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Band:WITCH MOUNTAIN
Album:CAULDRON OF THE WILD
Label:Profound Lore
Format:CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Portland’s oldest doom metal band, WITCH MOUNTAIN, have had quite the interesting history leading up to the present day. Initially formed in 1997 by guitarist Rob Wrong (Iommi Stubbs, ex-M99) and drummer Nathan Carson (Point Line Plane, Two Ton Boa, Sunn0))) collaborator, etc), the band released heir debut album “…Come The Mountain” to critical acclaim in 2001. The album wouldn’t take long to ultimately go out of print not too long after its release. But between 1998 and 2002 Witch Mountain became a live staple in the Northwest and on the national circuit, touring with Weedeater and Spirit Caravan, and gigging with the likes of Lost Goat, Bongzilla, Goatsnake, Acid King, High on Fire, Orange Goblin, Electric Wizard, YOB, Unsane, EyeHateGod, Alabama Thunderpussy, Clutch, Unida, Solitude Aeturnus, Unorthodox, Sour Vein, Isis, Soilent Green, Karma to Burn, Nebula, Penance, Raging Slab, Warhorse, Agalloch, Thrones, etc, etc. After that, a period of hibernation was in effect. That is until 2009 when WITCH MOUNTAIN would re-surface with an addition to the band, the soulful, soaring, and unparalleled female vocalist Uta Plotkin. Her addition to the fold would make the analogy that WITCH MOUNTAIN were what Black Sabbath would sound like if Janis Joplin fronted them.
In 2010 WITCH MOUNTAIN recorded their sophomore album “South Of Salem” with mega-producer Billy Anderson and the band would release “South Of Salem” themselves on vinyl only and was officially in April of 2011. The record garnered exceptional press as well as serious nods from NPR (which named it the #4 metal album of 2011), Decibel magazine, and beyond. The band would then forge an agreement with Profound Lore, as the label would immediately issue the CD version of “South Of Salem”, to make it more readily available, and prepare for the band’s follow-up full-length album “Cauldron Of The Wild”.
“Cauldron Of The Wild” is easily WITCH MOUNTAIN’s mightiest release to date. and will bring proper recognition and awareness to this veteran American doom metal band.
RIYL Black Sabbath,Yob,Pentagram,St Vitus,Jex Thoth and The Devil's Blood.
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Band:DAWNBRINGER
Album:INTO THE LAIR OF THE SUN GOD
Label:Profound Lore
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
DAWNBRINGER were always seen as one of the most underrated American metal bands, heralded by many as the best and most unique American metal band you’ve never heard and at the time, the one band that mastermind Chris Black had been involved in that many people who knew his body of work with the other bands he’s involved in, hadn’t even heard of, even though DAWNBRINGER was the band that Black had been involved in the longest. When Profound Lore released DAWNBRINGER’s “Nucleus” album in 2010, four years after its “In Sickness And In Dreams” predecessor (in which said album was released six years after the band’s second album!), the metal world took notice as DAWNBRINGER finally began getting the recognition they deserved as one of America’s most prominent heavy metal bands as “Nucleus” took on year end reigns on all 2010 best-of lists.
In what will easily be seen as one of the best American heavy metal albums to be released in 2012, “Into The Lair Of The Sun God” continues in the DAWNBRINGER fashion by providing unique epic forward-thinking heavy metal that captures the classic metal spirit of the past, and forges the heavy metal movement forward to the future. An album that’s warmer with tighter performances and ultimately, one that is the most musical DAWNBRINGER album to date. And of course it’s an album that fully opposes the novelty poser heavy metal bands of the modern day.
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Band:PAGAN ALTAR
Album:THE TIME LORD
Label:Cruz Del Sur
Format:CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
PAGAN ALTAR is a legendary dark doom metal band hailing from UK, led by Terry (vocals) and Alan (guitar) Jones. Formed back in the late 70s, PAGAN ALTAR wasn’t able to gain the success they deserved during the NWOBHM explosion, being their proposal quite out of the Metal classic schemes of those days. The band was put on hiatus. Nevertheless the cult-status of the band only grew stronger with time, and definitely exploded in 1998 with the official re-release of “Volume I”, the only album recorded by the band at that time and that had never seen the light, except as a bootlegged tape. The release brought interest on the band and enthusiasm in the same band-leading members. Then the reformed Pagan Altar recorded and released two more full-length albums, “Lords of Hypocrisy” and “Mythical and Magical” in 2004 and 2006 respectively and are on the verge of releasing their new album “Never Quite Dead” (a title that quite sums up their career) in the second half of 2012.
“Time Lord” collects material written and recorded around 1978 and 1979 in different studios and later saved for posterity on cassette format (thus the “original” sound quality of this release). So far it has been released only on vinyl format, originally by I HATE RECORDS in 2004, and later in 2011 by BURIED BY TIME AND DUST. Both editions were quickly sold out.
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Band:CELLDWELLER
Album:WISH UPON A BLACKSTAR
Label:FIXT
Format:CD
Genre:Dance/Electronica
Wish Upon A Blackstar, the sophomore Celldweller album, is here. The product of six years of writing, demoing, and refining, Wish Upon A Blackstar is a masterwork by a master artist: Klayton. Sixteen songs seamlessly blend genres from electro and dubstep to rock and orchestral with an intricacy and precision seldom heard in today's music. But it's not all just studio wizardry and digital complexity; Klayton brings his deeply honed songwriting ability to bear, making Wish Upon A Blackstar an album that will long outlast its contemporaries. Truly epic in scope and execution, Wish Upon A Blackstar will not only leave a lasting mark on the always-changing landscape of electronic music, but will also stand steadfast as a remarkable statement of artistic virtue in a sea of disposable trends.
“Klayton (Celldweller) has ruthlessly forged a fantastic metal-infused dubstep sound tainted with unholy guitar riffs and haunting, glitchy, and highly nostalgic melodic work. When accompanied by a growling and slightly robotic lead synth capable of shredding the very fabric of reality, nothing can stand in the way of Celldweller.” - Dubstep.net
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Band:BLUE STAHLI
Album:BLUE STAHLI
Label:FIXT
Format:CD
Genre:Dance/Electronica
Blue Stahli arrives at your party in suave style with a bombshell on each arm, martini in hand, but by night's end he will be throwing burning couches into your pool. Such is the one-two punch of the debut Blue Stahli album - ten tracks of cathartically vengeful alternative rock with a streak of Ray-Ban-sporting electro-funk that gives it a sexiness punk never had. Stahli doesn't shy away from playing with the reigning dance styles of our day but each track retains the distinct Stahli flavor that wrenches your head open, climbs in, and uses your brainy bits to pantomime Pete Townsend's entire history of guitarsmashing. With powerful vocal hooks and a knack for hybridizing genres, Blue Stahli is an album aimed squarely at the front lines of alternative music.
"The all encompassing vocal range combined with anthemic songs and well thought out lyrics has made this one of the best debut albums I have heard in a long time, and will be a part of my music collection for a long time." -Coma Music Magazine
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Band:BEAT BOYS
Album:BEAT BOYS
Label:LION PRODUCTIONS
Format:CD
Genre:Psych/Garage Reissues
“Caetano called the Beat Boys, an Argentinean group settled in São Paulo who had been inspired by the Beatles, to accompany him in ‘Alegria, Alegria.’ That, in fact marked the beginning of the Tropicalista thing.” —Gilberto Gil
Along with Os Mutantes, the Beat Boys represented the most radical element in Brazilian rock: their name, clothes, hair—and intense fuzz guitar raves—were all fierce indicators of a rebel spirit, and this in a dangerous time for such self-expression. The simple truth: The Beat Boys were at the very epicenter of the cultural revolution that convulsed Brazil during the late 1960’s, that movement of rupture, that bringing together of electricity and avant-garde erudition that has come to be known as “Tropicália.” They backed Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil for their defining moments as artists—both live, and in the studio on tracks which became the opening Tropicalist salvo (a rare EP). So, what were this group of Argentine rock musicians doing in the forefront of all things outrageous in Brazil? More to the point, why is it that few people, even among the Brazilian music cognoscenti, have heard of them? One explanation must be that the band were essentially outsiders to the Brazilian music scene. As unlikely as it was for them to penetrate the inner circles of Brazilian elite musicians (it was unlikely), it was even more unlikely that they would remain there once their closest friends, Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil, were exiled from Brazil. This disc includes the Beat Boys entire output under their own name: their sole album—an exercise in what one might call “controlled Tropicália”, laden with torrid psychedelic moments (1968), as well as a rare singles track from the same year. A 20- page booklet includes lyrics, and an exploration of the Beat Boys’ fascinating story.
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Band:ERGO SUM
Album:MEXICO
Label:LION PRODUCTIONS
Format:CD
Genre:Psych/Garage Reissues
Along with the two records by Nurse With Wound favorites Moving Gelatine Plates, Ergo Sum’s weird and wonderful album “Mexico” is an unusual portal into the intense creativity of early 1970’s French music. True, the bands are not musically similar; yet these three albums are distinguished not only by their instrumental richness, but by their unceasing sense of adventure. We’d go so far to say that Ergo Sum presents one of the most distinctive experiences in a rock idiom (apart from Zeuhl music juggernaut Magma) to ever come from France. The band’s one and only album (1971) features the unique voice of Lionel Ledissez—his guttural sort-of-English language delivery described as being “somewhere between Family’s Roger Chapman and a drunken Champs-Elysees taxi driver,” although more sober comparisons to Tim and/or Jeff Buckley have also been made. The compositions develop at a relaxed pace; incredible jazz-inflected guitar, flute, piano and droning violin swirl around the vocals, and keep one submerged in, yet attentive to the intimate mood. Tracks full of instrumental richness—they simmer, rather than blaze, which makes the rewards ever so great for patient listeners. Bonus tracks include the superb ‘All’s So Comic,’ one of the highlights of the “Puissance 13+2” Thélème label anthology, as well as both sides of Ergo Sum’s musically relevant single from 1972. A fulsome 28-page booklet includes band history, photos, lyrics, and a contemporary 1971 review from Superhebdo magazine. A three o-clock in the morning, slow burn album if ever there was one.
