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Band:THE SKINTS
Album:PART AND PARCEL - SPECIAL DELIVERY
Label:BOMBER MUSIC
Format:CD
Genre:Reggae/Dub/Ska
The Skints have risen to the top the underground ska/punk/reggae scene over the past two years and are now breaking out. They earned their formidable reputation live and the first album has sold more than 7500 copies with zero PR. In the past they have played most of the major festivals and toured with Gym Class Heroes, Less Than Jake, Reel Big Fish, Sublime (with Rome), Bedouin Soundclash amongst others. In 2012 they completed a sold out headline tour culminating in a sold out London Scala. They also played the BT Olympics concert and BBC Radio 1 Weekender.
This is an extended version of last year’s album, featuring a brand new single and two new dubs and amended artwork !
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Band:WOBBLER
Album:RITES AT DAWN - RE-PRESS
Label:Termo
Format:CD
Genre:Prog Rock
Repress of much sought after Wobbler album in Digi Pak. 3rd album from Norway's leading symphonic prog band. Classic prog influences (Gentle Giant, Yes, King Crimson, Genesis, PFM and so on) and a vast array of vintage sounds. Features members of White Willow and Jaga Jazzist.
A prog rock fan's wet dream! • Huge amounts of Mellotron, Moog, Hammond, Chamberlin and other classic analog keyboards as well as Rickenbacker bass, searing guitar leads, tight 70s drums and new vocalist Andreas Prestmo's soaring vocals. • Stellar and powerful sound. As close to the real 70's experience as you will get.
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Band:WOBBLER
Album:RITES AT DAWN - LP
Label:Termo
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Prog Rock
3rd album from Norway's leading symphonic prog band. Classic prog influences (Gentle Giant, Yes, King Crimson, Genesis, PFM and so on) and a vast array of vintage sounds. Features members of White Willow and Jaga Jazzist.
Ltd vinyl pressing - The first-press of this LP (which was released by Pancromatic in 500 copies in 2011) sold out instantly and prices for these goes up to 170 GBP on the used-market.
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Band:HEXVESSEL
Album:IRON MARSH
Label:SVART
Format:CD
Genre:Folk
A companion piece EP to the band's successful album "No Holier Temple", with 5 tracks and over 30 mins of music, featuring guest vocals by Rosie from Purson and flutes by Alia from Blood Ceremony.
The album No Holier Temple, released in 2012, was a huge critical and commercial success.
Hexvessel will embark on an European tour in April 2012 !
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Band:
Album:COMBUSTION
Label:ARTY MUSIC
Format:CD
Genre:Blues
Fresh back from their travels in Europe and mid-west America, not to mention three major British Blues festivals last year, the much talked about Russ Tippins and his electric band have wasted no time getting back into the studio to record their second album. Their debut CD, 2010’s ‘Electrickery’ was Classic Rock Magazine’s album of the month on it’s release, and has since earned them plaudits from Blues writers and broadcasters on both sides of the Atlantic. Their outstanding live performance at Hebden last year immediately ensured their return for 2013. The new album ‘Combustion’ is scheduled for release May 6th.
Russ' debut album ‘Electrickery’ was Classic Rock magazine’s Blues Album of the Month Dec 2010.
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Band:TIM HOLEHOUSE
Album:FIGHTER.
Label:AAAHH REAL RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:Blues
Fourth album from Tim Holehouse. Tim plays authentic delta blues with stories from a life of hard touring and living on the road. Tim literally lives on the road, having given up his home and essentially moved into his car.
'Budget' price CD !
A rarity in modern music, with Tim's lifestyle contributing to his truly authentic classic Delta Blues meets Tom Waits sound...
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Band:YES
Album:MAGNIFICATION
Label:SIREENA
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Prog Rock
Already last year we released with “Open Your Eyes” (SIR 4018) an album by prog legend YES on vinyl for the first time. Finally here comes the next strike: Magnification!
"Magnification", the 19th studio album of YES from 2001 was different from the 18 albums that had preceded it. Gone were guitarist Billy Sherwood and keyboardist Igor Khoroshev. Remaining members Jon Anderson, Chris Squire, Alan White, and Steve Howe decided not to officially replace them, so YES reverted to a four-person band for the first time in its existence. Conductor Larry Groupe was invited to lead an orchestra, which substituted for the keyboards. It proved to be an inspired idea and it made the album unique in relation to its other releases and was a welcomed change of pace for a band approaching the 40-year mark. The result moves the group into new fields of traditional progressive rock style. We release this masterpiece on 3 LP sides to guarantee the best possible sound. The vinyl is 180 gram heavy-weight and the album comes in gatefold sleeve. Attention limited edition: The first 1000 edits will be released on coloured vinyl!
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Band:VARIOUS ARTISTS
Album:LIVE KRAUT
Label:SIREENA
Format:CD
Genre:Kraut / Space Rock
Sireena Records consciously did not chose the best known bands of the era but on first hand chosed the different styles of Krautrock live on stage. What you clearly can hear is the fun and improvisation during all recordings - that was the most important criterion for this compilation. This album offers (nearly) it all: Wonderful symphonic music (Grobschnitt, Jane, Anyone’s Daughter), bands with long extended jam-sessions (Mythos, Gila, Virus, Out Of Focus), jazzrock (Guru Guru, Embryo), folkrock (Ougenweide), political correctness (Eulenspygel) and crispy Rock’n‘Roll (Karthago, Nine Days Wonder). Yes, those were the days and that’s how it sounds today. When endmastering the cd the titles were added in such a way that you have the feeling to listen to only one concert. It is hoped that you like the result as much as the producers fun arranging this Krautrock compilation.
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Band:VIDUNDER
Album:VIDUNDER
Label:Crusher
Format:CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Vidunder is bluesy 70’s rock with a touch of garage. The trio now joins Spiders, Horisont and Dean Allen Foyd, by releasing their debut album on Crusher Records.
Vidunder from Malmö, a city in the south part of Sweden, features Martin Prim (vocals and guitar), Linus Larsson (bass) and Jens Rasmussen (drums). The band was formed in mid-2011 and it didn’t take long before they released their debut single Asmodeus on Crusher Records (the very same year). The release was followed by gigs around Sweden.
In late 2012, it was once again time to step into the studio, this time to begin the recording of the Vidunder debut album. The result was a ten tracks album. On the album can be found, for instance, Summoning The Not Living, reminding of a young Roky Erickson and his 13th Floor Elevators; the bluesy ballad Threefold giving the album a balance to the more heavier and up-tempo songs; Threat From The Underground which is one of the three tracks on this album with guest appearance by guitarist John Hoyles (guitarist of Spiders, ex-member of Witchcraft and Troubled Horse). The music can just as easily bring to mind the past days of Captain Beyond or Blue Cheer, as for today’s always topical and compatriots in Graveyard.
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Band:VIDUNDER
Album:VIDUNDER - LP
Label:Crusher
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Vidunder is bluesy 70’s rock with a touch of garage. The trio now joins Spiders, Horisont and Dean Allen Foyd, by releasing their debut album on Crusher Records.
Vidunder from Malmö, a city in the south part of Sweden, features Martin Prim (vocals and guitar), Linus Larsson (bass) and Jens Rasmussen (drums). The band was formed in mid-2011 and it didn’t take long before they released their debut single Asmodeus on Crusher Records (the very same year). The release was followed by gigs around Sweden. In late 2012, it was once again time to step into the studio, this time to begin the recording of the Vidunder debut album. The result was a ten tracks album. On the album can be found, for instance, Summoning The Not Living, reminding of a young Roky Erickson and his 13th Floor Elevators; the bluesy ballad Threefold giving the album a balance to the more heavier and up-tempo songs; Threat From The Underground which is one of the three tracks on this album with guest appearance by guitarist John Hoyles (guitarist of Spiders, ex-member of Witchcraft and Troubled Horse). The music can just as easily bring to mind the past days of Captain Beyond or Blue Cheer, as for today’s always topical and compatriots in Graveyard.
LTD VINYL PRESSING
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Band:PEARL HANDLED REVOLVER
Album:THIS MOUNTAIN WAITS
Label:BURNSIDE
Format:CD
Genre:Rock
One year on from the release of their critically acclaimed debut album Colossus, Pearl Handled Revolver retour with the eagerly awaited follow-up entitled This Mountain Waits. Starting life as a hard hitting blues rock band, the Bedfordshire based fivepiece have evolved and broadened their palette to produce a second album that is wilder, more exploratory and captures the essence of their exhilarating, psychedelic live performances. “There is something satisfyingly British about Colossus, the debut album from Pearl Handed Revolver. It’s an album that basks in the glory of the late 60’s and early 70’s when British bands like The Animals, Cream, Free, Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple ruled the world and I can hear elements of these artists woven into the relaxed but hard hitting, psychedelic blues of Pearl Handed Revolver. There’s no studio trickery, no bull, just five supremely talented guys in a room creating music from the heart.
