Excellent release of oppressive Dark Ambient.
Letum starts where the melancholic hymn of the debut ended up, with a further obvious improvement on the song-writing and expressive potentiality. The album carries the name of the atavic creature Letum as it was called in the Roman mythology, and Keres in the Greek one. Dwelling the underworld, he was the representation of the overtaking from the world of the living to the spiritual world of the dead, the concept is about a borderline experience between our life and beyond. Impressive guitar harmonies and disharmonies merge in a powerful dramatic emphasis.
2nd album of this incredible band from Ukraine of intense, technical and relentless brutal Death!! Imagine a hybrid between KRONOS, CRYPTOPSY, SEVERE TORTURE, DISAVOWED on speed! 14 songs with great production.
Great old-school black/death in the vein of Sarcofago and Beherit!
A bleak Black Metal vision, spewn from some undisclosed Illinois location, buzzes and hums with discordant maneuvers of rhythm, tension and noise. The vocals are choked, scraped and scourged against the manic noise-scape tundra and left to fend for themselves.
$8 US/Canada $11 World
Grey Rigorism shades MERRIMACK’s darkness to a more mysterious hue, with moments of teasingly drawn-out tension giving way to an explosive release. Progressive song constructs coil inward and outward upon themselves in acts of occult alchemy, exploring labyrinths of the soul few have the resolve to embark upon. MERRIMACK provide the torch to guide the way - submit yourself to Grey Rigorism! Recorded, mixed and mastered at Necromorbus Studios (Watain, Deathspell Omega)!
Mandatory for fans of Deathspell Omega, Leviathan, Funeral Mist and Marduk!
Debut release from this relatively unknown horde who could easily evolve to compete in the critically lauded Eastern European nationalist scene.
Released for the first time ever on vinyl, the legendary recording has returned! The corners / some edges of the sleeves were somewhat bent en route from Germany. We have confirmed that none of the vinyl was adversely impacted, but the sleeves appear slightly worn.
$16 US/Canada $26 World
The re-issue of the legendary debut of crushing Norwegian Death Metal featuring members of Borknagar, Cronian, and Gorgoroth. The 2CD features 2 versions of Blod-draum (the original recording and a version remastered by Dan Swano), a Dan Swano-remastered version of the Stormvold ep, as well as the bands two demos. Artwork and layout by Travis Smith.
$12 US/Canada $16 World
Another strong album from the prolific Moloch. Depressive Black Metal with Dark Ambient elements take us on a journey through Norse Mythology.
“Mer Morte” is a single unbroken thirty-four minute sludge-and-feedback feast that sprawls out even further into the dismal black void that these French doom junkies have been lurking in for the past six years. As with previous releases, Monarch move through massive blackened tar pits of low-end riff and sheets of gluey feedback that are stretched out into monolithic slabs of sound across "Mer Morte", a grim, glacial ultra-doom monolith that crawls at a saurian sub-tempo. It's the most droning, static, deathly doomdrone that Monarch have so far released, not really that propulsive, certainly very little of anything that you could call a "groove", but instead just floating, decaying and corrupted, massive rumbling crush hovering in a sea of yawning blackness.
MONARCH! unleash a slow motion avalanche of impossibly glacial, blackened sludge and hypnotic feedback, each song a series of epic tar pit riffs stretched out eternally over lumbering drums and the cavernous rumble of speaker cabinets. Over these yawning expanses of black void appears the demonic, throat-shredding shrieks and ghostly singing of Emilie, whose petite appearance belies one of the harshest throats in the underground Doom spectrum. Beyond heavy. MONARCH!'s mega-crawling ambient doom/drone/sludge follows in the grand tradition of fellow tar pit adventurers Melvins, Corrupted, Noothgrush, and Black Sabbath, and accompany their music with an iconoclastic design style that decorates their material with deceptively cute imagery drawing from the collective influence of Sanrio, Japanese animation, European graffiti, weirdo hardcore, and skateboard culture. This double CD set contains both MONARCH!'s newest album Die Tonight, and the now out-of-print Speak Of The Sea LP, both released in limited vinyl editions as European imports, with additional unreleased songs exclusive to this release. The North Amercian version of Dead Men Tell No Tales is presented in an offset-printed, 4-panel case printed by Stumptown Printers, with all new original artwork in the band's unique design style.
Since issuing its strictly limited Ad Nauseam demo in 2005, Monarque has quickly risen to become one of the best-know Black Metal groups of Quebec. For their first release under the Sepulchral banner, they now revisit their cult first recording, this time entirely re-recorded with 3 new songs and a new outro. With its freezing melodies and brooding melancholy, Ad Nauseam is without a doubt a classic and timeless Black Metal opus.