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Band:OPA
Album:BACK HOME; THE LOST 1975 SESSIONS
Label:LION PRODUCTIONS
Format:CD
Genre:Psych/Garage Reissues
This disc is a departure from the other reissues in our Uruguayan music series. It’s not remotely in a psychedelic or rock idiom; it was not released on the mighty Sondor label. Yet when given the opportunity to reissue these “lost” sessions, we did not hesitate for a moment. This music is funky and jazzy, groovy and urban, even sounding like Fela (on ‘Goldenwings’ at least); it has the sunny feel of sweltering days on South American beaches, but it also has a heavy dose of the grittiness of mid 1970’s New York City. There are connections to the great bands of Uruguay, of course: both Fattoruso brothers, so successful with their beat band Los Shakers, greatly admired the work of the much less successful Eduardo Mateo, Ruben Rada and their band El Kinto. Opa had their own style, and the critical acclaim for their recorded legacy would soon eclipse on an international level that of anything else from their native land.
After coming to NYC in 1969, a regular club gig led to Opa becoming backing band for Brazilian percussionist Airto Moreira (Weather Report/Return to Forever); they toured the USA, working on a sound that resulted in the “Fingers” album for the CTI label (1973), Airto’s most successful record. Things looked grim when Flora Purim, Airto’s wife and singer of the band, was sentenced to two years in prison for drug possession. But drummer and producer Larry Rosen invited Opa to record in his small home studio. They recorded nine demos with Rosen during 1975 (all but one of the tracks that give this reissue a reason to exist, the other being the band’s first demo recording from 1972). Included are versions of songs which would later be re-recorded the following year for Opa’s debut album for Milestone Records. Rhythm-laden tracks that range from the heavily funkified to chilled out, shimmering, and trance-inducing. A 16-page booklet includes band history and photos.
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Band:OPHIUCUS
Album:OPHIUCUS
Label:LION PRODUCTIONS
Format:CD
Genre:Psych/Garage Reissues
Ophiucus may be the name of an obscure constellation, but it's also the name of a French band that recorded an exceptional album in 1972 for the Barclay label. All the members of the band had already enjoyed ample success in music before musician/actor Emmanuel Booz brought them together in 1971: Jean-Pierre Pouret was a well-known session-man for Sylvie Vartan; brothers Alain and Bernard Labacci released albums as Tom & Jerry, and supported Jimi Hendrix for a TV appearance; Michel Bonnecarrere had founded the band Zoo (one of Andy Votel from the B-Music label’s favorites), and was one of the composers, arrangers and musicians for that group’s first two albums. Apropos of the period, the band members decided to live together as a small family in Flagy, a small town in France, where they lived a happy life, and wrote the tracks which adorn this reissue. The ambitious “Ophiucus” album somehow manages to blend grungy psychedelic rock, acoustic blues, and densely orchestrated French pop/psych (in an Ilous & Decuyper vein) into an impressive and cohesive whole. Sandy Spencer, cellist and member of Mormos contributed wonderful playing on ‘Ne cherche plus’ and ‘Inachevée.’ This reissue includes the original album plus eight bonus tracks in English meant to be the basis of an international album that was never issued. A fulsome 28-page booklet includes band history and commentaries on the songs written by Ophiucus, photos, lyrics (French and English), and a contemporary review.
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Band:CHUBBY CHECKER
Album:CHEQUERED
Label:Sunbeam
Format:LP
Genre:Psych/Garage Reissues
Like several other icons of early 60s pop, by the end of the decade Chubby Checker was eager to update his sound and message. The result was this enigmatic set of raw, soulful, psych-tinged ballads and rockers. Overseen by Jimi Hendrix ‘s early producer Ed Chalpin, it was released in the UK only in 1971,complete with background notes and a stupendous bonus track.
Lost classic - Long-awaited official reissue - Fully remastered LP.
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Band:VARIOUS ARTISTS
Album:NEW RIDES OF THE FURIOUS SWAMPRIDERS
Label:SIREENA
Format:CD
Genre:Alt-Country / Americana
Finally, here comes Part 4 of the legendary series with independent musicians presented by german underground icon The Perc. Strange songs with dirt and edges, written on his/their own or even covers. No matter if acoustic guitar or synthesizer, if folk, punk, rockabilly, krautrock or minimal beat. That’s the sound of The Furious Swampriders. In the saddles this time: Debbie Harry, Lydia Lunch and Dave Alvin, 16 Horsepower, The Walkabouts, The Raymen, The Perc, Johnny Dowd and many others .
TRACK LISTING 01 Wovenhand “The Threshingfloor” 3:03 02 Deborah Harry “Lucky Jim” 4:04 03 The Raymen “When Death’s Black Train Is Coming To Town” 2:52 04 M. Walking On The Water “Enjoy The Silence” 3:42 05 The Dad Horse Experience “Kingdom It Will Come” 3:41 06 Sixteen Horsepower “De-Railed” 3:15 07 The Perc “Sleeping Dog” 2:04 08 Lydia Lunch & Dave Alvin “Walkin’ Down The Street (Doin’ My Own Thing)” 6:32 09 Kirschbaum-Weishoff-Trio „Heartbreak Hotel“ 3:30 10 The Walkabouts “Soul Thief” 4:22 11 Velvetone w/The Fat Honks “The River” 3:02 12 Golden Kanine “Law Of Probable Outcome” 4:12 13 Johnny Dowd “Constant Waiting” 3:18 14 Harry Payuta “Take You Home” 2:56
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Band:VARIOUS
Album:NEW RIDES OF THE FURIOUS SWAMPRIDERS - LP
Label:SIREENA
Format:LP
Genre:Alt-Country / Americana
Finally, here comes Part 4 of the legendary series with independent musicians presented by german underground icon The Perc. Strange songs with dirt and edges, written on his/their own or even covers. No matter if acoustic guitar or synthesizer, if folk, punk, rockabilly, krautrock or minimal beat. That’s the sound of The Furious Swampriders. In the saddles this time: Debbie Harry, Lydia Lunch and Dave Alvin, 16 Horsepower, The Walkabouts, The Raymen, The Perc, Johnny Dowd and many others .
LTD VINYL LP - TRACK LISTING 01 Wovenhand “The Threshingfloor” 3:03 02 Deborah Harry “Lucky Jim” 4:04 03 The Raymen “When Death’s Black Train Is Coming To Town” 2:52 04 M. Walking On The Water “Enjoy The Silence” 3:42 05 The Dad Horse Experience “Kingdom It Will Come” 3:41 06 Sixteen Horsepower “De-Railed” 3:15 07 The Perc “Sleeping Dog” 2:04 08 Lydia Lunch & Dave Alvin “Walkin’ Down The Street (Doin’ My Own Thing)” 6:32 09 Kirschbaum-Weishoff-Trio „Heartbreak Hotel“ 3:30 10 The Walkabouts “Soul Thief” 4:22 11 Velvetone w/The Fat Honks “The River” 3:02 12 Golden Kanine “Law Of Probable Outcome” 4:12 13 Johnny Dowd “Constant Waiting” 3:18 14 Harry Payuta “Take You Home” 2:56
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Band:VARIOUS ARTISTS
Album:SHINDIG! NO 27
Label:VOLCANO PUBLISHING
Format:MAGAZINE
Genre:Psych/Garage Reissues
Shindig! magazine - Psych, garage, prog, powerpop, soul, folk… for people who want more!
Cover Stars : THE CHOCOLATE WATCH BAND At The Love-In California's answer to The Rolling Stones: the coolest image and the wildest psychpunk sounds Also : TOBY TWIRL Revered classic psych-pop 45s... Small Faces support slots... working men's clubs! The highs and lows of a provincial pop band THE WHEELS / DEMICK & ARMSTRONG From 'Bad Little Woman' to Little Willie Ramble. Belfast duo who fed garage-punk to The Shadows Of Knight, counted Them's Van Morrison as a friend and fan and recorded singer-songwriter gems in the early ’70s JOY BANG Behind the smile of the freewheeling hippie chick actress plus THE FALLEN ANGELS • VAN DYKE PARKS • THE AMBOY DUKES • TAV FALCO • THE SEE
Available from all inspired Independent retailers!
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Band:THE GREEN PAJAMAS
Album:SUMMER OF LUST
Label:BURNSIDE
Format:CD
Genre:Psych/Garage Reissues
In 1984 Jeff Kelly and Joe Ross recorded their psychedelic debut on a 4-track reel-to-reel up in Joe's attic. They released it locally as a cassette, Summer of Lust, which is now available to the public for the first time in twenty-two years. About time. What you get here is two young guys filled with wild inspiration. Nothing slick. Nothing professional. Just beautiful. If you love The Green Pajamas, you need this. If this is your first time, start the grand adventure here. First 500 copies numbered and initialed by the artists.
" Recorded in 1984, this album has become an underground classic in America .for anyone into 60's rock music and psychedelia this album is a delight." .... "British-style psychedelia similar to Dukes of Stratosphear but more off-center and less pastiche” - Feeback #6
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Band:NRBQ
Album:WE TRAVEL THE SPACEWAYS
Label:BURNSIDE
Format:CD
Genre:Rock
"NRBQ follows up Keep This Love Goin’, their critically-acclaimed 2011 CD, with a powerful and propulsive new live recording. The dozen songs, recorded last spring, showcase everything we love about NRBQ – energy, musicianship, playfulness, swing, and their brilliant mix of rock, jazz, pop, and who-knows-what. There are originals spanning NRBQ’s 40-plus-year career, Q-takes on Thelonious Monk and Piano Red and, as always, unexpected arrangements of tunes we think we may have heard before but aren’t sure where. Present is former NRBQ drummer Tom Ardolino, who passed away early this year. He was on hand for this show, as he often was in recent years, and is showcased on four tracks, side-by-side with Conrad Choucroun, sounding “like a choir of drummers” according to WFMU’s Bob Brainen who was in the audience that night. Also joining the band is saxophonist Klem Klimek.