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Band:SCOTT KEY
Album:THIS FOREST AND THE SEA
Label:LION PRODUCTIONS
Format:CD
Genre:Alt-Country / Americana
Excellent 1976 private press acoustic album, self-recorded at various places in Colorado, and filled with beautiful fingerstyle acoustic guitar, plus some atonal bottleneck slide, string scrapes and drones (at times, very Ry Cooder/“Paris, Texas” about six years before that soundtrack existed). Although almost completely instrumental, what lyrics there are tend towards the dark and the satiric. The obvious points of comparison are John Fahey and Leo Kottke, although Scott Key certainly has his own presence and style, differences in tone and color and attack, which he attributes to his background in rock bands. Overall, there is a brooding, loner folk/psych feel, most evident on the phenomenal, effects-heavy, almost 11-minute long title track, ‘This Forest and the Sea.’ "I was coming to terms with what it mean to exist… and saw the world in pure black and white—there was no room for grey,” Key said. “I saw an American Culture devoid of any understanding of its place in the universe, how we learn nothing save what we see on television, how our existence is tainted by intellectual laziness, and how our gift of life is defiled by the taking of it." This deluxe tip-on mini-LP jacket edition of “This Forest and the Sea” includes five bonus tracks from Key’s second private press album (“Unlock Your Feelin’s); the twenty-page booklet sports engaging, funny, and insightful notes by Key, photos, plus the text to poem that inspired the title track; as a nod to the forest, the booklet is printed on FSC recycled, chlorine-free, 100% post-consumer fiber paper manufactured using biogas energy. A very rare album that seems to have flown under almost everyone’s radar—although thankfully not Doug McGowan’s (Yoga Records), who sent this our way.
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Band:SCOTT KEY
Album:THIS FOREST AND THE SEA - LP
Label:LION PRODUCTIONS
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Alt-Country / Americana
Excellent 1976 private press acoustic album, self-recorded at various places in Colorado, and filled with beautiful fingerstyle acoustic guitar, plus some atonal bottleneck slide, string scrapes and drones (at times, very Ry Cooder/“Paris, Texas” about six years before that soundtrack existed). Although almost completely instrumental, what lyrics there are tend towards the dark and the satiric. The obvious points of comparison are John Fahey and Leo Kottke, although Scott Key certainly has his own presence and style, differences in tone and color and attack, which he attributes to his background in rock bands. Overall, there is a brooding, loner folk/psych feel, most evident on the phenomenal, effects-heavy, almost 11-minute long title track, ‘This Forest and the Sea.’ "I was coming to terms with what it mean to exist… and saw the world in pure black and white—there was no room for grey,” Key said. “I saw an American Culture devoid of any understanding of its place in the universe, how we learn nothing save what we see on television, how our existence is tainted by intellectual laziness, and how our gift of life is defiled by the taking of it." This deluxe 180-gram vinyl LP edition of “This Forest and the Sea” comes with an insert which sports engaging, funny, and insightful notes by Key, photos, plus the text to poem that inspired the title track; as a nod to the forest, the insert is printed on FSC recycled, chlorine-free, 100% post-consumer fiber paper manufactured using biogas energy. A very rare album that seems to have flown under almost everyone’s radar—although thankfully not Doug McGowan’s (Yoga Records), who sent this our way.
180 gram vinyl edition, limited to 500 copies worldwide!
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Band:HOLLINS AND STAR
Album:SIDEWALKS TALKING - LP
Label:LION PRODUCTIONS
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Psych/Garage Reissues
I love this record. For me, it has a trace or two of Arthur Lee and Love at their best (‘Krishna Dov’ would not sound out of place on “Forever Changes,” for example), with dashes of maybe Terry Callier in some of the jazzier tunes. I also like that Hollins & Starr wrote a gentle tribute to one of my favorite old-time bluesmen, Mississippi John Hurt. At times this album is a gorgeous, ethereal blend of psychedelic folk and offbeat pop; but there are some funk and avant-garde moves too (where did those crazy orchestrations, wild guitar, and breakbeats on the fierce anti-war rave-up ‘Hard Headed Woman’ come from?), all supported by an odd assortment of instruments, including flute, bells and a generous helping of fuzz guitar. Chicago-based duo Chuck Hollins and David Starr only made this one album, which originally appeared in 1970 on the Ovation label.
Ovation said at the time of its release, “Classical artistry rock and sidewalk poetry.” All true. Very cool. Hip, mellow, and stoned.
Limited edition of 750 copies, packaged in a deluxe 1960’s style tip-on jacket, with an insert. •Positive reviews in Uncut and Shindig! for the CD edition •180 gram 24-bit direct-from analogue vinyl edition
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Band:VARIOUS ARTISTS
Album:PAULA AGNUS DENISE - BEST OF AMIGA AND CD32 VIDEO
Label:010101 MUSIC
Format:CD
Genre:Dance/Electronica
A compilation album subtitled “Best of Amiga and CD32 Video Game Music”. The album contains 19 pieces of music from Commodore Amiga and CD32 video games from the early 1990s. The tracks have been remade or remixed with 5 recordings being previously unreleased. The total playing time is almost 80 minutes. Includes music from games such as Speedball 2, Cannon Fodder, Turrican 2, Hired Guns, Battle Squadron and Pinball Dreams. Composers featured on the album include Chris Huelsbeck, Tim Wright, Allister Brimble, David Whittaker and many others.
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Band:TRUCKER DIABLO
Album:SONGS OF IRON
Label:RIPPLE MUSIC
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
Heavy melodies firmly planted on a foundation of steamroller rock n’ roll aggression is the fuel behind the latest offering from Northern Ireland export, Trucker Diablo. Songs of Iron picks up where the breakthrough hit album, The Devil Rhythm left off, blasting listeners with the sonic fury of modern heavy rock mixed with a road worn southern swagger. After releasing two viral videos ("Drink Beer, Destroy," and "Voodoo") taking the stage at Hard Rock Hell, Download, and opening for The Foo Fighters amongst others, Trucker Diablo surged to new heights of popularity in 2012. Now 2013 finds the band upon their international acclaim by cranking out another set of piledriving melodic rockers. Songs of Iron, ups the ante on heaviness, crunching guitars and sing-along chorus, and is sure to please Trucker fans the world over, new and old.
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Band:TRUCKER DIABLO
Album:SONGS OF IRON - LP
Label:RIPPLE MUSIC
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Metal
Heavy melodies firmly planted on a foundation of steamroller rock n’ roll aggression is the fuel behind the latest offering from Northern Ireland export, Trucker Diablo. Songs of Iron picks up where the breakthrough hit album, The Devil Rhythm left off, blasting listeners with the sonic fury of modern heavy rock mixed with a road worn southern swagger. After releasing two viral videos ("Drink Beer, Destroy," and "Voodoo") taking the stage at Hard Rock Hell, Download, and opening for The Foo Fighters amongst others, Trucker Diablo surged to new heights of popularity in 2012. Now 2013 finds the band upon their international acclaim by cranking out another set of piledriving melodic rockers. Songs of Iron, ups the ante on heaviness, crunching guitars and sing-along chorus, and is sure to please Trucker fans the world over, new and old. LP Includes poster and download card.
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Band:APE MACHINE
Album:MANGLED BY THE MACHINE
Label:RIPPLE MUSIC
Format:CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
With a heady mix of animal aggression and technical precision, APE MACHINE’s music carries an organic depth and warmth rarely heard since the time of rock’s glorious early years infused with an exceptional modern sensibility. When the mystical lyrics lock in with the band’s stone-cold groove, APE MACHINE demonstrates an earth-shaking ability to rock. A true four-piece, the group has been called real heavy-psych for the iPhone generation that delivers true guts and glory rock and roll.