Lamented and fiery Black Metal which is of the pure old school variety!
Finland's Moonsorrow continue their reign as forerunners of the Folk / Viking Metal scene, crafting triumphant sounds of epic proportions. For fans of Finntroll and Agalloch!
Black Metal with the old grand flair of Polish rawness. Following closely in the footsteps of old Graveland, Fullmoon, Veles etc. Yet they have managed to keep their sound highly original. As a bonus on this CD, Graveland and Emperor covers are included!
4 hymns of Antichrist Underground Black Metal against Judeo Christianity.
One of the best releases from the legendary Moontower!
Excellent release of original, chaotic Death Metal. Easily their best work to date!
Full color cover, Pro-Printed DVD OFFICIALLY LICENSED from MORBOSIDAD! Total Black Metal Terror in Live in Oakland, CA, 12.18.04 + Live in Chicago 01.22.05!!! Includes Beherit Cover: Salomon´s Gate - Live in Salt Lake City!!!
Raw, depressive Black Metal featuring members of Misanthropy, Striid and Malefic from Xasthur!!!
Old School Black Metal from Sweden.
Originally released in 1993. The 2008 re-mastered re-issue comes with 6 bonus tracks and 20 pages booklet with unpublished photos. For fans of bands such as: DEMIGOD, XYSMA, NECRONY, CONVULSE, CARCASS, CARNAGE and ENTOMBED
Misanthropic raw German Black Metal. Recorded and mixed by Kanwulf of Nargaroth who also played some bass on the album.
Based on concept of death, astral elevation, after death, fear of the unknown, nightmare and evil. Five songs of morbid and raw French Black Metal.
Obscure harmonies, uniquely twisted guitar lines and the tortured, barbaric screams of Thorstadt yearn for the grave and urge the listener to follow along this depressive path.
Crushing assault from the Cezch Republic in an awesome debut album. Furious old school Death Metal that remembers the glorious times of early Dismember, Entombed, Unleashed or At The Gates.
Mortuus works with the primal, building ghostly fires. Chords strum measurably; dissonant jangles light the way like flickering candles. Raspy growls reverb into the distance, while drums steadily goad on the funeral procession. Basslines slowly roll like wagon wheels over dead bodies. Electricity hangs thick in the air. For some, this metal will seem lightless; others will revel in its shades of black.
$13 US/Canada $16 World
Excellent release of high-quality Black Metal from two former members of Lunar Aurora.
This 2CD is including all mournful tracks they've unleashed since they were born in the dismal night of 1993. Their music is depressive, mournful, heavy, extreme doom that should be. If you know Finish Doom gods Thergothon and Skepticism, you can easily guess what they are playing. No female vocal, no violin, here is only 2 hours of pure doom.
$11 US/Canada $14 World
The 2nd full length from Australia's Mournful Congregation. It is a masterpiece in 8 tracks of melancholy and despair.
Two years after the band's self titled album, Mourning Dawn is back with eight new pieces of despair and not less then 70 minutes of their unique painful Black/Dark Metal. The production is freezing, the material is slower then ever and together with the guest vocals of Jonathan Thery (Ataraxie, Hyadningar, Bethlehem, Funeralium), "For The Fallen" is definitely the sickest effort of this suicidal French band so far.
New mini album with 23 minutes of new material. Really dark mid tempo Satanic Black Metal.
Mysticum is INTENSE! Pulsing, pounding, insidious black metal. Astounding power and evil from this legendary Norweigan act. DVD includes Mysticum audio, a photo gallery and Chapters for easy navigation.
Great Black Metal Torture...severe punishment!
$13 US/Canada $20 World
Unholy Mexican Black Metal with members of Throne of Naya, Sachsenhausen, Wolfthroat and Cromlech. This CD is a re-release (Nov 2006) of their debut (and only) recording from 2005, originally limited to 150. This edition is exactly 1046 and handnumbered. Pro CD and booklet.
$8 US/Canada $11 World
Five tracks with nearly 50 minutes playing time of emotional Black Metal. Cold, gloomy and melodic with some faster parts and subtle hints of post-rock thrown in on occasion.