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Band:CHRIS WATSON
Album:PLEASURE AND PAIN
Label:BURNSIDE
Format:CD
Genre:Blues
After his first studio release, Just For Show, Chris was named the “Future of the Blues” by the Blues Underground Network and has been billed with some of the greats such as BB King, Buddy Guy, Johnny Winter, Robert Cray, and the list goes on.
“Unlike a lot of young players more interested in being just for show, Watson proves on this collection of originals that he knows it’s not all about him and his guitar. Sure there’s guitar here but he’s smart enough to step back and let the groove itself step into the spotlight. ” — Blue Lisa, Southwest Blues Magazine
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Band:BILL EVANS
Album:IN GOOD COMPANY
Label:BURNSIDE
Format:CD
Genre:Bluegrass
Banjo powerhouse and Banjo for Dummies author Bill Evans' In Good Company features an all star cast headlined by the Infamous Stringdusters, Tim O'Brien, Joy Kills Sorrow, David Grier, Stuart Duncan, Rob Ickes, Darol Anger, Mike Marshall, Laurie Lewis and many more. This auspicious line-up performs five Evans compositions, a four song, ten-minute Beatles medley and songs pairing Bill with The Infamous Stringdusters (performing John Martyn's Walk to the Water), Joy Kills Sorrow (performing Sarah Siskind's On and On) and Tim O'Brien (performing Follow the Drinking Gourd). The sonic landscape moves from hard-driving bluegrass to expansive new acoustic sounds.
"Bill Evans has outdone himself with this, his latest project. The picking, singing, tune writing and production values are on a ridiculously high level. Bill's ideas are immensely satisfying and fresh. The supporting cast burns up the musical pavement and if there's any justice, Grammy voters will take note!" Tony Trischka
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Band:OTTMAR LIEBERT AND LUNA NEGRA
Album:DUNE
Label:BURNSIDE
Format:CD
Genre:world/new age
Dune contains the haunting southwest border-country flamenco music Ottmar and his band Luna Negra are famous for. This isn't old school Flamenco. Acoustic guitar mixes with electric, gypsy accordion, electric bass, funky drumboxing and percussion. There's no rain in this music, just poetic sunshine at midnight. “I wanted to play guitar melodies that sounded sung”, says Ottmar. “For some reason I kept thinking about old jazz and pop crooners. So I sang almost every melody first and then figured out how to play it on guitar. Perhaps it’s guitar anti-shredding!” What better analogy than Dune to describe Ottmar’s passion for melody… an ever-changing landscape.
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Band:BARRETT MARTIN GROUP
Album:ARTIFACT
Label:BURNSIDE
Format:CD
Genre:JAZZ/JAZZ ROCK
Screaming Trees/ Seattle drummer and composer Barrett Martin and his group return with their 5th album in 8 years titled, Artifact. Produced by legendary Seattle producer Jack Endino (Nirvana, Soundgarden, Screaming Trees), Artifact is by far the band's best and most adventurous album to date. The album showcases a perfect rhythmic fusion of Barrett's jazz-rock world beats and the band's liberal use of world music style, exotic melodies, and psychedelic jazz. Now grown into a septet made up of Seattle's top jazz musicians, "The BMG" also features Hindustani vocalist Mehnaz Hoosein, from Mumbai, India. The band will be playing dates throughout the US and Europe throughout the summer and fall of 2012 in support of Artifact, as well as their previous 4 albums.
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Band:BIBLE OF THE DEVIL
Album:FOR THE LOVE OF THUGS AND FOOLS
Label:Cruz Del Sur
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
Bible of the Devil is a four-piece high-intensity Rock n' Roll Metal band from Chicago, Illinois. With numerous albums and 7" singles to their credit, the band has carved themselves quite a niche in the heavy rock underground over the past 13 years as carriers of the flame of classic, loud, hook-filled guitar rock, yet with their own modern interpretation. The band has toured the United States and mainland Europe extensively during this period, and continue to do so in 2012, whether or not Mayan predictions of an apocalypse prove to be true.
For the Love of Thugs and Fools, Bible of the Devil's eagerly anticipated follow-up to their 2008 release, Freedom Metal, is a collection of raging Rock n' Roll songs that encapsulate the band's saga musically and personally over the years since the last full-length. Returning to Phantom Manor studios in Chicago to work with engineer Mike Lust, who has engineered numerous BOTD recordings in the past, the band sought to emphasize their trademark bludgeoning two-guitar attack and mammoth hooks with an increased attention to soaring, anthemic vocals.
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Band:MIGHTY HIGH
Album:LEGALIZE TRE BAGS
Label:RIPPLE MUSIC
Format:CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Legalize Tre Bags is the second full-length album from Brooklyn-based hard rockers, Mighty High, and is a gritty journey through the 5 boroughs of New York City. 11 kick ass songs bashed out in 34 minutes and containing over 30 references to getting high, including the raucous classic, “I Don’t Wanna Listen To Yes” and the mind altering rock experiences of “Chemical Warpigs” and “High on the Cross”. Featuring the out-of-this-world artwork of Wayne “Braino” Bjerke and mastered by T. Dallas Reed (Mos Generator/Stone Axe).
For Fans of MC5, Black Flag, Iggy and the Stooges, Motorhead, Grand Funk Railroad
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Band:MIGHTY BABY
Album:LEGALIZE TRE BAGS - LP
Label:RIPPLE MUSIC
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Legalize Tre Bags is the second full-length album from Brooklyn-based hard rockers, Mighty High, and is a gritty journey through the 5 boroughs of New York City. 11 kick ass songs bashed out in 34 minutes and containing over 30 references to getting high, including the raucous classic, “I Don’t Wanna Listen To Yes” and the mind altering rock experiences of “Chemical Warpigs” and “High on the Cross”. Featuring the out-of-this-world artwork of Wayne “Braino” Bjerke and mastered by T. Dallas Reed (Mos Generator/Stone Axe).
LTD Vinyl LP - for Fans of MC5, Black Flag, Iggy and the Stooges, Motorhead, Grand Funk Railroad
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Band:VOIVOD
Album:WAR AND PAIN
Label:WAR ON MUSIC
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Thrash/Crossover Metal
Arguably one of the best debut albums in metal history. A primitive, sci-fi robot thrash Motorhead-meets- Discharge opus - raw and dirty, featuring easily the filthiest fuzz bass ever recorded--sounds like piles of black earth pouring out of your speakers! The album's production is utterly appropriate, and this slick limited Gatefold reissue has been carefully remastered from the original 1984 reels to maintain the sound and quality of the original release.
LTD Exclusive vinyl release licensed from Metal Blade Records • Carefully remastered from the Original 1984 reels • Special Edition Gatefold Pressing Limited to 1000 Copies • 4 Page Insert Featuring never before seen artwork drummer / artist Away • Full Color Printed Inner Sleeve.
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Band:HIRAX
Album:NOT DEAD YET
Label:WAR ON MUSIC
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Thrash/Crossover Metal
Total Cult LA Speed Metal from Katon and Crew!! First 2 Hirax Albums (Raging Violence 1985 / Hate Fear & Power 1986) together in full on one LP! The legendary Hirax were an influential group in the Los Angeles thrash/speed metal movement of the mid '80's, performing alongside the ranks of heavyweights of METALLICA and MEGADETH in their early days. Originally released by Metal Blade in 1987, the Raging Violence/Hate Fear & Power combo sums up perfectly the raw energy and vicious metal force that Hirax was, and remains today. Never before released in full on vinyl, Not Dead Yet features the iconic artwork of Pushead, also including a four-page insert featuring rare photos and flyers from the era. Pressing limited to 1000 copies on classic black wax.
Re-packaged with original artwork in Gatefold Jacket with 4 page insert. Limited pressing, black vinyl. Featuring the original iconic Pushead artwork. Gatefold Jacket and 4 Page Insert Featuring Rare Photos & Flyers!
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Band:BISON B.C.
Album:DARK AGES
Label:WAR ON MUSIC
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Brooding, dark, and unreasonably heavy. A genre expanding colossal offering from the unrivaled titans of precision sludge metal. Everything that you could guess about BISON B.C.'s music from their name is probably true. It can shift a plodding stomp into a breakneck stampede with shocking agility, it's well versed in stone age metal and it thrives on a whole lot of grass. Dark Ages isn't math-rock, but Bison b.c. change progressions like someone auditioning for music college. "Fear Cave" blitzes a heavy trudge into hypersonic hardcore before crashing into something that sounds like your speakers failing. Premiere track "Stressed Elephant" might be about the mightiest mammal fretting over losing its place in the animal kingdom.
For fans of High On Fire, Mastodon, Melvins, Kvelertak, Baroness - Limited Pressing Gatefold LP
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Band:JACK RABBIT SLIM
Album:THE EMPERORS NEW CLOTHES
Label:WESTERN STAR
Format:CD
Genre:Rock And Roll/Psychobilly
5th studio album by the most popular Rockabilly band in the UK/Europe
JRS are very busy with a full diary gigging all across the UK & Europe including many festival dates
Great self penned material and stunning musicianship. This band have a large loyal following!
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Band:THE ATLANTICS
Album:ANOTHER TIME
Label:WESTERN STAR
Format:CD
Genre:Rock And Roll/Psychobilly
A beautifully performed and recorded album by North Devon 5-piece band The Atlantics
The band are very busy with a full diary gigging all across the UK including many festivals and Rock n Roll weekenders
Great self penned material and superb RNR musicianship!