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Band:APE MACHINE
Album:MANGLED BY THE MACHINE - LP
Label:RIPPLE MUSIC
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
With a heady mix of animal aggression and technical precision, APE MACHINE’s music carries an organic depth and warmth rarely heard since the time of rock’s glorious early years infused with an exceptional modern sensibility. When the mystical lyrics lock in with the band’s stone-cold groove, APE MACHINE demonstrates an earth-shaking ability to rock. A true four-piece, the group has been called real heavy-psych for the iPhone generation that delivers true guts and glory rock and roll. LP includes poster and download card
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Band:MOMBU
Album:NIGER - LP
Label:Subsound Records
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Avant-Garde
Mombu is a project of Luca T. Mai bariton sax player of "ZU" the amazing italian band of the Ipecac Recordings, and Antonio Zitarelli drummer of "NEO" crazy italian trio. This duo, sax and drums joins african rhythms with their jazz, hardcore and metal experience , to create a new musical alchemy. If 'Mombu' , the debut album, was a sort of Afro/Grind Manifesto 'Niger' ritualized it with seven harder and deeper tracks. Driving beats, pounding drums and trumpeting African-core voodoo ritual, carry us in the heart of Black Africa. The monstruos afro/grind of Mombu will mesmerize like a purifing voodoo.
RIYL: Zu, Fela Kuti, Fantomas, Mike Patton • LTD Vinyl LP.
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Band:BOVINE
Album:THE SUN NEVER SETS ON THE BRITISH EMPIRE
Label:FDA REKOTZ
Format:CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Birmingham-based sludge-soaked ghetto rockers BOVINE will unleash The Sun Never Sets On The British Empire on April 12th via FDA Rekotz. A fire-branded mix of KYUSS, QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE, early SOUNDGARDEN and BARONESS, BOVINE's bottom-heavy and primal assault will surely leave many a listener convulsing on the floor. The band's tuneful and, at times, space-proggish, approach to songwriting will make the experience as enjoyable as it is bone-rattling. Let the stampede begin.
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Band:BOVINE
Album:THE SUN NEVER SETS ON THE BRITISH EMPIRE - LP
Label:FDA REKOTZ
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Birmingham-based sludge-soaked ghetto rockers BOVINE will unleash The Sun Never Sets On The British Empire on April 12th via FDA Rekotz. A fire-branded mix of KYUSS, QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE, early SOUNDGARDEN and BARONESS, BOVINE's bottom-heavy and primal assault will surely leave many a listener convulsing on the floor. The band's tuneful and, at times, space-proggish, approach to songwriting will make the experience as enjoyable as it is bone-rattling. Let the stampede begin.
LTD VINYL LP.
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Band:MACHETAZO
Album:RUIN - LP
Label:DOOMENTIA
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Death Metal
'Ruin' may sometimes dwell in surprising yet suffocating doom-as-fuck territories that will have old-school death-metal freaks in its dirtiest form possible shit their pants ("Tanatorio" or the eight-minutes plus drone and tortured pulse of "Ruinas") but at the end of the day, this is, guess what, another pure fucking old-school grindcore masterpiece. No need to remind you the band's influences, you know them and they proudly wear them on their sleeves anyway. No, all you need to know that in a world where even extreme music is being sterilized, their fifth full-length doesn't show any sign of them slowing down. As a matter of fact, co-released on LP by DOOMENTIA and PARASITIC and on CD (and limited digipack) by DOOMENTIA this April, perfectly illustrated by Timo Ketola stark black and white artwork, one could simply say that 'Ruin' is the real fucking deal. And so are MACHETAZO. Always been, always will be.
LTD VINYL LP
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Band:EVANGELIST
Album:DOOMINICANES - LP
Label:DOOMENTIA
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Of course to some remaining anonymous is a publicity stunt. Just a perverted way to tease people’s attention and let them rambling on if, yes or no, there’s a so-called ‘famous’ guy hidden behind the mask… But to others, it is truly an act of faith. A way of underlining on the most plain and honest way that at the end of the day, only music matters and that as such, true artists that truly believe in its sheer power just have this urge to give up their individuality and step aside to let it shine unconditionally. And EVANGELIST is a prime example of such mentality… All you need to know about those mysterious lads is that they’re a bunch of experienced musicians coming from Cracow, Poland and the first of their kind in this country. End of story. The rest is up to the music and boy, oh boy, if you hadn’t been exposed just to it yet thanks to their debut album ‘In Partibus Infidelium’, get ready to sweep off your feet. Yes, EVANGELIST doesn’t even pretend hiding where they are coming from. Classic and epic doom with a heavy-metal background à la CANDLEMASS and strong religious themes is the name of the game and right from opening track “Blood Curse”, you know you’re dealing with pros here and not simple imitators. Not only is ‘Doominicanes’ an extremely well-produced and not only has it more than a hint of the kind of vibe DOOMSWORD and other Italian power metallers have learnt to master on the battlefield and with all its epic buttons pushed to the max
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Band:MORDECAI SMYTH
Album:DIAL M FOR MORDECAI SMYTH
Label:MEGA DODO
Format:VINYL 7
Genre:Psych/Garage
Mordecai Smyth follow-up their critically acclaimed long-player with a four track, orange vinyl EP! Dial M For Mordecai takes their neo-psych sound to another level with four killer tracks that draw on a diverse bag of Sixties influences. This is whimsical British psychedelic music at its best. The EP will be launched on the Marrs Bonfire show and the band will be gigging throughout May and July to promote the latest release.
Limited to 250 copies. • Orange vinyl. • Free five track download including unreleased bonus song ‘See My Friends’.
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Band:NOBLESSE OBLIGE
Album:AFFAIR OF THE HEART
Label:Repo
Format:CD
Genre:Dance/Electronica
Pulsating with raw passion and a desire for anthemic melodies, Berlin based Noblesse Oblige have crafted their most polished and unapologetic work to date. New album release 'Affair of the Heart' presents a sophisticated pop opus, destined to unite the ears of dance floor dreamers and bedroom escapists alike. Powerful male & female harmonies melt over an ocean of warm electronics, voluptuous dance floor beats and euphoric disco arpeggios, as you’re welcomed into a rich fantasy world of exotic spies, demonic preachers and lonely souls lost at sea… “Affair Of The Heart is a romantic journey in the classic sense of the term. Our study of human passion from its most uplifting to its gloomiest...” Formed after a chance meeting at a masked ball in London, French performer Valerie Renay and German producer Sebastian Lee Philipp have spent the last few years touring the European club circuit, picking up a Russian Music Prize for their chanson pop album ‘In Exile’ along the way… However, when it came to working on their latest release, the duo locked themselves away in a live-in factory on the outskirts of Berlin (at studio haven ‘Turmwerk’, founded by Chris Corner of Sneaker Pimps/IAMX.) Undisturbed by the rest of the world, they collaborated for the first time with mixing engineers David Wrench (Caribou, Bat For Lashes) and Harald Blüchel (Cosmic Baby, Energy 52) in order to bring a fresh dimension to their sound. The result is an album that defies the isolation it sprung from and instead, shoots straight for the dance flloor and into the soul. Harnessing pop sensibilites and a slick electronic production, ‘Affair of the Heart’ recalls the emotional energy of iconic 80s bands like Eurythmics, Tears for Fears and Depeche Mode, whilst also reaching out to fans of more contemporary favourites like Hurts, The Knife, Austra and Trust. It’s a far cry from their arty beginnings in London's electro-punk scene, but if the album’s chilling and hypnotic cover of an Eagles’ classic demonstrates anything, it’s that not only are Valerie and Sebastian braving new territories; they’re creating their own as well…
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Band:ENSAMBLE LAKONIA
Album:NATTENS LOVSANG
Label:COMPUNCTIO
Format:CD
Genre:JAZZ/JAZZ ROCK
Nattens lovsång is Andreas Runeson’s debut album as a composer. Runeson is mainly known for being the producer and founder of the label Compunctio. The last ten years he has produced albums for artists including Nicolai Dunger, David Åhlén, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, Håkon Kornstad and Jon Christensen.
The idea behind Ensemble Lakonia and Nattens Lovsång (“midnight praise”) was formed in 2005 when Andreas Runeson took a sabbatical to live in a Swedish monastic community called Bjärka-Säby. Upon returning to ordinary life in Uppsala, Sweden, he contacted a few musicians who had been on his mind. After several years – in strange ways – Ensemble Lakonia had taken form. The music was recorded in a concert hall during three days in the summer of 2010. The big challenge was to keep the raw simplicity of the tunes and at the same time transform it into chamber music. If you listen to the music it seems logical that it took long time to find the right musicians, to find a form for the music and to make this album. The result is a wayward navigation between blues, chamber music, jazz, Swedish folk music and Gregorian chants.
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Band:ANDREAS EKLOF / MATS PERSSON
Album:KLAVIKORD
Label:COMPUNCTIO
Format:CD
Genre:JAZZ/JAZZ ROCK
When Andreas Eklöf and Mats Persson co-operated on Eklöfs’s album NOR (Compunctio 2008) it was listed as one top modern composition albums of the year in the magazine Wire and others. On this album they take the co-operation to the next level. Composition, interpretation and improvisation are made by them both. The music on the album is an exploration into the rich sound spectrum of the clavichord.