The dynamic duo release an album of covers that highlights not only their wide influences and tastes in music, but their fan-base as well. Included are:
‘Only Shallow’ (My Bloody Valentine)
‘Pea’ (Codeine)
‘No Cure for the Lonely’ (Swans)
‘Dead Skin Mask’ (Slayer)
‘The Sun Always Shines on TV’ (A-Ha)
‘Needle in the Hay’ (Elliott Smith)
‘Long Dark Twenties’ (Kids in the Hall)
‘Faith’ (The Cure)
A monumental slab of dirge-like, ethereal metal that's the perfect soundtrack to your deepest fears.
Desire in Uneasiness might be of slightly less epic proportions than in its immediate precursor Radiance of Shadows, but follows down a similar stylistic path. Through years of interacting, the band has worked out how to create enough tension for their drones and riffs to do without vocals and how to build unique tension by combining deep doom pieces with more subdued and psychoactive tracks.
A manifestation of thoughts about the futility of dreams and the meaninglessness of human life.
"La Fascination du Pire" is mid-tempo, creepy and obscure Black Metal in the Nordic tradition. Features a member of Nehemah.
Straight forward, pure Black Metal from Italy with very heavy Norwegian influence.
NEBELWERFER are to crush mankind and its dogmas with their missiles in the form of fast, brutal and hellishly convincing songs. No mush, schmaltz and digressions. This is a challenge! This is war! For fans and admirers of legacy of MARDUK, ANTAEUS, INFERNAL WAR.
Recorded at Sacred Sound Recording Studio, Azimuths to the Otherworld is an awe inspiring journey into the realms of classical guitar and organic metal. With lyrical and spiritual guidance drawn from the mystical Adena and Hopewell people, their influence from beyond the stars has lifted Nechochwen to new and challenging musical hunting grounds. Azimuths takes bold musical cross pollination ala black and doom metal and fuses it with a very emotive and pure classical instrumentation with an "earthy" Native American folk leaning. The sounds are original, thoughtful, and instrumental in once again expanding the extreme metal world and how we all listen and interact with it. Nechochwen is passion, creativity and a powerful spiritual awakening that the listener can feel pouring out of the compositions of this art.
Excellent release of epic neo-folk with classical influences.
Pure Satanic fury from Belarus. Very traditional and harsh.
Harsh, ultra-raw one-man Black Metal from California. Contains all Necro Cult material to date, including over an hour of savage material from every demo and split released. Pro CDr limited to 100 hand-numbered copies.
$7 US/Canada $10 World
Satanic Black Metal from the UK.
$7 US/Canada $10 World
The lords of gore return!! Their latest release on a picture LP!!
$13 US/Canada $20 World
A harsh dose of raw, thrashing Black Metal that harkens back to the old days. "In the Realm of Flesh" received a well-deserved 8/10 in Terrorizer magazine.
From the surreal, nightmare-evoking textures that speak to the most ancient and basic part of our beings – that which understands without attaching judgment – to the unabashedly raw renditions of suffering brought on by the purposefully unintelligible, wretched vocals and the seething guitar-work, the listener may draw parallels but will surely find no equal to what is found here. All assumptions you might make as to the musical influences that may or may not have imprinted themselves upon this record may just as well be wrong. So simply listen and let the music wash over you.
Uncovering a Dark Jewel of Black/Death Metal History. Features prominent members of the US Underground who wish to keep their identities concealed. Rituals of cold brutality & inhuman terror achievement. Total Death and Destruction to the worthless plague called the human race is what Nekroholocaust desire.
Nethervoid have a blazing sound similar to Scandinavia's best, with elements that show, even at this early stage, that they have a few cool ideas of their own. Definitely worth checking out.
$8 US/Canada $11 World
Blackened thrashing metal of death!!! Long awaited mini album is finally available. This was originally supposed to be released as a split with Bloodhammer.
The debut album from this Swedish Doom trio is sure to appeal to fans of My Dying Bride, Candlemass, Katatonia, early Paradise Lost, and early Bethlehem. Nex features within its ranks, Tore Stjerna (Necromorbus Studio, Chaos Omen, Ofermod, Funeral Mist, Watain, etc), Perra Karlsson (Nominon, In Aeternum), and Par Gustavsson (Bergraven).
Torturous Funeral Doom. Invoking agony & hate and the pleasure in reflecting them towards the humanity - the lethal injection of planet earth - the two lengthy tracks manage to be cruel and mesmerizing and yet still somewhat beautiful in their crudeness. A giant leap after their demos towards the torch bearers of Finland's Funeral Doom genre. Imagine a mix of eerie funeral doom with the ugly crushing sludge attitude and you're somewhere close to the sound of this release.