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Band:EPILEPTIC HILLBILLYS
Album:INSANITY
Label:WESTERN STAR
Format:CD
Genre:Rock And Roll/Psychobilly
Second album by popular UK Psychobilly trio.
Their first album was a best seller for Western Star and there is a LOT of interest in this, their second album.
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Band:ARCANA
Album:AS BRIGHT AS A THOUSAND SUNS
Label:cyclic law
Format:CD
Genre:Drone/Ambient
Four years after the release of their last full length album "Raspail", and following their "Emerald" EP released earlier this year, ARCANA now offers us brand new material on their 7th full lenght album. As accustomed from this legendary act we are graced with Peter Bjärgö’s solemn voice echoing through the blend of strings, guitars, piano and a variety of percussion instruments. Ann- Mari Thim’s beautiful, picturesque soprano floats through the air together with Núria Luis’ emotional violin and Cecilia Bjärgö’s soft, mellow alto blends in with Mattias Borgh’s and Sergio Gamez Martinez’ percussive rhythms. As Bright as a Thousand Suns is a sincere and sapience filled opus from a mature collective, ten diverse songs of thoughts and emotions on one album of pure splendour. Edition of 2000 copies in 6 panel Digipack
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Band:BEYOND SENSORY EXPERIENCE
Album:MODERN DAY DIABOLISTS.
Label:cyclic law
Format:CD
Genre:Drone/Ambient
Beyond Sensory Experience are back with their seventh full length study - Modern Day Diabolists. BSE have reopened the dossiers and turned page to focus on life in the modern urban world. True to their tenyear pattern of evolution the dark ambience is more captivating than ever; complex soundscapes and consoling melodies combine with provocative rhythm structures and unsettling samples to generate a new profile of BSE. When business has stopped and lights are out what is left is Modern Day Diabolists. Modern Day Diabolists will be available as a CD/DVD double Digipak in May. The DVD features compelling visual interpretations of two tracks from the album by Swedish video artists The Retardtank and Fetish 23. Edition of 800 copies in 6 panel double Digipack.
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Band:DESIDERII MAGINIS
Album:PROCESSION
Label:cyclic law
Format:CD
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. Edition of 1000 copies in 6 panel Digipack.
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Band:SHRINE
Album:SOMNIA
Label:cyclic law
Format:CD
Genre:Drone/Ambient
It's with great pleasure that we present you the new album from Bulgaria's Shrine. Somnia is a complex audio metaphor that can be interpreted as an aural equivalent of a "low level" lucid dreamstate - a dream in which the dreamer is not fully aware he is dreaming but is still having the ability to control the dream. Based on processing of multiple sound sources ranging from audio synthesis, acoustic instruments and field recordings, the album explores several imaginary realities immersing you into a lucid-like experience through sound. Almost an hour long, it contains 8 thematically independent compositions representing an extended blend of ambient, acoustic music and nature sounds. Use it as a sound guide to lucid dreaming. Edition of 600 copies in 6 panel Digipack.
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Band:OLLO
Album:APE DELAY
Label:METAL POSTCARD
Format:CD
Genre:Dance/Electronica
THE THIRD ALBUM FROM THE GODFATHERS OF THE SYDNEY ELECTRONIC MUSIC SECENE. APE DELAY IS INSPIRED BY THE ORIGINAL EUROPEAN MINIMAL WAVE POP SCENE OF THE 1980’S AND 1990’S
"The second album from Sydney’s Ollo, The If If, doesn’t disappoint; it’s a strange and imaginative collection of anti-pop songs that uses simple, melodic electronica to create trance-like soundscapes. ...an eerie and well crafted musical excursion where you never quite know where you’re heading, or where you’ve just been." [Rolling Stone]
"Like an Aussie Beta Band with a touch of the kind of playful sound of acts like Department of Eagles, Errors and Tunng. Very promising." [Pure Groove :: UK]
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Band:STEVE MORELL AND MONICA POKORNA
Album:LADY PHERES
Label:PALE MUSIC INTERNATIONAL
Format:VINYL
Genre:Avant-Garde
“Lady Pheres” is like the black pearl of Steve Morell´s upcoming album “The Life And Death Of Jimmy Pheres And His Rise From The Underworld“. It is as seducing as a melody played by a music box over and over again, possibly somewhere deep beneath the surface of the earth. With a hint of pop and its avant-garde elements the song has the potential to turn into one of the most romantic singles in decades.
Feat. Musicians from Goldfish, Einstürzende Neubauten, Adam & The Ants and Noblesse Oblige
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Band:PHILIPPE PETIT
Album:EUGENIE
Label:ALREALON MUSIQUE
Format:VINYL 10"
Genre:Avant-Garde
Internationally acclaimed French sound-artist Philippe Petit, the self-described, "musical travel agent" in conjunction with French/Swiss label Alrealon Musique, announce the release of 'Eugenie'. Comprising four stellar tracks of avant-garde/ classical/soundtrack and released as a 10-inch vinyl record and digital. This stunning piece of musical modern art entitled 'Eugenie' (ALRN029) will be available on June 4, 2012.
Aside from his solo works Petit has assembled what people call a dream-team of collaborators, often joining Lydia Lunch or Faust onstage, and working with: Foetus, Murcof, Edward Ka-Spel, Kumo, Scott McCloud (Girls Against Boys), Cosey Fanni Tutti, My Brightest Diamond, Sybarite, Pantaleimon, Graham Lewis (Wire), Barry Adamson, Scanner, Mira Calix, Kammerflimmer Kollektief, Guapo, Leafcutter John, Simon Fisher Turner, Jarboe, ASVA and many more...
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Band:RANDY TWIGG
Album:BEHAVIOUR OF THE BIRDS
Label:PALE MUSIC INTERNATIONAL
Format:CD
Genre:Indie/Shoegaze
Hitting below the belt with catchy, disjointed riffs, Canadian Randy Twigg restores the simple beauty of heavy rock and roll. Originating from the rock and punk scene of Toronto, she has been quickly adopted by Berlin, one of the most influential creative capitals of the world. Currently based there, she has thoroughly colluded and conspired a fresh sound in the local music scene. Before relocating to Europe Twigg was a driving force behind the electro metal duo, Fuck Puppets (BugEyed Records), but has since moved to the top of Berlin's unique underground music scene with her no holds barred power rock. Flight cases moving in and out of airports, Twigg has toured as a solo artist as well as a bass player with the American band, Mt. Sims, with French artist, Mell, collaborating and playing live with Kid Congo Powers (Gun Club, The Cramps) and Tobi Dammit (Iggy Pop, Jessie Evans). Merging fuzzed out bass guitar, synthesizers, and live drums, she began a natural progression into the world of raw instrumentation. Now she operates on stage with one bass and one voice accompanied only by Alexis Gaffuri on drums. Twigg has masterminded a live sound so massive it is shocking to be produced by only 2 instruments.
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Band:SANDRO CODAZZI
Album:SANDRO CODAZZI
Label:PALE MUSIC INTERNATIONAL
Format:CD
Genre:Dance/Electronica
Put in your music shaker two fingers of the best italo disco vibes mixed with good old spacey analogue synth on the rocks. Shake it to a steady 4/4 beat. Now pour it in your glass, add a bittersweet lime of new wave melancholy, siphon it all with shining sparkles of 8 bit soda and you’ll get a imaginary foretaste of Sandro Codazzi’s stunning debut album. A ten tracks prodigy made for driving through and beyond Electro-pop Galaxy’s time frontiers and space boundaries. Sandro Codazzi is the ultimate synth pop virtuoso and a true cult figure for the growing Spaghetti electro underground scene aficionados. After his beginnings as dark wave bass player for several small bands he focused his composition talent on synthesizers, inspired by the German pioneers of the Seventies, the Italo disco heroes of the Eighties and the most audacious techno acts of the following decade. Old analogue machines, robotic vocoders and Commodore 64 music softwares became key ingredients in his musical approach.
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Band:A THOUSAND FUEGOS
Album:THE TREACHERY OF THINGS
Label:Seayou
Format:CD
Genre:Dance/Electronica
Matthias Peyker’s alias A Thousand Fuegos’ electronic style is neither hip nor urban. It is as rural as the place “The Treachery Of Things” has been recorded at: an abandoned house at the foot of the ‘Affenberg’ in the picturesque countryside of southern Austria. Beats, loops and spacey synths mirror the feeling of rural isolation and introspectiveness and lay the foundation for the lyrical examination of the “Treachery Of Things”: the notion that we can never grasp the true identity of the things around us so that we have to set them free. “The Treachery Of Things” is a unique mix of pop, electronic and experimental music that’s full of melody and cold beats hammered into distinct arrangements.
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Band:UMA
Album:DROP YOUR SOUL
Label:Seayou
Format:CDEP
Genre:Dance/Electronica
Debuting with 5 songs between sound-tinkering avant-garde and soothing catchiness this Berlin based duo (husband & wife) has already forged a daring mix of deep electronic rhythms and hauntingly beautiful vocal chants. The ‘Drop Your Soul’ EP was written in Vienna, Berlin and Madrid and features notable guest musicians such as legendary Silver Apples from New York and Japanese sound-designer Yosi Horikawa. It was recorded in the couple’s idiosyncratic home studio in Berlin using analogue synthesizers/drum machines and digital recording equipment as it aims to sonically and lyrically capture the most elusive everyday moments. The Artist is confirmed for LONDON FIELD DAY FESTIVAL 2012
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Band:CHAD VANGAALEN
Album:SOFT AIRPLANE
Label:ALTIN VILLAGE AND MINE RECORDS
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:SINGER/SONGWRITER
"Retreating a bit from the wide-ranging experimentation of 2007's Skelliconnection, Canadian singer-songwriter Chad VanGaalen favors a low-key form of indie folk-rock on his third album. Featuring his most direct and immediately appealing set of pop songs yet, with none of the brief noise interludes that decorated his first two albums, Soft Airplane features impressively varied tunes like the Beck-like rocker "Poisonous Heads" and the pretty but unsettling falsetto reverie "Molten Light." This is VanGaalen's most accomplished and intriguing album so far" - Hmv
EU vinyl release for this Sub Pop album - Comes in Gatefold Sleeved Vinyl for the first time with drawings by Chad VanGaalen on the inside.