Andreas Eklöf is a composer and a musician. He has composed for the Gothenburg Combo (David Hansson and Thomas Hansy), Maria Ingemarsson, Trio Gohtia (Kristina Halvordsson, My Hellgren, Louise Jansson) and Mats Persson, amongst others. Mats Persson has played a great number of concerts since 1972. Music by Erik Satie, the early 20th century avant-garde from Russia, John Cage, Morton Feldman and Christian Wolff was from the beginning the main part of his repertoire – music that he performed a long time before it had gain status in the official music life.
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Band:DRUNKEN PRAYER
Album:INTO THE MISSIONFIELD
Label:BURNSIDE
Format:CD
Genre:Rock
“Morgan Christopher Geer, the man behind Drunken Prayer's moody blend of Americana and altfolk, has the sort of gravelly, lived-in voice that evokes memories of The Band and Tom Waits. On Drunken Prayer's second album, Into The Mission Field, Geer barks and croons his way through a song cycle inspired by garage rock, soul, psychedelia, and the band's folksy roots. It's an eclectic mix, but everything comes together on the title track, which even flirts with a bit of gospel music.” - American Songwriter,
“Every artist should sound so coherent when in the midst of such intoxicating revelry.” - No Depression
Touring The UK in 2013
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Band:IAMTHEMORNING
Album:IAMTHEMORNING
Label:BESTE! UNTERHALTUNG
Format:CD
Genre:Folk
Iamthemorning is a progressive neo-classical folk band from St. Petersburg.
The band members have completed a classical musical education and now they bring this skilfully in their work, without it seems exhausting. Piano melodies mingle with string arrangements. Marjana Semkina brings her voice expressive in position. Sometimes angry, sometimes softly melting reminds Marjana of Kate Bush.
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Band:TWINK
Album:THINK PINK - LP
Label:Sunbeam
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Psych/Garage Reissues
Classic UK Psych reissue !
First 500 pressed on pink vinyl !
Long-awaited 180g vinyl reissue - Fullest ever version
Prepared with Twink’s full involvement - Features members of Tomorrow, the Deviants, Tyrannosaurus Rex & the Pretty Things
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Band:STEVE MORGEN
Album:MORGEN - LP
Label:Sunbeam
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Psych/Garage Reissues
60s psychedelic masterpiece
Long-awaited 180g vinyl reissue
Fullest ever version put together with full involvement of Steve Morgen
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Band:HAVAN
Album:YAJNA
Label:cyclic law
Format:CD
Genre:Drone/Ambient
New project from Frederic Arbour (VISIONS). Havan (Fire Sacrifice) aims to explore spontaneous forms of aural explorations through instinctive sound manipulations, balancing improvisation with the channeling of sonic energies. Havan is also meant as a mainly collaborative endeavor and so for this first recording Frederic was joined by Harlow MacFarlane (FUNERARY CALL) and Sarah Rosalina Brady (AMBER ASYLUM). The album was recorded during a live ritual in November 2012 using Analog Synths, Guitar, Gongs, Bells, Voice and Electric Violin and the result is a stirring elemental foray into the transforming powers of sound and ritual. Edition of 600 copies in 6 panel digi sleeve.
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Band:DESIDERII MARGINIS
Album:PROCESSION.
Label:cyclic law
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Drone/Ambient
"Procession" heralds the reawakening of the acclaimed swedish dark ambient project Desiderii Marginis, an album that sounds at the same time warmingly familiar and inspiringly new. While Desiderii Marginis is perhaps not as prolific as some other acts, it's "quality over quantity" motto always makes it well worth the wait and this is certainly no exception. The eight pieces that make up this new album stand firmly on their own, and yet form an even more remarkable whole. Johan Levin envokes a grand soundscape, beneath the faded remnants of the celestial spheres where timbres have space to grow, evolve and reflect off each other, a sombre, melancholic thoughtfullness, a calm to dwell in, and long back to. The atmosphere of the album is not that of solid darkness, or an abyss opening beneath you, but rather a wintery pale, grey dusk casting long, sweeping shadows. A haze that makes you uncertain if it’s really getting lighter or darker. We're honored to welcome Johan Levin's long standing project to the ever expanding Cyclic Law family. Normal Edition of 400 copies in Gatefold Sleeve + A2 Poster.
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Band:NI
Album:NI
Label:JARRING EFFECTS
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Avant-Garde
Noise Magazine presents Ni as a group which in two years was able to drag from a small niche of Don Caballero’s followers to enter into countries where Zappa, jazz, noise tendance Zu and African trance came all together to create a tonic, brutal and shattered magma, but from which arises a warmth that where is often missing to this type of hybrid experiments sometimes a little bit tight.
After many EP’s and more than 40 gigs everywhere in France, Switzerland and Scandinavia, Ni wants to explode again throughout other musical and geographic fields . Ni is showing a real performance.
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Band:MINDLESS SELF INDULGENCE
Album:YOU`LL REBEL TO ANYTHING
Label:PLANETWORKS
Format:CD
Genre:Industrial/EBM
MSI’s music is a hybrid of Atari driven electronics with a venomous splash of ADD Punk Rock.
One of the most popular bands to sign with Metropolis in 2005 was Mindless Self Indulgence (MSI), a band whose name manifests itself during their incendiary live shows. Their music is a hybrid of Atari driven electronics with a venomous splash of ADD Punk Rock. In the vein of their cult classic records such as Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy, MSI and Metropolis Records proudly released You’ll Rebel to Anything. This newly remastered version contains tracks previously only found originally on the clean and vinyl versions, as well as two bonus tracks - including the previously unreleased live version of the fan favorite “Wack” (recorded at the bands legendary three night stand at NYC’s Webster Hall), and “Make Me Cum” from the unreleased “Pink” album - and a live video for their classic song , “Molly.”
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Band:MINDLESS SELF INDULGENCE
Album:STRAIGHT TO VIDEO
Label:PLANETWORKS
Format:CD
Genre:Industrial/EBM
The CD contains remixes by Frontline Assembly, Assemblage 23, Front 242, Combichrist, KMFDM, The Birthday Massacre and many others. Also included are the acapella and instrumental tracks for ''Straight To Video'' so that fans can make their own remix.
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Band:JUNO REACTOR
Album:MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE
Label:PLANETWORKS
Format:CD
Genre:Industrial/EBM
A tasty five track single from Juno Reactor, their second from the album ''Shango.''
Includes remixes by Front 242, Eternal Basement, and others.
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Band:JUNO REACTOR
Album:HOTAKA
Label:PLANETWORKS
Format:CD
Genre:Industrial/EBM
The single shows the constant innovations and influences that make Juno Reactor a timeless act.
Keeping up with the pace after just releasing the “Live in Tokyo” DVD, a brand new single from Juno Reactor has arrived. Recorded in Japan in a studio overlooking Mt Fuji, “Hotaka” features Steve Stephens on guitar, and the traditional Taiko drummers, Gocoo.
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Band:JUNO REACTOR
Album:ODYSSEY
Label:PLANETWORKS
Format:CD
Genre:Industrial/EBM
Not many bands can claim they can cross many musical boundaries with the ease that Juno Reactor has.
Trance, techno, industrial, pop, rock, dance, and world Juno Reactor has touched them all. Their newest release, “Odyssey 1992-2002,” is a celebration of their on-going achievements. Featuring the best of the best Juno Reactor tracks from all of their albums, as well the newest track, “Hotaka,” it highlights some of the most interesting collaborators that the band has ever worked with. It's Juno Reactor doing what they have always done and what they do best - pushing the music in new directions and constantly challenging the concept of what an electronic-based band should be and sound like.
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Band:JUNO REACTOR
Album:LIVE IN TOKYO DVD
Label:PLANETWORKS
Format:DVD
Genre:Industrial/EBM
Attending a JUNO REACTOR show isn’t like going to a “concert,” it’s experiencing a whole new concept in performances with a concoction of music, lighting, and live action.
Those that let the opportunity to catch JUNO REACTOR live during the “Shango” tour now have a chance to see what they missed out on. The “Live in Tokyo” DVD features selections off of “Shango,” as well as classic JUNO REACTOR tracks, such as “Conga Fury” and “God Is God.” The DVD precisely captures the intensity of JUNO REACTOR’s live performances: from the mind-expanding music, to the acrobatics of AMAMPONDO, right down to the hypnotic lighting effects. It’s an experience, a journey, a revelation, a discovery, an opportunity not to be missed. The “Live in Tokyo” DVD proves that the only thing better than watching it was being there.
