers evolving in other extreme formations there like Livor Mortis, Bursting, Devoured or Gargaryss. In short, this is far from a bunch of penguins! Musically this is a very wild Death Metal of Floridian inspiration which is offered here, so be ready for their riffs straight to the point and frantic rhythms and a voice straight out of the nearest vault. Formidable efficiency. For fans of Monstrosity, Malevolent Creation, Vomitory, Fleshcrawl, Sinister.
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Band:VIDARGANGR
Album:A WORLD THAT HAS TO BE OPPOSED
Label:WAR ANTHEM
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
A rancorous nihilistic ascension into a black sun vortex. Uncompromising furious black metal opening a maelstrom into other spheres of sense. VIDARGÄNGR stands for nothing.
Furious black metal for fans of Watain, Celtic Frost and early Darkthrone...
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Band:ON OFF
Album:BORDERLINE
Label:BUIL2KILL
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
Classic Hard’n’Roll, Rock’n’Roll influences like AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, Thin Lizzy, Rolling Stones and Airbourne
Recorded and mixed by Paolo Dal Broi and Giorgio Andreoli. Mastered by Alberto Cutolo (Massive Arts Studios – Milano)
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Band:PERSEUS
Album:A TALE WHISPERED IN THE NIGHT
Label:BUIL2KILL
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
Italian Power Metal style act
RIYL Queensryche, Labyrinth, Kamelot, Stratovarius, Vision Divine, Judas Priest and Power Metal
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Band:PINO SCOTTO
Album:LIVE FOR A DREAM
Label:NADIR
Format:CD / DVD
Genre:Metal
Pino Scotto is a genuine legend in Italian Rock Panorama
Many super guests as: Strana Officina, Sadist, Destrage (bands) and musicians: Roberto Tiranti, Fabio Lione, Stef Burns, Marco Di Salvia, Alex Del Vecchio, Fabio Treves
Prestigious double digipack release (CD + DVD)
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Band:ATRETIC INTESTINE
Album:TRAIL OF ENTRAILS
Label:Coyote
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
Second full length album from the Finnish death metal maniacs!
For fans of Autopsy, Bloodbath, Cannibal Corpse, Cryptopsy, Devourment, Dying Fetus, Fleshgod Apocalypse, Nile, Severe Torture, Six Feet Under, Suffocation, Torture Killer, Vomitory
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Band:SPICE MUTATED CORPSE
Album:ATTEMPTS TO DEATH
Label:Coyote
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
The debut release of the internet project Spice Mutated Corpse (Russia) will be out on 23.01.16 under the name of ''Attempts to death'' which will have 10 thick tracks including an intro.
Technical / Slamming Brutal Death Metal
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Band:MYSTIC NOISE
Album:NEVER ENDING DREAMS
Label:GHOST RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
Never Ending Dreams contains 10 songs of alternative metal, heavy guitar riffs, melodic vocals,unconventional song structures and sometimes experimental approaches to heavy music and rock music. Special guest with a fantastic guitar solo, Timo Somers from the band "DELAIN".
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Band:VOLYMIAN
Album:MAZE OF MADNESS
Label:MAPLE METAL
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
The 6‐member band consists of seasoned pros from the Finnish heavy metal scene, including a great vocalist in Markku Kuikka (Status Minor, The Ragged Saints, Kenziner). Volymian also show their versatility from groovy metal songs to a power ballad, and even some prog influences. This album is a must for any Fan of these genres! Producer of the album Jacob Hansen (Volbeat, Primal Fear, Epica, Amaranthe) has shared his comments on the band & ‘Maze of Madness’: "Volymian is great! I’m very impressed with the performances and song writing. Excellent stuff they’ve got going."
RIYL: Modern Melodic Metal/Hard Rock, The Scorpions, Whitesnake, Deep Purple, Def Leppard, Alice in Chains
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Band:MISTEYES
Album:CREEPING TIME
Label:MAPLE METAL
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
Misteyes are well known for their energetic & theatrical Live Shows, and have already shared the stage with such acts as Arcturus, Cadaveria, Opera IX, Whyzdom, and Rublood, as well as performing at some Metal Festivals in their home country of Italy, in their brief 3‐year existence. Special guests that perform on some songs from ‘Creeping Time’: Björn "Speed" Strid (singer of Soilwork) – Vocal parts, and Nicole Ansperger (ex Eluveitie violinist) ‐ Violin solos.
For All Fans of Symphonic Gothic Metal, Beauty & Beast vocals; Nightwish, Within Temptation, Leaves Eyes
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Band:SMOKE THE BEES
Album:MESMERISE
Label:MandO MUSIC
Format:CD
Genre:Alt Rock
Smoke the Bees - Alt / Psych Rock from Italy.
For fans of Radiohead, Sparklehorse, Syd Barrett…
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Band:SOPHIA
Album:UNCLEAN
Label:cyclic law
Format:CD
Genre:Drone/Ambient
New opus from Sweden’s Industrial Ambient project from Peter Bjärgö (Arcana). Bringing together some of the original collaborators which were featured on earlier albums, Per Ählund, Stefan Eriksson and Ia Bjärgö, “Unclean” is again an outstanding piece of sonic force. Pounding percussions, commanding vocal parts and expanding ambient passages all merge to give us and absorbing, diverse and forward thinking journey. “Unclean” is an excursion into the folly of man’s self destructive tendencies, with a slight hope of a possible awakening before the last gasp is taken.
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