Includes 2 vinyl only bonus tracks and MP Download code.
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Band:TANNHAUSER STERBEN AND DAS TOD
Album:EIGENGIFT
Label:ALTIN VILLAGE AND MINE RECORDS
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Drone/Ambient
After several offerings on their own Editionmutation imprint, the Berlin duo Tannhäuser Sterben & das Tod, comprised of Thomas Mahmoud (ex- VON SPAR) and Gerald Mandl (MEDIENGRUPPE TELEKOMMANDER), have completed their first full length Eigengift for Altin Village & Mine Records. Tannhäuser Sterben & das Tod‘s cut-ups and layering results in a diverse yet stunningly coherent album that with its compositional playfulness and focus on rhythmic, ritualistic delivery plunges into the space. We are politely shown, and then left to the aesthetic potential that is to be unfolded where there is no contradiction between vocal meditations and reggaeton guitars, field recordings and anthemic choruses: an uncannily familiar place.
LP comes with MP3 Download Code
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Band:SVEN KACIREK
Album:THE KENYA SESSIONS
Label:ALTIN VILLAGE AND MINE RECORDS
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Drone/Ambient
Sven Kacirek studied drums and marimba at the conservatory in Arnhem/NL, at the Musikhochschule in Hamburg and at the Drummers Collective in New York City. Besides his cooperation with musicians and bands like Hauschka, F.S. Blumm, Jan Dvorak, Jan Plewka, Martin Bisi, Alexander Schubert and Uwe Haas, Sven has composed and performed music for modern dance theatre pieces and contemporary ballet. He worked with choreographers like Angela Guerreiro, Filip van Huffel, Antje Pfundtner, Johnny Lloyd among others. In 2009 Sven Kacirek composed the soundtrack of the movie “Five Ways to Dario” by Dario Aguirre. This is the first time „The Kenya Sessions“ will be available on Vinyl, licensed from the german label Pingipung. For „The Kenya Sessions“, Sven Kacirek traveled through Kenya, equipped with loads of microphones. A pretty solid idea. On „The Kenya Sessions“ we find recordings of kenyan singers and musicians carefully composed to a flow of 15 pieces mixed with Percussion-, Marimba- and Piano-elements. What strikes most while listening is the outstanding quality of the recordings and the accuracy of Sven‘s work. It‘s hard to tell which elemnts are added via overdub and what was recorded in Kenya which results in a very organic listening experience. That‘s when a „drumming kenyan community‘s welcome ceremony“ gently forms into the track „Dear Anastasia“ sung by 80 year old kenyan women Ogoya Nengo. Sven‘s sensitivity for „the gentle tone“ which could cast a spell on the listener already on „The Palmin Sessions“, gets lifted to a whole new level on this kenyan cooperation ...
First time on vinyl - includes Vinyl-Only Bonus Track “Kayamba Fever”
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Band:PTTRNS
Album:SCIENCE PINATA
Label:ALTIN VILLAGE AND MINE RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:Post Punk
PTTRNS are three charming multi-instrumentalists who share a doorbell in Cologne, Germany and who know exactly what they’re doing. Their idea of music isn’t restricted to the sheer production of sound, but instead contains an entire aesthetics, a claim to nothing less than the participation of everyone, the breaking down of distance and the orchestration of a concert as a communal performance – everyone plays everything. After 32 months, two cassette tapes and three vinyl singles, „Science Piñata“ is the first PTTRNS album, produced by Guido Lucas, mastered by Josh Bonati (Aa) and nicely packaged by Our Polite Society. But most of all, „Science Piñata“ is a successful documentation of their restlessness and energy, in its organic immediacy far away from a fixation on technique while still skillful and elaborate. An outstanding pop-sensibility, clearly informed by disco and afrobeat, is worked to give polyrhythmic post-punk-layers their soul back and to create something genuinely new and sincere in the process. The ‚thinking (wo)man’s dance album’, if you will.
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Band:BARR
Album:ATLANTIC OCEAN BLUES
Label:SAKUNTALA
Format:CD
Genre:Prog Rock
"Atlantic Ocean Blues" is a tribute to the sea, the sun, space and the music that's coloured by these elements. It has been four years since "Skogsbo Is The Place", BARR's latest effort that was recorded in a derelict cottage owned by a relative. It's BARR's time to step out of that cottage, to find their way into the forest and in the studio. Into a musical world that the band always dreamed of.
"Atlantic Ocean Blues" is in addition to an constant evolving band also a homage to the forest, to the darkness and to folk psychadelia. A true masterpiece and a story about a bands step into wilderness and unknown grounds. And they sure master it.
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Band:DARXTAR
Album:AGED TO PERFECTION
Label:Transubstans
Format:CD
Genre:Prog Rock
DARXTAR originally begun as a one-man project in 1989 and have over the years become known as space rock-revival pioneers in the early 90's (on albums such as Darker, Daybreak & Sju), pretentious concept album makers in the early 00's (Tombola) and most recently as experimental psychedelic songwriters in 2005 with "We Came too Late". In many ways "Aged to Perfection" picks up where "We Came too Late" left off with its focus on great tunes, but with the bands initial space rock fundament added to the package. The band always strives for full artistic freedom and have once again written, recorded, mixed and produced the album all by themselves.
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Band:ODYSSEY
Album:ABYSMAL DESPAIR
Label:Transubstans
Format:CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
"Abysmal Despair" is ODYSSEY's much anticipated debut album on Transubstans Records. Heavy & harsh stonerrock deluxe with a great feeling for riffs, the band hits it hard, and hit is good ! Think stonerrock, add some noise and sludge - and you get a vague idea what this trio is all about. Linköpings daily news recently wrote - "ODYSSEY's performances are probably the most energetic and violent in Sweden at the moment, and definetly worth that detour to witness..." This recording is much the same - energetic and violent... ELECTRIC WIZARD meets EYEHATEGOD meets ACRIMONY. A great debut album !!
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Band:BARRETT ELMORE
Album:WOODLANDS
Label:TRAIL RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:Psych/Garage
Barrett Elmore was founded in 2008 in Sweden. It started out as a trio and at first played raw instrumental blues. Soon they moved on to psychedelic and psychedelic-inspired music. When the singer Mikaela Eriksson, joined the band, they finally found the sound and style reflected in their music today. This has resulted in their debut album "Woodlands." Pink Floyd is obviously one of the big influences, Nordic woods, the theme of the album, further emphasized by the elements of melancholy Swedish folk songs
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Band:BEYOND O MATIC
Album:TIME TO GET UP
Label:TRAIL RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:Psych/Garage
This album of San Francisco's space rock band Beyond-0-Matic. This album is a mix of psychotic mind bending melodic jams with extended trippy "Can" like loopy textures. The collection of conventional and non conventional instruments such as electric accordion, the long stiff finger of doom, the cross5 guitar, flute, melodeon, harmonium has been occasionally used for multi instrumental improvisational works during the studio recording sessions in 2003-2004. With a 70s style vocal of Peter Fuhry the band is flying into a hard defined zone of beyond - with a progressive message of time. Originally released 2010.
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Band:IN THE LABYRINTH
Album:ONE TRAIL TO HEAVEN
Label:TRAIL RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:Psych/Folk
Peter Lindahl is the founder and leader of the band In the Labyrinth. He created some engaging music in which Northern psychedelic folk blends harmoniously with Middle Eastern music in the mid to late 1990s and has released this new album "One Trail to Heaven" on the Trail Records label. The tracks included on the album are the most fascinating compositions with a new re-mastered sound as well as some previously unreleased material and alternate versions of songs from Peter's exclusive personal archive. Produced, engineered, mixed and mastered by Peter Lindahl in his studio in Stockholm, Sweden. Recordings were made between 1993 and 2004. ORIGINALLY RELEASED 2011.
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Band:OLE LUKKOYE
Album:PETROGLYPHS
Label:TRAIL RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:Psych/Garage
20 years anniversary collection by St. Petersburg (Russia} rooted ethnic band Ole Lukkoye. Their music is "folklore from nowhere" fuse of ancient shamanistic Siberian folk with modern contemporary traditions. Amazing combination of electric & acoustic music with a tribal beats and unusual selection of ethnic instruments (ocarina, darabuka, vargan, djemde) from all over the world. "Petroglyphs" contains the most trippy hits the band ever recorded and include some tracks exclusively written for this compilation. This album released with improved sound quality in limited collectors edition fold out digi-pack. Originally released 2010
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Band:SKY CRIES MARY
Album:SPACE BETWEEN THE DROPS
Label:TRAIL RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:Psych/Garage
"Space Between The Drops" by legendary Seattle trance rock band Sky Cries Mary has been released with a beautiful sound and contains a collection of the most trippy ambient compositions ever recorded by the band, and some exclusive tracks for this album. Psychedelic sounds with a touch of ambient space supplemented by poetry, acoustic instrumentation and exotic female vocals. Originally released in 2009.
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Band:SKY CRIES MARY
Album:TAKING THE STAGE LIVE 1997-2005
Label:TRAIL RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:Psych/Garage
This album is a collection of the bands most original and impressive live performances from the 1997 to 2005 period. Although these gripping, partly improvisational compositions were recorded at different times and on different locations, we tried to preserve the magical aura of the integrity and drive that is characteristic of this legendary bands live performances... originally released in 2011. The sound on several of the previously unreleased compositions on this album was engineered by Krist Novoselic of Nirvana.