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Band:HANZEL UND GRETYL
Album:2012 ZWANZIG ZWOLF
Label:PLANETWORKS
Format:CD
Genre:Industrial/EBM
December 21, 2012. The Earth faced the greatest catastrophe the world has ever seen – total extinction. While most withdraw into huddled masses, many flock to Chichen Itza near Valladolid in Mexico for what would be the last über death fest, Oktotenfest 2012. The ballistic skull splitting industrial-metal performance of Hanzel Und Gretyl was accompanied by gallons of blood beer and shot after shot of deathschlager. Über chaos – Über celebration! During their performance, the Temple of Quetzalcoatl unearthed itself to reveal its true identity – a spaceship built for HuG to tour the solar system. The band and hoards of fans boarded the ship and began a tour of all the planets, finally ending on the sun. All but HuG were burnt up, for they are time traveling space gods bent on total cerebral domination. Many perished with the Earth because without the purchase of 2012: Zwanzig Zwölf, they were unable to attend the exodus and enter the 9th dimension to transcend the human form with steins und skulls forever
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Band:HANZEL UND GRETYL
Album:UBER ALLES
Label:PLANETWORKS
Format:CD
Genre:Industrial/EBM
A new day has dawned for Hanzel Und Gretyl! For 2003, their highly-anticipated third epic album, ''Über Alles,'' will finally see the light of day. ''Über Alles'' is served up in the style of a misplaced Wagnerian space-metal opera lost in time, chewed up by distorted synth filters and pummeled by a million homicidal robot drum machines manipulated by the reclusive scatterbrain mastermind known as Loopy, and the much feared Vas Kallas. HUG has once again created the epic of all possibilities. No longer innocent on the deep black forest but powerful and sturdy in sound and message -- HUG survives and continues to bring pleasure and pain amongst the world!
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Band:ANNA MARIA
Album:SAKNAD FORNALDAR
Label:NORDIC NOTES
Format:CD
Genre:Folk
Saknad fornaldar Marías is Anna's first solo album. The album title is named after one of the poems and translated means "yearning for the old days."
She started in music in 2009 to work while she studied at the Rythmic Music in Copenhagen. The absence of Iceland has sparked her interest in her roots and she began to read old poetry books, which she had inherited from her grandparents. The processed on the album Icelandic poems are between 100 and 300 years old
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Band:TAIPUVA LUOTISUORA
Album:8
Label:NORDIC NOTES
Format:CD
Genre:Prog Rock
The fact that the Scandinavians have a great love for progressive rock has become something determined. In Finland such a large scene has emerged, which seeks its equal. This should be the listener even noticed. With the typical Nordic calm and premeditated nature creates a huge growth in quality. The five young men from Taipuva Luotisuora spente much time for their third album, which oddly enough is called "IV". Taipuva Luotisuora was born in early 2000 in Helsinki. With the album "I" they have reached the famous "Warning" status and was a "child" of the well known "Hidria Spacefolk". The second album entitled "II" was experimenting with a singer to get rid of it compares to Hidria Spacefolk, which worked great. But good music does not need Vocals! Therefore been omitted from now on without a voice.
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Band:TAIPUVA LUOTISUORA
Album:8 - LP
Label:NORDIC NOTES
Format:LP
Genre:Prog Rock
The fact that the Scandinavians have a great love for progressive rock has become something determined. In Finland such a large scene has emerged, which seeks its equal. This should be the listener even noticed. With the typical Nordic calm and premeditated nature creates a huge growth in quality. The five young men from Taipuva Luotisuora spente much time for their third album, which oddly enough is called "IV". Taipuva Luotisuora was born in early 2000 in Helsinki. With the album "I" they have reached the famous "Warning" status and was a "child" of the well known "Hidria Spacefolk". The second album entitled "II" was experimenting with a singer to get rid of it compares to Hidria Spacefolk, which worked great. But good music does not need Vocals! Therefore been omitted from now on without a voice. LTD VINYL LP W/CD.
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Band:DOGS FOR BREAKFAST
Album:SUN LEFT THESE PLACES
Label:Subsound Records
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
The project came to life from The Slaiver's ashes in 2009 as a three piece with a stronger identity After a few months of activity, and after an European tour, the band released their first EP "Rose Lane was Tucker's Girlfriend" on Subsound Records, produced by Giulio "Ragno" Favero (Zu, Il Teatro Degli Orrori, One Dimensional Man) and with the special participation of Luca Mai from ZU and MOMBU. The beginning of this year saw the band going back to the studio, this time with Massimiliano "Mano" Moccia and the important help of Gionata Mirai (Il Teatro degli Orrori; Super Elastic Bubble Plastic, Gionata Mirai) to make a much more mature album, even more complex and aggressive, pushing the whole project towards an extremely personal sound, rather difficult to categorize. The band has grown, the sound is changed. Almost fifty minutes of intensity, rough sound and moments of distressing and annihilating darkness.
RIYL: Converge , Unsane
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Band:KOOL THING
Album:KOOL THING
Label:PALE MUSIC INTERNATIONAL
Format:CD
Genre:Dance/Electronica
The debut full-length album from Berliner act kool thing is united by a feel of escapism, the need to ditch our urban addictions and regain a lost sense of wonderment, even if just for a few hours. With fourteen songs, including two instrumental interludes, kool thing sounds like youth remembered through a kaleidoscopic lens in which each mirrored fact points to limitless futures. Just like the Hipgnosis-echoing cover artwork (courtesy of photographer John Duncan), this record is full of beautiful juxtapositions, artifice and nature yinning and yanging their way through a dramatic love affair. Rusty guitar licks are found curling up against fractilling synth arpeggiations,with Julie Chance and Jon Dark’s vocal harmonies dancing on the horizon above the thunderous drumming by Valentin Plessy.
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Band:DEAD WOLF CLUB
Album:DEAD WOLF CLUB
Label:PALE MUSIC INTERNATIONAL
Format:CD
Genre:Post Punk
Dead Wolf Club have spent their first year of full existence meticulously putting their record together and playing with likes of Die!DieDie!, The Besnard Lakes, Atari Teenage Riot and Charlotte Hatherley. Building themselves a reputation as a vitriolic live band, from the debris of smashed guitars Dead Wolf Club rise to present their debut album. Often compared to everyone from Mogwai to Sonic Youth to Interpol to My Bloody Valentine to The Pixies, the band actually draw their bulk of influences from knitting, tea, comics, cardigans, Nintendo consoles and the crumbling city that is London (via Tintagel).
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Band:DEAD WOLF CLUB
Album:RAR
Label:PALE MUSIC INTERNATIONAL
Format:CD
Genre:Post Punk
"Dead Wolf Club is energetic yet comforting, distorted yet melodic, aggressive yet sensitive, raw yet polished. It's a unique monster of an album." - THE 405
The second album from Dead Wolf Club epitomises the economic and social struggles in the UK presently. "RAR" is what you start seeing when you have been out in the snow for too long. Your mind makes up distortions of shapes and these can appear as monsters. These monsters are apparitions of the past and the future.
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Band:NATTEFROST
Album:FUTURIZED
Label:SIREENA
Format:CD
Genre:Kraut / Space Rock
Nattefrost is Bjørn Jeppesen: All hardware & software synthesizers, vocoders and other various electronic equipment. Danish musician Bjørn Jeppesen is releasing his solo music under the name Nattefrost. It all started in 1995 with a cassette tape including some dark ambient tracks. But Bjørn developed his music and made it more melodic and rhythmic over the years. So far Nattefrost has released 9 albums, 2 EPs and is included on over 15 compilation CDs worldwide. The new Nattefrost album entitled “Futurized”” includes 10 electronic tracks. Some of the uptempo elements from the 2010 album “Dying sun / Scarlet moon” have been continued. There are also still a lot of vintage elements. The title track is almost 10 minutes long and might be the most vintage sounding track with lots of arpeggio sequences and vocoder voices. On the album a few artists are guesting. The danish electro act “Remember Green” is helping on “Electro Shock”. “Dorvo” does some great backing vocals on “Ghost Mind”” and “Michel Moers”, the vocalist from the legendary Belgian band Telex” works with Nattefrost on 3 tracks. ”Futurized”” should appeal to the fan that likes lots of the old school spacey electronic synth stuff but also for the Nattefrost fans that like a mixture of vintage and modern electronica.
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Band:DUNGEON ROCKS
Album:ENCOUNTER
Label:SIREENA
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
"Encounter" is the second album of the North-Germany-based Rock specialists of DUNGEON ROCKS.
With their refreshing Party-rock the band has already earned a loyal following. That's on one hand because of the playful format of the musicians and on the other hand of the at Doro Pesch reminiscent vocals of frontwoman Urte Brügge.