Occult US Black Metal for fans of Profanatica and Beherit.
Now defunct, this release includes obscure and unreleased material as well as the infamous Bezerker tracks (Pre-Nirnaeth Arnoediad) re-recorded by Nirnaeth Arnoediad in 2001. Features members of Beyond The Ninth Wave, Operation Winter Mist and Unleash Hell. Strictly limited to 500 units.
Completely lush and expansive and a very immense work as well, filling the entirety of the CD, so no Njiqahdda fanatic will be disappointed with this work. The album features everything from blazing fast black metal to psychedelic doom shoegaze memerism.
A bizarre and captivating entity, Illinois enigma Njiqahdda specializes in progressive, eclectic Black Metal, which incorporates elements of psychedelia, ambient, folk, doom and shoegaze.
Noctuary - When Fires
Breed Blood
Featuring a thick sound and pulling influences from 80's thrash and
early 90's Black Metal, this was one of the more over-looked and underrated
USBM releases of the past several years.
Blackened Thrash featuring a member of Gehenna and a W.A.S.P. cover!
Emanating from Ukraine NM have become legends in their ancient lands and are now ready to sweep the rest of us. In seven opuses they feature beauty in its darkest and most extreme form. In what can be described as lunar Black Metal they take you on a majestic journey that combines devastating metal with folklore and classical elements. The End Records version.
The Baphomet Records Coven is proud to announce one of the year's most anticipated black metal releases is finally unleashed. Don't miss out on this future classic of pure hate, ugliness and blasphemy!
The first album from these US Black Metal lords finally available on vinyl! Black Wax, printed inner sleeve, limited to 666 hand numbered copies!
$13 US/Canada $20 World
The fourth studio album from Sweden’s harbingers of TOTAL DEATH!
Old school death metal played with conviction and aggression. Recorded at Necromorbus Studio, a new dawn of destruction, damnation, and chaos lies ahead!
Re-issue of NOMINON's 1st album, which was originally released by Swedish label X-Treme Records back in 1999. Recorded at the infamous Sunlight Studio. Prepare to be crushed!!!
Excellent release of old-school Death Metal. None of the over-the-top technicality, this is pure bludgeoning Death Metal!
Combines elements of brutality with old school Swedish Death Metal!
Solid release of Canadian Black Metal.
The German cult gives us material that they released under the names Nordlys, Pest & Die Pest. There is also an unreleased track from the Pest ep session and a live song from the legendary gig back in 1997 with Lunar Aurora, Nagelfar and Mightiest.
Third album of high-quality pagan Black Metal from these Germans.
Militant Black Metal from the northern part of Norway. The arctic beast of agression, anger and war. Hateful as the hungry wolves in winter, dark as the polar night over the frozen fjords, keeping high the banner of Norwegian Black Metal, of the same blood with GORGOROTH's first 4 albums and IMMORTAL's "Damned in Black" and "Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism".
Black Metal Warmachine from North Norway in the vein of GORGOROTH.
Progressive and technical Black Metal from Greece.
Nortt's basic sound is made up of morose background synths and piano, barely human snarls, ponderous drumming, despondent fuzzed-out guitars and other string laments -- all tied in chains almost too heavy to bare. The last funeral before your own has just taken place, and half-imagined church bells echo in your mind as a reminder that your miserable journey is coming to an end.
Pure, depressive, Blackened Funeral Doom. Crushing and abyssmal.
Nortt's Black Metal / Funeral Doom hybrid has never sounded darker, deeper, or more chilling. This is the Danish entity's third album, released by the Avantgarde label.
'Into Night's Requiem Infernal' is dark, aggressive, and melodic. Fans new and old will not be disappointed.
NOX INFERI is the new project of Wraith, mastermind of Australian band NAZXUL, helped in this dark affair by Lurker (TOIL, ex-VROLOK) on drums and NH (CORPUS CHRISTII) on vocals. Ghoulish, apocalyptic and experimental Black Metal of the highest level.
9 studio tracks and 9 live tracks from these French black/punk metal weirdos.
Like blood soaked entrails ripped from the disemboweled body of christ, NunSlaughter rape the heavens with their much awaited third studio album! Hex is a pyre of 80's Devil Metal Death featuring ten new satanic commandments plus the devil's seven classic cuts on the Face of Evil demo finally re-recorded in a proper studio!
Special split CD release between the enigmatic, warp-astral Nychts from Switzerland and the well known depressive-suicide Black Metal Wedard from Germany. New songs from both bands composed for this release exclusively!