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Band:SIDDHARTHA
Album:TRIP TO INNERSELF
Label:TRAIL RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:Prog Rock
Amazing and colourful rock sutra from Turkey! Siddhartha is interesting blend of progressive space sound like Pink Floyd, Porcupine Tree with trippy rock ballads. This album is full of major mood swings from very serene and tranquil moments to the all out blitzkrieg jam sessions. Siddhartha is full of surprises and each songs carries its own colours and characteristics always sounding highly original. This is an essential recording and will absolutely remain a classic.
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Band:VARIOUS ARTISTS
Album:TRIP WAVE
Label:TRAIL RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:Prog Rock
This is a collection of psychedelic/progressive music from Russian, organized chronologically, over a 20 year period to highlight the best of the country's offerings in these genres. Many of the tracks were previously unreleased or difficult to find versions of celebrated tracks of the past. The album is a great instrumental adventure with some vocals in Russian. It is full of wildly different sounds that provide a contrast between what has been traditionally delivered from a Western European or North American perspective in either of the progressive or psychedelic genres.
Available as a collector’s edition cd featuring an enhanced sound quality, this is sure to be a prized possession for connoisseurs of unconventional music anywhere. The subtitle of this collection reveals already how there is some kind of fitting well together amount of bands in Russia who have some root in psychedelia. The main title “TripWave” in facts describes it a bit in what sense or direction. Almost any of these of these bands show aspects of a late night trippy trance-related jammed way of playing, with all the time of the world , while their roots are related or rooted in post-rock song styles, an alternative wave of shoegazed rock.
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Band:SUPERCHRIST
Album:HOLY SHIT.
Label:Hells Headbangers
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
Chicago's original beer metal blazers SUPERCHRIST have come staggering back from the studio with "Holy Shit", a ten-song pack of new rippers that finds the band fully charged and ready for business. Featuring such instant classics as "Run to the Night", "Black Thunder", and "Hot Tonight", "Holy Shit" delivers 100% heavy metal rock and roll for the under-dressed and overserved. Get it on!
Features members/former members of NACHTMYSTIUM, DAWNBRINGER, HIGH SPIRITS, WASTELANDER
RIYL Motörhead, Tank, NWOBHM and classic Punk.
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Band:WITCHTRAP
Album:VENGEANCE IS MY NAME
Label:Hells Headbangers
Format:CD
Genre:Thrash/Crossover Metal
Attention headbanger, WITCHTRAP are back with their 3rd full-length studio album of dirty heavy thrash Black Rock 'N Roll! Six years have passed since the last megawatt devastation "No Anesthesia," too much time for sure! "Vengeance Is My Name" is a continuation of where they left off and is sure to rock ya 'til you bleed!! MARKETING AND PROMOTION •Full servicing to all major & underground print & digital press with rave reviews •
Raging since the late 90’s, WITCHTRAP were at the forefront of the Thrash revival in the 2000’s
RIYL early Destruction, Kreator, Assassin, Motorhead, Sodom
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Band:ATRIARCH
Album:FOREVER THE END
Label:SEVENTH RULE
Format:CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
"A towering, grief-stricken album, these four songs are able to balance a fierce rawness with swells of atmosphere that keep pushing songs forward without turning towards prissy symphonics." [9/10] - DECIBEL “I would buy this." - Buzz Osborne / MELVINS Hailing from Portland, OR, Atriarch features members of Graves At Sea, Trees, Final Conflict and Get Hustle. Formed in 2009, Atriarch sought out to combine elements of goth and deathrock while making sure to keep it heavy. “Forever the End” marks the first full length by Atriarch, now released on Seventh Rule in a limited edition letterpress packaging (Printed by Stumptown Printers). The CD format was originally self released by the band and is now out of print.
For fans of Neurosis, Thergothon, and Christian Death
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Band:AUTHOR AND PUNISHER
Album:URSUS AMERICANUS
Label:SEVENTH RULE
Format:CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
“An ultra-intense blast of industrial metal performed by enslaved heavy machinery, and at it's most intense, sounds like a symphony of hellish steel presses and tank-tread drum machine rhythms..." -Crucial Blast
"Like Godflesh meets The Bug meets Flying Lotus." – MSN Meta
l “This grinding, overdriven track has, in fact, inspired us to formally, uh, dub Author & Punisher’s music “mechadoom.” Listen at your own peril, mortals!” – Decibel Magazine
Author & Punisher is an industrial doom metal, one man band utilizing primarily custom designed and fabricated machines and speakers. The devices draw heavily on aspects of industrial automation and robotics, focusing on the eroticism of interaction with machine. The machines are designed to require significant force from the performer, aligning he or she with the plodding doom influenced sounds that are created. Author & Punisher has performed and shown these machines in festivals and exhibitions in the United States and abroad extensively. His new record, focused primarily on the newer Dub Machines, entitled “Ursus Americanus”, will be his first release on Seventh Rule.
For fans of Godflesh, Skinny Puppy, Sunn O)))
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Band:STEEL THREADS
Album:TIMING IS EVERYTHING
Label:Rocksector
Format:CD
Genre:Rock
A unique sound – “Power Folk” – based on a delightful blend of acoustic guitar, double-bass & fiddle, with a vocal tone at times not unlike John Lennon.
“I like their sound.. a very good product” Blues Matters
“Mind-blowingly feel-good” Phoenix FM
“An English Hayseed Dixie/Hugh Cornwell cross, smashed in the face with a tiny bit of Zeppelin” ROAR Rock
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Band:OCTOBER SKY
Album:THE APHOTIC SEASON
Label:Rocksector
Format:CD
Genre:Rock
Epic, atmospheric, ambient, modern, melodic rock from Canada.
For fans of Muse, HIM. Extraordinary infectious hooks & mass appeal.
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Band:ATLANTIS
Album:METAL WILL NEVER DIE
Label:ROCK IT UP
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
ATHLANTIS come with their second album called “M.W.N.D. (Metal Will Never Die)” by IceWarrior Records and Steve Vawamas presents his next masterpiece. Together with guitar player Pier Gonella, Enry Sydoz (drums) and the great singer Jack Spider create this team an album full of Power, Melody, Emotions and Heaviness.
RIYL Bands like LABYRINTH, SHADOWS OF STEEL, VISION DIVINE, STAMINA or ARTHEMIS.
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Band:EMBASSY OF SILENCE
Album:ANTLER VELVET
Label:Ravenheart
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
“Antler Velvet” is as an album that brings more groove into the set style of the band. It consists of 10 songs, out of which 9 were composed solely for this album. Some songs of “Antler Velvet” take the listener on a trip inside the human imagination and even insanity, while others tell stories to inspire and ignite. Furthermore, the album is about reinventing and renewing oneself. Embassy of Silence’s previous album, “Euphorialight” was received extremely well by reviewers all around the world, and it made the charts as well with the single “Soul-Broken”, which was Radio Rock´s #1 most downloaded song for an amazing total of 8 weeks in a row!
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Band:THE ELECTRIC LADY
Album:BLACK MOON
Label:Ravenheart
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
Formed by singer-songwriter Minna Ora and guitarist Kari Ora in 2007, the story of this Finnish Melodic Hard Rock Band took a dramatic twist when Minna met French journalist and artist Nicole Morgan, who persuaded the band to broaden their horizons and take their music worldwide. A strong friendship was born and Nichole went on to contribute several of the lyrics on this, their début album.
They have their own distinctive style, but to give you an idea, just think Pat Benetar, Pretenders, Lita Ford and rock era Gary Moore.
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Band:CIANIDE
Album:A DESCENT INTO HELL
Label:DARK DESCENT
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
For nearly 25 years, Chicago, Illinois-based Cianide have been summoning only the finest doomy death metal the underground has to offer. The year 2011 was a comeback year of sorts for the band as they introduced their latest opus while playing highprofile fests such as Maryland Death Fest and more. Cianide continues to show younger bands just how this style of music is intended to play while remaining a force to be reckoned with in this still sprawling scene.
Now after almost 20 years since its initial release, Cianide’s second album “A Descent Into Hell” is available once again with added bonus tracks including their 1993 demo “Cianide Kills.” Sure to please even the most discriminate death metal aficionado, “A Descent Into Hell” is a massive album that is arguably Cianide’s finest hour --- and finally available once more.
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Band:NIGHT FLIGHT ORCHESTRA
Album:INTERNAL AFFAIRS
Label:CORONER
Format:CD
Genre:Classic Rock/Metal
"The Night Flight Orchestra" started like so many others as an innocent yet serious drunken idea when Björn Strid (Soilwork) and David Andersson (Mean Streak, Soilwork session player) were on the road together somewhere in North America in 2007. Björn and David were bonding over what they considered "classic" or not, from rock'n'roll conspiracies to being arrested in a lobby with nothing but leather pants on. All those scenarios, fictional or real, needed a soundtrack. They also came to think that whether you're on a metal tour or not, a lot of classic rock songs say it all and can really lend you a helping hand and make you forget about everything, especially when in motion or travelling. The classic escape. The never-ending road trip. The transatlantic night flight. It may sound simple and naive but what it all comes down to is that we all need that soundtrack to feel extra special, whether you have been arrested in a lobby or not. It didn't take long before bass player Sharlee D'Angelo (Arch Enemy, Spiritual Beggars) joined forces as well as keyboard player Richard Larsson (Von Benzo) and drummer Jonas Källsbäck (Mean Streak). The goal was to reclaim the 70's/early 80's sense for classic melody, the forgotten recipe to a timeless song, preferably a song mentioning a city, street name or an exhilarating alcoholic beverage. Anything that will have you spitting out the word "classic".
Björn “Speed” Strid (Soilwork) on vocals , Sharlee D'Angelo (Arch Enemy) on bass. • Original project by very known metal artists who challenge themselves in a different music genre, not another metal side-project.