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Band:BANGERS
Album:DUDE TRIPS
Label:SPECIALIST SUBJECT
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
Collection of Bangers early recordings back on their original format!
Originally released on CD in 2010, ‘Dude Trips’ complies Bangers early vinyl releases including splits with the likes of Break the Habit, The Arteries & OK Pilot. With all the vinyl releases long out of print these songs are back on their original format and conveniently packaged on one LP.
“The best anthemic gruff punk songs in the country. End of.” - Big Cheese
For fans of Off With Their Heads, Hot Water Music, Lemuria, Leatherface - Limited to 500 copies on LP
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Band:DENDERA
Album:THE KILLING FLOOR
Label:METALBOX
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
Dendera are one of the UK’s prime up and coming Heavy Metal bands, combining classic metal with an aggressive modern edge. Formed in 2010, Dendera self-released their EP ‘We Must Fight’ in October 2011; an EP full of explosive drums, massive riffs, epic vocals, and a keen sense of melody. Dendera have secured support slots with Saxon, Grand Magus, UFO, Orange Goblin, Wolfsbane, I AM I, Firewind, Alestorm, Unearth, to name a few and with more to follow. ‘The Killing Floor’ is Dendera’s debut album.
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Band:CULT OF THE FOX
Album:ANGELSBANE
Label:ROCK IT UP
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
The Swedish Heavy Metal band CULT OF THE FOX was formed in 2007, that year they released their first demo "Kitsunetsuki". Later followed the demos "The Power We Serve" (2008) and "The Sea Beneath The Sand" (2010). In 2011, the band recorded their debut full lenght album, "A Vow Of Vengeance", and gained a lot of positive feedback from the metal community. The new album "Angelsbane" features 10 new tracks and will feature cover artwork from Anna Björklun and some cool special guests. "- recommended for fans of MERCYFUL FATE, PORTRAIT, ICED EARTH, TORCH, IN SOLITUDE, A TORTURED SOUL
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Band:FANTASIST
Album:FANTASIST
Label:Rocksector
Format:CD
Genre:Prog Rock
The 2nd album from alternative progressive rock band Fantasist. Odd, unique, technical, raw & detuned prog - as perfect for Rush fans as it is for those of Muse.
Tour dates - May 2nd: Manchester, 3rd: Burnley, 4th: Bury, 16th: Nottingham, June 14th: Newcastle. July 5th Deinze (Belgium), 6th: Roeselare (Belgium), 20th: Manchester, SOS Festival.
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Band:AZURE EMOTE
Album:GRAVITY OF IMPERMANENCE
Label:SELFMADEGOD
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
AZURE EMOTE (featuring members of DEATH, FEAR FACTORY, MONSTROSITY, TRISTANIA, RUMPELSTILTSKIN GRINDER and more) announces the completion of their 2nd studio album "The Gravity Of Impermanence" which will be released worldwide through SELFMADEGOD RECORDS April 3rd 2013. "The Gravity Of Impermanence" is an original mix of Avant-garde Death Metal featuring pummeling blast beats, haunting female vocals, violins, saxophone, harmonica and a barrage of other eclectic surprises, all brought together into one melting pot of misanthropic darkness. The cover art was once again done by AZURE EMOTE's own creator and frontman Mike Hrubovcak, who is known for illustrating artworks for SINISTER, GRAVE, CATTLE DECAPITATION, HATE ETERNAL, DECREPIT BIRTH, MORTICIAN, and many others. The album was recorded, mixed and mastered by Ron Vento of AURORA BOREALIS at NIGHTSKY STUDIOS. "The Gravity Of Impermanence" contains 14 songs and over 1 hour of music.
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Band:BLIKSEM
Album:FACE THE EVIL
Label:ALONE RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:Thrash/Crossover Metal
June 2012, the band enters the studio to record “Face the Evil,” the long-awaited debut album. Combining blistering tandem guitars, thrashing drums, pounding bass and furious vocals, the resulting eight songs not only explore themes including revenge, oppression and madness but also celebrate the timeless glory of metal. Mastering will be done by Herbrand Larsen (Enslaved) in the Earshot Studio in Bergen, Norway. Bliksem are now rapidly moving forward and ready to take the rest of Europe!.
- Female fronted metal for the tastes of Testament, Snöwhite, Death Angel.
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Band:THE ORANGE MAN THEORY
Album:GIANTS DEMONS AND FLOCKS OF SHEEP
Label:Subsound Records
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
Formed in 2003, in Rome, Italy, the extreme rock quartet The Orange Man Theory delivers a raging sound influenced by a strong passion for groovy dissonances, angular and odd rhythms, a perverse addiction to death metal and a real devotion for 70's super rock. Once recorded their debut cd "Riding A Cannibal Horse From Here To..." with Steve Austin of Today Is The Day, they signed to the US Supernova Records. Their album soon caught the attention of the worldwide press that acclaimed the album on the most important magazines, and The Orange Man Theory toured Europe, USA and South America. They performed at SXSW 2008 in Austin, TX, and played with bands like Sick Of It All, Today Is The Day, Wolves In The Throne Room, Venomous Concept, Cripple Bastards, -(16)-, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Godflesh, Dark Funeral... Their second full length album "Satan Told Me I'm Right" came out in 2009 by Subsound Records and the band left on several headling European tour.. Hardcore riffs, grind outbursts and rock atmospheres blend together in the third album titled “GIANTS, DEMONS AND FLOCKS OF SHEEP”
RIYL: Converge, Mastodon, Today Is The Day
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Band:THE ORANGE MAN THEORY
Album:GIANTS DEMONS AND FLOCKS OF SHEEP - LP
Label:Subsound Records
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Metal
Formed in 2003, in Rome, Italy, the extreme rock quartet The Orange Man Theory delivers a raging sound influenced by a strong passion for groovy dissonances, angular and odd rhythms, a perverse addiction to death metal and a real devotion for 70's super rock. Once recorded their debut cd "Riding A Cannibal Horse From Here To..." with Steve Austin of Today Is The Day, they signed to the US Supernova Records. Their album soon caught the attention of the worldwide press that acclaimed the album on the most important magazines, and The Orange Man Theory toured Europe, USA and South America. They performed at SXSW 2008 in Austin, TX, and played with bands like Sick Of It All, Today Is The Day, Wolves In The Throne Room, Venomous Concept, Cripple Bastards, -(16)-, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Godflesh, Dark Funeral... Their second full length album "Satan Told Me I'm Right" came out in 2009 by Subsound Records and the band left on several headling European tour.. Hardcore riffs, grind outbursts and rock atmospheres blend together in the third album titled “GIANTS, DEMONS AND FLOCKS OF SHEEP”
LTD VINYL LP
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Band:MORDBRAND
Album:UNMAKE
Label:DOOMENTIA
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Death Metal
You can take the man out of the death metal but you can’t take the death metal out of the man, it seems. Following the example of his former MACABRE END/GOD MACABRE comrade Jonas Ståhlhammar - who after a ten year break from the extreme metal scene has been churning out records like crazy since forming BOMBS OF HADES – Per Boder is back in full swing and doing what he knows best: growling his way through furious slabs of old-school Swedish death fuckin’ metal!
If MORBRAND was initiated as a studio project by Johan Rudberg and Björn Larsson, from thrash metal warriors THE LAW, in 2006, it’s really when Boder was pulled out of his retirement in 2010 that the band finally started to fire all cylinders. And since the release of their first MCD ‘Necropsychotic’ in 2011, they’ve been on a roll. The following year saw them offering a split with, you’ve guessed it, BOMBS OF HADES and a 7 inch EP (entitled‘Kolumbarium’). Guess that ‘Unmake’ just proves that they’re not planning to slow down anytime soon…
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Band:MAKE A CHANGE KILL YOURSELF
Album:MAKE A CHANGE..
Label:Black Hate
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
It's very rare that a band name cuts so succinctly to the heart of what a band is all about. So perfectly encapsulating the hate and misery and blackness of the music. Nothing here is supposed to be easy, or happy or joyful. It's meant to be hard, brutal, sad, dismal, hopeless, miserable. And it is, but on such a massively grand and epic scale it's sort of breathtaking. Huge mournful minor key swirls of buzzing guitars, ultra depressive and strangely melancholy. This album will take your very last breath. There is no way to pass this release for worshippers of atmospheric music like BURZUM, LEVIATHAN, SHINING etc pp.