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Band:BUFFALO GRILLZ
Album:MANZO CRIMINALE
Label:Subsound Records
Format:CD
Genre:Grindcore
The purpose of the band ,inspired by the famous steak house, is offer to the listener a “barbecue” of violent sound. A bastard mixing of the early Napalm Death , Nasum and Asesino. Grindcore like there is no tomorrow: guitars straight in your face, no lyrics scream and overdose of blastbeats, this is the Buffalo Grillz philosophy.
RIYL: Nasum, Entombed, Insect Warfere, Rotten Sound, Napalm Death...
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Band:GORGUTS
Album:FROM WISDOM TO HATE
Label:WAR ON MUSIC
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Death Metal
Groundbreaking Jazz-blasted techincal death metal. In sound and style, FWTH is actually more predecessor than successor to the previous release "Obscura". Less frenetic, more focused and more precise in its ultimate goal. Where "Obscura" shot at you from a thousand different directions at once, this album hits you square between the eyes with one single thread of light. Still remaining are the guitar psychoscrapes from Luc Lemay and newly-acquired axeman Daniel Mongrain (VOIVOD, MARTYR), but they have been more skilfully interspersed between the bodies of the main riffs. A painfully underrated album, FWTH is perfect combination of the early traditional Gorguts records, and the avant garde mania of Obscura
Gorguts are soon to perform select dates as direct support on the upcoming ‘Chuck Shuldiner Tribute Tour’
Never before released on vinyl • Limited Pressing!!!
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Band:GORGUTS
Album:OBSCURA
Label:WAR ON MUSIC
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Death Metal
Relentless, punishing & highly evolved death metal compositions which compel repeated listens and command respect. A definite but logical departure from their earlier more traditional RoadRunner offerings, Obscura sees the band return after 5 years with a new lineup and a much more original, innovative and extreme approach to metal. Obscura is technical, jarring, quite often harsh and discordant, yet maintains a seamless flow and includes elements of disciplined groove and sophisticated harmony. It is quite rightly regarded as a groundbreaking and pioneering work of extreme metal. Over an hour long, this unrivalled monsterous onslaught comes to vinyl for the first time ever - Double Gatefold LP, 180g limited pressing on classic black wax
Never before released on vinyl • Limited Pressing • 180g Vinyl • Gatefold Sleeve!
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Band:INTO ETERNITY
Album:BURIED IN OBLIVION
Label:WAR ON MUSIC
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Death Metal
Progressive / melodic death metal with impressive technical stylings and dangerously infectious hooks. Into Eternity's signature sound is a metal hybrid which is often difficult to classify. Seamless interplay between clean and death vocals, virtuosic guitar shreds leading into simple and appropriate rhythmic death metal riffs, precise and extreme drumming right up front in the mix. Often compared to later era a Death or Control Denied meets Dream Theatre, but Into Eternity have a much more song oriented approach then most bands of their musical caliber. Underlying the onslaught of ability is a foundation of unforgettable hooks and tasteful songwriting. Buried in Oblivion (2004) is regarded by many fans as their best work to date.
First time ever on vinyl, pressing strictly limited to a single run of 1000 copies on classic black wax.
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Band:INTO ETERNITY
Album:DEAD OR DREAMING
Label:WAR ON MUSIC
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Death Metal
Progressive / melodic death metal with impressive technical stylings and dangerously infectious hooks. Into Eternity's signature sound is a metal hybrid which is often difficult to classify. Seamless interplay between clean and death vocals, virtuosic guitar shreds leading into simple and appropriate rhythmic death metal riffs, precise and extreme drumming right up front in the mix. Often compared to later era a Death or Control Denied meets Dream Theatre, but Into Eternity have a much more song oriented approach then most bands of their musical caliber. Underlying the onslaught of ability is a foundation of unforgettable hooks and tasteful songwriting. Dead or Dreaming (2003) broke Into Eternity into the international metal scene, and was their first release with Century Media.
First time ever on vinyl, pressing strictly limited to a single run of 1000 copies on classic black wax.
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Band:SACRIFICE
Album:THE ONES I CONDEMN
Label:WAR ON MUSIC
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Thrash/Crossover Metal
First album with the original members since 1991. Sacrifice returns with one of the best Thrash Metal albums in history, showing all elements that made them an influential band in the Metal scene. One of the only bands ever to pick up where they left off 20 years ago. Sacrifice are back - the masters are here to show the kids how its done. Limited pressing Gatefold.
Special Edition Gatefold Pressing Limited to 1000 Copies with full Color Printed Inner Sleeve.
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Band:UNTIMELY DEMISE
Album:CITY OF STEEL
Label:WAR ON MUSIC
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Thrash/Crossover Metal
Debut full length from the Canadian metal battalion, finally available on vinyl. A seamless fusing of old school thrash and modern speed / death metal. Untimely Demise succeed perfectly at maintaining all the necessary elements of classic thrash and speed metal, while coming across as more than just a retrorecycled act like so many as of late. Guitar driven, arpeggios galore, heroic solos, and hook driven songwriting, City of Steel echoes the Peace Sells / Rust In Peace era of Megadeth, or even a take on Individual Though Patterns / Symbolic era Death. Produced, engineered and featuring guest solos by renowned guitarist Glen Drover (Megadeth, King Diamond).
Limited pressing on classic black wax featuring artwork from the one and only Ed Repka.
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Band:THE RIPPS
Album:HERATACHES AND HANGOVERS
Label:GHOULISH RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:Indie/Shoegaze
The Ripps are a British band based in Coventry, West Midlands. Following the success of their first album, Long Live The Ripps, they return with their long awaited second album merging a romatic reminiscent sound with their punky roots.
The band have had regular play on BBC Coventry & Warwickshire and have been featured on Hollyoaks multiple times and on Channel 5 Idents!
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Band:BANGERS
Album:GOOD LIVING
Label:SPECIALIST SUBJECT
Format:7" VINYL
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
Brand new 7” e.p from Cornwall's Bangers. Follow up to last year's debut full length Small Pleasures, Good Livin' is 4 more tracks of down to earth, gritty, catchy, punk rock.
Split release with Kiss Of Death (US) and Angry Chuck Records (Russia).
For fans of: Off With Their Heads, Hot Water Music, Lemuria, Leatherface - Limited to only 700 copies
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Band:VARIOUS ARTISTS
Album:THANK YOU SKINHEAD GIRL
Label:SUNNY BASTARDS
Format:DVD
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
Thank You Skinhead Girl is an independent documentary made with detailing the filmmakers experience of being in care and becoming a skinhead girl during that time. It gives insight through a female perspective into a sub-youth culture that has been one of the most misunderstood, of the youth groups. Through the voice of the filmmaker, interviews, poetry and archive footage we are taken into the personal reflections of that time, documenting the local Oxford Skinhead scene from 1969- 89. Starring Roddy Moreno from Opressed, Gimp fist, music by Mr Symarip, Inflatables & Opressed,...
Recently running off the back of the BBC2 TV series, Melvyn Bragg’s Reel History of Britain, it was screened as part of the BBC Learning ‘Reel History’ Archive Partners special event in October 2011 at The Phoenix Picturehouse Oxford...
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Band:WIDOWS
Album:DEATH VALLEY DUCHESS
Label:BAD NEWS
Format:CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
DEATH VALLEY DUCHESS was recorded at MOOT GROUP STUDIOS in NOTTINGHAM with Jonny Carter (Pitchshifter) and Paul Yeadon (Bivouac) who have recorded such folks as Send More Paramedics, Sanzen, and Bring Me The Horizon.
“Widows are DEFINITELY here to rock our faces off and bringing an unacknowledged hardcore element to the table serves to set them apart and mark them as anything BUT another generic knock-off stoner band” - Sleeping Shaman.
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Band:SECOND H SAM
Album:SECOND H SAM
Label:SHIT MUSIC FOR SHIT PEOPLE
Format:LP VINYL
Genre:Psych/Garage
Second H. Sam is a solo project by Samuele Gottardello. In less than a year of live shows he amazed the audience with his minimal approach to the music, inspired by glowing romantic scenarios, seen through psychedelic and lo-fi glasses. In his music you can find a little of Johnny Cash, Townes Van Zandt, Hank Williams, Fred Neil, Nick Cave, Lee Hazlewood, Fabrizio De Andrè, Daniel Johnston, Syd Barret, Beck e Thurstone Moore. They say about him: "A blues author from the age of the computers, a Muddy Waters with a MIDi keyboard, a Daniel Johnston without obesity and ADHD syndrome. Reverbered semi acoustic guitar with vocal sinking in a sea of tape-echoes". The four songs from this debut EP were recorded at the “Outside Inside” in Montebelluna, with the artistic production of Emanuele "Nene" Baratto from the Movie Star Junkies. Sam is the singer of the Hormonas from Venezia and the Buzz Aldrin from Bologna. He was also the singer of the John Woo, a punk wave band from the 2000s.
For fans of Johnny Cash, Townes Van Zandt, Hank Williams, Fred Neil, Nick Cave, Lee Hazlewood
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Band:STRANGE HANDS
Album:DEAD FLOWERS
Label:SHIT MUSIC FOR SHIT PEOPLE
Format:LP VINYL
Genre:Psych/Garage
The psychedelic garage sound of Strange Hands was born in 2008 in Bordeaux, France. Fascinated by psychedelic experiences and 60's music Lucas, Melvyn & Victor decided to create Strange Hands. The formation of the band remained as primitive as possible. The band uses twelve strings guitar, guitar and drums or guitar, organ and drums on the other formation. Their first 7" "Dead Frozen Deer" was released by the famous Netherland garage record label "A Fistful Of Records" (Movie Star Junkies, Sex Beet, Black Time) in April 2010. The band has been on two big tours in Europe (France, Italy, Hungary, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Belgium...) during 2011/2012 and will tour Europe again in July 2012 "Dead Flowers", Strange Hands debut album will be out in May on the Italian record label "Shit Music For Shit People" (Vermillon Sands, JC Satàn, Love Boat.) and the brand new french record label "Azbin Records" (Regal,Le Pécheur). Then let the flower grow in your mind !
For fans of Demon's Claws, 13th Floor Elevators, Black Lips
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Band:PROCESS OF GUILT
Album:FAEMIN
Label:DIVISION
Format:CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Third album for these Portuguese sludge monsters! Taking its origin inW the doom/ death scene, the band has slowly evolved toward something ways more personal and FÆMIN is here to prove that in such a manner that you’ll never forget it! Slow, loud and evil, their music strikes you like dozens of mammoth and takes your throat in such a way that it looks like it will never end. The mood is gloomy and the feeling for doomed melodies is completely beyond imagination. A dream turns to a nightmare, you’re listening to Process of Guilt’s FÆMIN.
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Band:VESPERIAN SORROW
Album:STORMWINDS OF AGES
Label:THE PATH LESS TRAVELLED
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
In addition to two full-length albums (1999's "Beyond the Cursed Eclipse" and 2001's "Psychotic Sculpture") released by Holland's Displeased Records and 2006's self-released "Regenesis Creation," Vesperian Sorrow has been featured on four compilation albums as well, including Metal Blade's "Blackend V".
Since their inception in 1998, they have toured throughout Europe and North America, playing shows and festivals in Germany, England, Canada, Mexico, and most of the United States. Carrying the Texas banner with pride, Vesperian Sorrow are a band well-respected throughout the entire metal community with intentions of upholding that respect and continuing to earn it with a progressively darkening evolution of symphonic extreme metal.
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Band:GAREEDA
Album:GAREEDA
Label:WASTED STATE
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
Formed in the first quarter of 2010 following turbulent times in not just the local music scene, but the UK, Gareeda formed over a mutual taste in music, principles and methods of consuming bourbon.
The original line-up of Stu Gordon, Tommy Concrete, Michael Branagh & Toni Martone quickly entered the studio and started writing the first album. Following an offer to join The Exploited as guitarist, lyricist and singer Tommy had to step aside due to touring commitments. Following a search of replacements, Gareeda recruited Stu Lillis to take the mic, bringing his own take on Tommy’s outstanding lyrics.
Mixing all the best bits from blues, metal, rock and roll and booze, Gareeda’s sound is unforgettable. This is a band that is here to stay. And although, the time from inception to public unveiling has been longer than other bands, it proves the band’s intent and dedication.
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Band:BELAKOR
Album:OF BREATH AND BONE
Label:KOLONY
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
BE’LAKOR is considered n. 1 melodic death metal band from Australia, despite the young age of its members. ‘Of Breath and Bone’ is BE’LAKOR‘s 3rd album, following the huge success of the previous ‘Stone’s Reach’, that led the band to play big international festivals like Summer Breeze 2010 in Germany (the band is re-confirmed for Summer Breeze 2012) and to tour Europe with single shows in Portugal and UK. BE’LAKOR can count on a strong fan-base with almost 8,000 fans on Facebook and a constantly growing following thanks to fans’ massive word-of-mouth.
‘...the most important Melodeath album of 2012...' (Metal.de)
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Band:DOL AMMAD
Album:COSMIC GODS EPISODE ONE
Label:ELECTRONICARTMETAL
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
Symphonic-progressive metal band Dol Ammad present their 3rd full length album
3 music videos for “Hyperspeed”, “Stargate Pyramid” and “Magus Invicta” on YouTube
The only choir-fronted metal band in the world!!!
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Band:DOL AMMAD
Album:COSMIC GODS EPISODE ONE - LP
Label:ELECTRONICARTMETAL
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Metal
Symphonic-progressive metal band Dol Ammad present their 3rd full length album
3 music videos for “Hyperspeed”, “Stargate Pyramid” and “Magus Invicta” on YouTube
The only choir-fronted metal band in the world
Limited Edition Gatefold - 180gram - Red splatter Vinyl LP with digital download Dropcard included
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Band:NECRO RITUAL
Album:NERTHUS DEMISE
Label:Iron Age
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
Black Metal played with utter conviction, passion and hatred!
Infamous for their excellent brutal live act in the UK...
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Band:FOLLOWBANE
Album:CEREMONIA
Label:RED RIVET
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
Symphonic death metal unit from the ancient capital of Kyoto city. This is their 5th album.
For fans of DISSECTION, DIMMU BORGIR etc…
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Band:X NAVI ET
Album:SOUNDTRACKS FOR THE DYING MOMENTS
Label:8MERCH
Format:LP VINYL
Genre:Drone/Ambient
"Soundtracks for the Dying Moments" is the title of Rafał Iwanski's full-length solo debut album, released on limited to 250 copies vinyl via Instant Classic/8 Merch.
Heavy like Lustmord, climatic like Steve Roach, hypnotic like Z'ev
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Band:FIABA
Album:LA PELLE NELLA LUNA
Label:JOLLY ROGER
Format:CD
Genre:Prog Rock
FIABA, after 7 years! This is the heaviest and darkest album of their discography, a concept album about wolves. It’s almost difficult to describe FIABA music, as there are too many influences (hard, progressive, folk...) leaded by an unique and original stlye. The brainchild of drummer Bruno Rubino, FIABA are a Sicilian five-piece band (bass, drums, vocals and dual guitars) who mix prog metal with medieval folk. They've been compared to everything from FATES WARNING, MAGELLAN and RUSH to KING CRIMSON and Angelo Branduardi...
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Band:FIABA
Album:LA PELLE - LP
Label:JOLLY ROGER
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Prog Rock
FIABA, after 7 years! This is the heaviest and darkest album of their discography, a concept album about wolves. It’s almost difficult to describe FIABA music, as there are too many influences (hard, progressive, folk...) leaded by an unique and original stlye. The brainchild of drummer Bruno Rubino, FIABA are a Sicilian five-piece band (bass, drums, vocals and dual guitars) who mix prog metal with medieval folk. They've been compared to everything from FATES WARNING, MAGELLAN and RUSH to KING CRIMSON and Angelo Branduardi. LTD VINYL LP.
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Band:IN.SI.DIA
Album:ISTINTO E RABBIA
Label:JOLLY ROGER
Format:CD
Genre:Thrash/Crossover Metal
IN.SI.DIA have a really cult status in the Metal scene in Italy.
Nowadays it's pretty hard to find cd copies of this thrash metal gem, as it’s sold out since a long time. On Ebay it's sold for really expensive prices (up to 50,00/60 ,00 € !)Finally it is now reissued via Jolly Roger Records
For fans of old school thrash metal, especially of the first Metallica releases.
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Band:IN.SI.DIA
Album:GUARDA DENTRO TE
Label:JOLLY ROGER
Format:CD
Genre:Thrash/Crossover Metal
An Italian Thrash Metal Classic from 1995.
Long overdue reissue - RIYL Early Metallica,Bay Area Thrash etc.
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Band:THE STUBS
Album:KILL YOURSELF
Label:8MERCH
Format:VINYL 7"
Genre:Garage Punk
The Stubs is a garage rock'n'roll band formed on the ashes of Jordy Warsaws, Blind Date and Hulk Hogan. The Stubs debuted in 2011 with the self titled album, released in Poland by Antena Krzyku.
Intense as Motorhead, energetic as The Hives and catchy as The Hellacopters
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Band:VARIOUS ARTISTS
Album:THRASHING DAMNATION
Label:8MERCH
Format:CD
Genre:Thrash/Crossover Metal
The best compilation of Modern Polish Thrash / Metal you will ever hear!
TRACK LISTING 1. FORTRESS - I Like to Watch 2. FORTRESS - Justice Denied 3. INTOXICATED - Night Assassin 4. INTOXICATED - The Choice is Yours 5. METALIATOR - Jeden z Milionów 6. METALIATOR - Pocisk 7. SOUL COLLECTOR - I Saw 8. SOUL COLLECTOR - Pure Fucking Evil 9. SWINIOPAS - Tony Hawk 10. SWINIOPAS - Reprezentuję JP (live) 11. SWINIOPAS - Nuklearna Pizza (live) 12. TERRORDOME - Silence (While the Violence is On) 13. TERRORDOME - Chemicals of Death 14. TERRORDOME - Goddamn Asskicking Well 15. WAR-SAW - Burn! 16. WAR-SAW - Nuclear Nightmare 17. PSYCHOPATH - Hate 18. PSYCHOPATH - Kings Shall Be Kings 19. THERMIT - Hatred 20. THERMIT - Thrash 21. TRAKTOR - I'll Laugh Last 22. TRAKTOR - Angel of Booze
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Band:THE CROSSROADS
Album:PARIAH
Label:8MERCH
Format:CD
Genre:Thrash/Crossover Metal
Polish Thrash Metallers debut CD
RIYL Death Angel,Arch Enemy,Exhumer,Hirax etc.
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Band:TERRORDROME
Album:WE`LL SHOW YOU MOSH BITCH
Label:8MERCH
Format:CD
Genre:Thrash/Crossover Metal
Eastern European Thrash masters first full length CD
RIYL SLayer, Municipal Waste, DRI...
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Band:FORMOSUS
Album:SIGNUM
Label:8MERCH
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
Polish Death Metallers new album...
RIYL At The Gates and early In Flames!
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Band:FORTRESS
Album:MODERN DAYS SOCIETY
Label:8MERCH
Format:CD
Genre:Thrash/Crossover Metal
Cracow based Thrash Metal Act
RIYL Overkill,Forbidden,Testament,Dark Angel...
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Band:LACRIMA
Album:OLD MANS HANDS
Label:8MERCH
Format:CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Polish Doom Metal masters!
RIYL Anathema,My Dying Bride, Paradise Lost...
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Band:LOKURAH
Album:THE TIME TO DO BETTER
Label:MandO MUSIC
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
Great album of modern straight in your face uncompromising French Metal act's second album! |
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