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Band:RIVERA BOMMA
Album:INFINITE JOURNEY OF A SOUL
Label:Retroactive
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
Having two metal releases on several overseas labels, Christian metal heavyweights River Bomma storm the U.S. with their first new release in 7 years! Featuring a stunning collection of musicians, the band features Johnny Bomma (ex-Hades, Metal Blade Records) delivering vocal chops with grit, elegance and swagger. Rivera began studying classical guitar and flamenco before discovering the likes of Richie Blackmore, Michael Schenker and Malmsteen - incorporating all of those influences in his axe-cellent guitar work. Angelic Warlord reviews describe Rivera's style as 'dazzling' and say that he 'is a shredder in the truest sense of the word'. Also playing on the new album is talented original drummer Ed Faust, and on bass you will hear the thundering tones of none other than Mike LePond of progressive metal giants Symphony X!
For fans of Rob Rock, Driver, Dio, Impellitteri, Malmsteen, Deliverance (mid-period), and Sacred Warrior!
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Band:MORTAL FORM
Album:RECKONING
Label:MY KINGDOM MUSIC
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
MORTAL FORM is a death / thrash band the Netherlands born on 1994.
Inspired by bands as Death, Arch Enemy, Kreator, Overkill, Morbid Angel, In Flames and Iron Maiden, Mortal Form succeeded in creating a honest, diverse and well produced metal album that will appeal to many of you out there!!!
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Band:PTSD
Album:A SENSE OF DECAY
Label:MY KINGDOM MUSIC
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
PTSD (it stands for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) was formed in 2005. The musical spirit and the passion for all kind of music generate this interesting union full of originality and a lot of interesting idea and the first effort is "Burepolom", the band’s debut album. Thanks to this PTSD signs a deal with MY KINGDOM MUSIC and on September 2008 the album sees the light worldwidely. The great success of the album captures the interest of the US director Richard Terrasi of Dark Vision Films that included 3 songs of the album in "Am I Evil" soundtrack. The film resulted winner of the best director premium in the Horror Festival in USA. Soon after the band tours in Europe with EVER GREY and start to work on the new album. First of all the band reaches a great deal with one of the best drummer in the world MARCO MINNEMANN who recorded the drums parts for the full length. Then the band decides to contact one of the greatest producer and engineer of the world JIM CARUANA who mixed and mastered the album. At the end “A Sense Of Decay” is reality and it’s ready to be released on May 20th 2013.
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Band:SACRED GATE
Album:TIDES OF WAR
Label:METAL ON METAL
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
Germany-based SACRED GATE release a new album, only a year after their debut came out. Stronger and more confident than before, they forge traditional heavy metal with US power metal elements. Outstanding guitar work, strong, melodic but rough vocals and a tight rhythm section are highlighted by clear but not too modern production. While IRON MAIDEN can be still quoted as their biggest influence, they have moved away from it a few steps, crystallizing their personal recognizable style. "Tides of War" is a concept album about the Spartans' and other Greek soldiers' heroic fight for freedom against Persians at the pass of Thermopylae. A tale told in such a convincing way, not only through words, but also through music, that it should awaken the warrior spirit in every true metalhead, regardless the nationality. An epic work in every respect. Fans of ICED EARTH, ASKA, BLAZE, BLITZKRIEG, SAXON, DESTILLERY, THUNDERBOLT and METAL LAW - check it out!
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Band:METAL LAW
Album:LAWBREAKER - 2ND EDITION
Label:METAL ON METAL
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
The sold-out sophomore album of this German traditional heavy metal act is now re-released with 3 bonus tracks and improved sound. With an excellent mix of IRON MAIDEN, MANOWAR, JUDAS PRIEST, ACCEPT, as well as RUNNING WILD in their glorious days, METAL LAW bring forth all essential attributes of a powerful classic heavy metal outfit: a charismatic voice, guitar virtuosity (YNGWIE J. MALMSTEEN school), catchy songs, experience and an electrifying stage performance! Nothing new? So what! They do what they do best, with their hearts - that's what counts and that's what '80s nostalgic metalheads appreciate most. Metal is the law!
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Band:NORDHEIM
Album:REFILL
Label:MAPLE METAL
Format:CD
Genre:FOLK METAL
Epic Folk metallers, NORDHEIM’s sophomore release to their critically acclaimed debut album “Lost in the North” in 2010. With their new album “REFILL” the NORDHEIM trolls once again hit the listener with their creative aggressive tunes, and folkloric melodies, that will leave you headbanging, and humming to for years. NORDHEIM once again mix a combination of metal genres like Folk, Black, and Thrash metal to create a powerful & crunching, but very entertaining album. On “REFILL”, NORDHEIM flex their muscles to give the listener 9 epic folk metal classics, performed with a festive spirit'! Even Norway’s TROLLFEST get in on the fun, to lend their gang vocals on the choruses of Nordheim’s new single “Get Drunk or Die Tryin” ! NORDHEIM were just voted "BEST FOLK METAL BAND in Quebec, Canada" by their feverish fans !
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Band:LIFELESS
Album:GODCONSTRUCT
Label:FDA REKOTZ
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
Death Metal undeads LIFELESS have finished the work on their long awaited second album named Godconstruct, which contains 11 new stunning and catchy pure classic Death Metal hymns deep from the crypts of Germany, will crawl into your rotten ears. Do you like rawness combined with emotionally melodies? Don't miss Godconstruct !
For fans of GRAVE, DISMEMBER, ENTOMBED
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Band:REVEL IN FLESH
Album:MANIFESTED DARKNESS
Label:FDA REKOTZ
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
Germany’s classic Swe-Death Institution REVEL IN FLESH has returned with a rabid, blood lusting beast of a follow up to critically acclaimed FDA Rekotz debut Deathevokation. Harnessing the momentum created by the album that Teeth of the Divine’s Erik Thomas called “the best of a recent impressive run of the style,” on sophomore release Manifested Darkness REVEL IN FLESH ups the ante and goes for the jugular. It is sure to be considered one of 2013’s best classic Death Metal releases.
for fans of GRAVE, DISMEMBER, ENTOMBED
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Band:GORATORY
Album:SEXUAL INTERCORPSE REISSUE
Label:AMPUTATED VEIN
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
In 2001, 6 Young sick fuckers from Massachusetts released an album which consisted of 7 tracks filled with pure brutality and insanity. This album made a huge impact on the brutal death metal. Yeesss, Goratory - Sexual Intercorpse is finally reissued adding 3 live tracks (Live at Ikebukuro Chop Tokyo Japan Aug 8, 2004) and 3 live videos (Live at Bomb Shelter 2004 Line-up) as a bonus. This album is surely one of the brutal death metal masterpieces. There is no reason you wouldn't get this.
Some members are now playing in Job For A Cowboy or The Black Dahlia Murder or Sexcrement.
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Band:EXTERMINATION DISMEMBERMENT
Album:SEXUAL URBICIDE
Label:AMPUTATED VEIN
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
Behold the second full-length album of Belorussian Slamming Guttural Sickness EXTERMINATION DISMEMBERMENT -- SERIAL URBICIDE, 40 minutes of Slamming Brutal Death Metal brought to a whole new level. There are no more maniacs or zombies. No more lone serial killers. Things are going global this time. Much more diverse guitar riffs and drum patterns combined with a completely new sound and Marko Hasmann's artwork will make you plunge into the atmosphere of violence, of bloody terror and fearsome slaughter, of death and hatred, of Extermination and Dismemberment.
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Band:CEREBRUM
Album:COSMIC ENIGMA
Label:AMPUTATED VEIN
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
Greek technical death metal outfit CEREBRUM features George Kollias of NILE, and now are here to bring up their second full length "Cosmic Enigma" which follows their successful debut full length "Spectral Extravagance". As an aggressive result, Cerebrum reached the next level; 12 tracks of extreme technicality with over 400 or more signature riffs and tempo changes. Featuring artwork from Xaay (NILE, BEHEMOTH. KAMELOT, NECOPHAGIST, etc.). Highly recommended for fans of 90's classic technical death metal like Atheist, Cynic, Death, Gorguts and Pestilence. You won't be disappointed.
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Band:SUICIDAL CAUSTICITY
Album:THE SPIRITUAL DECLINE
Label:AMPUTATED VEIN
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
SUICIDAL CAUSTICITY, which means "caustic brutal death metal leading to cerebral suicide" comes this debut album: "The Spiritual Decline" includes ten tracks of unlawful sensations and commanding obliteration, created in Italy purposely to make your ears bleed! Brutal death metal composed of homicidal guitars and bass riffs, ravenous blast beats, all framed by gruesome growling vocals. A new reality in Death Metal from Italy with no compromise! For fans of Suffocation, Nile, Hour Of Penance, Spawn Of Possession and more!
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Band:GRIVF/SOL
Album:ISS / THE GREAT PLAGUE IMPERIUM
Label:ARCHAIC SOUND
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
Cult Funeral Doom/Black Metal split CD from two Danish masters of Doom, Death and Misery.
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Band:STORHET AV MORKE
Album:GRANDEUR OF ETERNAL COLD
Label:ARCHAIC SOUND
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
Cold atmospheric black metal in veins of old glorious traditions of early Norwegian scene.
For fans of KVIST, early IMMORTAL and GORGOROTH. • Limited to 500 copies
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Band:BATTLE DAGORATH
Album:CURSED STORM OF AGES
Label:ATMF
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
Symphonic Black Metal taking its most powerful expressive form
For fans of Summoning & early Emperor
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Band:SIMULACRO
Album:FALL OF THE LAST IDOL
Label:ATMF
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
Sardinian Black Metal - A music still connected to the primordial strength, not yet mechanized by modern form.
For fans of early Deathspell Omega & early Mayhem
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Band:MOONREICH
Album:TERRIBILIS EST LOCUS ISTE
Label:ATMF
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
French Black Metal inspired by the darkest cults, a sinister sermon
For fans Deathspell Omega, early Mayhem
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Band:DARKALL SLAVES
Album:abysses of seclusion
Label:KAOTOXIN
Format:cd
Genre:Death Metal
With only a self-released EP under their belts (2008) in eight years of existence mostly spent going through a long list of line-up changes, Darkall Slaves have nevertheless managed to be noticed and being invited to play such famous Death Metal festivals as Germany’s Death Feast, Belgium’s Mass Deathstruction, Holland’s Neurotic Deathfest (official after party) or Houten Deathfest or share the stage with their renewed peers (Defeated Sanity, Gorgasm, God Dethroned, Hate, Lividity, Sinister, Vital Remains, etc.).
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Band:YEARS OF TYRANTS
Album:LEADING THE BLIND
Label:KAOTOXIN
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
Produced at the Iguana studios (Necrophagist, Maladie…) back in 2010 by the band’s first line-up featuring past and present Rise Of The Northstar and Resistance members, “Leading the Blind” stayed unreleased until Kaotoxin records heard about it and picked up the band. This debut is a true masterpiece of upper class technical Deathcore with a soul, the missing link between Beneath The Massacre and Necrophagist.
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Band:EXENCE
Album:TABULA RASA
Label:PUNISHMENT 18
Format:CD
Genre:Thrash/Crossover Metal
Features a new line up and made the band evolve from a “Progressive Death Metal” band to a more “Thrash Metal” like sound. After months of hard work and after the addition of Richie Bleed (vocals), Riccardo Tortoli (guitar), Dario Lastrucci (bass) & Francesco ‘Breeze’ Brizzi (drums) the band had finally found its own identity. This also enabled Exence to break the silence and to record a new album in Rome in 2011. The high quality result for which the band would also like to thank Stefano Morabito (16th Cellar Studios) only increased the band’s enthusiasm and fueled the wish to bring the band’s anger up on stage and to bring out another album! And that is how the Florentine Thrash/Death Metal band Excence made its comeback!
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Band:LUNARSEA
Album:HUNDRED LIGHT YEARS
Label:PUNISHMENT 18
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
In 2008 LS signed a contract with Punishment 18 Records for the release of our second album going by the title “Route Code Selector” (released in 2009). After that they did a couple of tours in Italy and several other countries like Slovenia, Germany, Greece & the Czech Republic. Over the time they played on the same stage as bands like Darkane, Sinister, Rage, Leave’s Eye, Orphaned Land, Obscura, Nargaroth, The Haunted, Primal Fear, God Dethroned, Nightrage, Septic Flesh, Firewind and many others.
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Band:PURGATORY
Album:DEATHKCVLT
Label:WAR ANTHEM
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
PURGATORY returns as one of the oldest east german death metal outfits with a brand new killer album
10 old school death metal hymns will literally kick your rotten face in.
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Band:MALIGNANT TUMOUR
Album:OVERDOSE AND OVERDRIVE
Label:WAR ANTHEM
Format:CD
Genre:Grindcore
MALIGNANT TUMOUR(cz) is one of the oldest grind/crustcore acts of their country
since 1991 the band released 4 albums, 3 EP´s, 22 split EP´s und numberless Compilations - heavy metal attitude mixed with Crustcore and some Motörhead!
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Band:MORTUUS CAELUM / DIABOLICAL PRINCIPLES
Album:OIONOI
Label:SUPREME MUSIC CREATIONS
Format:VINYL 7
Genre:Black Metal
The Norwegian black metal scene meets the Hellenic black metal scene on this ltd 7"! |
Band:CREPUSCULUM
Album:ILLUMINATUS
Label:ODIUM
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
2nd album of Crepusculum from Poland titled "Illuminatus"
Extreme but melodic, high quality Black Metal...
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Band:ARS MACABRA
Album:ARS MACABRA 3
Label:ODIUM
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
Italian Occult Black Metal.
A must for fans of Watain, Ofermod or Ondskapt.
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Band:VARATHRON BLACK ALTAR THORNSPAWN
Album:EMMISSARIES OF THE DARKENED CALL
Label:ODIUM
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
XI brand new tracks of kult, old bands: Varathron, Black Altar and Thornspawn.
This Unholy Trinity presents a different view on Black Metal.
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Band:DISMAL FAITH
Album:MORPH
Label:MASTERPIECE
Format:CD
Genre:Thrash/Crossover Metal
Dismal Faith present their first album "Morph"
Style : Death, Black, Thrash, Nu, HC, Metalcore and Groove.
RIYL: Hatebreed, As Blood Runs Black, Morbid Angel, Carnifex.
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Band:NEW DISORDER
Album:DISSOCIETY
Label:MASTERPIECE
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
New Disorder is a five-pieces Alternative-Rock band born in 2009 and based in Rome (Italy).
For fans of Avenged Sevenfold, Alter Bridge.
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Band:THE RED COIL
Album:LAM.
Label:MASTERPIECE
Format:CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
The Red Coil’s debut album “LAM” is an high-explosive mix of southern sludge rock.
Southern sludge rock with stoner/doom overtures, influenced by bands such as Crowbar, Down, Black Label Society, Entombed, Black Sabbath.
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Band:DECEMBER FLOWER
Album:ARCHITECT
Label:METAL SCRAP
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
Debut full-length album by Ukrainian Progressive Thrash/Melodic Death Metal band.
For fans of: In Flames, Dream Theater, Chimaira, Death, Arch Enemy.
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Band:WHITE PULP
Album:VULGARITY IS NOT A FELONY
Label:FULL EFFECT
Format:CD
Genre:Industrial/EBM
From the deep depths, White Pulp debuts on Full Effect Records with “Vulgarity Is Not A Felony”.
Mixing dark industrial stylings with catchy hooks that are infectious to the core...
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Band:MARION CRANE
Album:THE NEW RELIGION
Label:FULL EFFECT
Format:CD
Genre:Rock
Jump starting your sleeping heart with a hooky, angst-ridden guitar riff, Marion Crane begins their album, aptly titled “New Religion”, with a riff you wont soon forget.
"The Hard Rock & Metal Album of The Year" - Nuclear Fallout Radio.
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Band:JUDAS ISCARIOT
Album:HEAVEN IN FLAMES
Label:PLANETWORKS
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
If you're a fan of true, archaically themed and primal black metal with rough demo productions, then add this to the top of your list of albums to buy.
“One of Judas Iscariot's best work, hands down.” – MetalCrypt
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Band:EXPURGATE
Album:DEMENTIA TREMENS
Label:PLANETWORKS
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
Expurgate have been brutalizing the planet since 2010, but are just now getting around to releasing Dementia Tremens, their first full length...
“Dementia Tremens is a ruthless display of bone shattering calamity.” - The Ripple Effect
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Band:MIRRORTHRONE
Album:GANGRENE
Label:PLANETWORKS
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
Two years after Carriers of Dust, Mirrorthrone returns with Gangrene and is more rabid and vindicative than ever.
“The album is entertaining throughout and not bad for a one-man band.” Metal Underground
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Band:PEST
Album:HAIL THE BLACK METAL WOLVES OF BELIAL
Label:PLANETWORKS
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
These Beherit-worshipping Finns offer nine ultra-raw tracks culled from various releases from between 1997 and 1999.
“Finland has always provided excellent and captivating Black Metal and PEST are no exception.” - Voices From The Darkside
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Band:NOMINON
Album:MONUMENTOMB
Label:PLANETWORKS
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
2010 release, the fourth studio album from Sweden's harbingers of TOTAL DEATH!
For fans of Merciless, Maze of Torment, Tribulation, Stench, Kaamos, Crown of Thorns
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