Comes with a compilation cd featuring bands included in the issue!! Included in this issue are: Acrimonious, Adorior, Archgoat, Asunder, Blacklodge, Caina, Coffins, Cult of Daath, Dapnom, Harvey Milk, Moss, Necromorbus, Portal and Wold.
$9 US/Canada $13 World
The new issue has arrived! 96 pages! In this issue and on the cd: Akitsa, Aluk Todolo, Avsky, Dead Raven Choir, Dialing In, Gnaw Their Tongues, Immolation, IXXI, Lugubrum, Necros Christos, Necorvation, Throneum, Vargr.
$10 US/Canada $14 World
Second album from this really unique dark ambient project. New tracks with new sound/noise elements! Grim, base and harsh influenced of nihilism.
Appreciators of cold atmospheric electronics will be right at home with this release as will be anyone with an active imagination who will just sit back, relax and let himself be carried away by the ambiances contained within.
"Dark ambient this truly is with not nary a production detail or value compromised." (Aural Pressure)
This album consists of two cds, "Other side of light" and "Realms of rust, domains of decay", containing 8 sessions recorded between 2005-2006; "Nursing station", "Alchemillan influence", "Otherside scenery 01-02", "Archaia, wolfcut", "Realms of rust", "Heaven´s night" (previously released on 3"CD-R) and "Subterranean scenery 01".
From the label: A sprawling concept album bleeding misogyny, sadomasochism, anger, pain and strife. 10 tales of depravity that will leave the listener with a deep sense of unease...agonizing listening for depraved minds.
Between the two harsher releases, October Falls releases an all acoustic MCD, Sarastus, which continues the same path that Tuoni and Marras started few years ago. Those not familiar with the earlier acoustic works can expect something in the vein of old Ulver, Empyrium etc.
Epic Finnish Acoustic/Folk Metal! A dynamic volume of work infused with the scope of nature, celebrating Life and death, blending folk sensibilities with harsh dissonance. Rich and beautiful; classical and harmonic; yet decayed and awash with inconsolable despair. Mandatory for those into acoustic ULVER, DISSECTION or classic-OPETH!
Sexually fuelled anti-Christian Black Metal blasphemy!!
Obscure Black Metal from Holland. Black Metal with that old Scandinavian feeling to it. Piercing vocal performance and dedication to the Black flame that once more is burning strong. Öde is not a project that is taking its first step into the Black Metal realm, this project has been lurking deep underground for a long time and this debut full-length will give you a taste of what the Dutch Black Metal underground has to offer to this date.
Features completely new artwork and unleashes the fury of pure satanic Black Metal.
Raw & primitive Black Metal yet displaying an advance in their song writing & overall approach to Black Metal. Ildjarn influenced.
A definite evolution from the older material. Good production with a slightly more aggressive approach.
Russia’s leading black metal veterans return with their highly anticipated 4th album. Cold, cult black metal in the Nordic tradition, this is the sound of freezing winds, glacial isolation and permanent darkness. Old Wainds embody the harsh Arctic Circle hinterland that conceived them. Packaged with a lavish 20-page booklet!
Frost Bitten Black Metal From The Arctic Circle! Extremely well written Satanic Black Art that paints a desolate soundscape created by the Northern Wind of malice, churches in ruins, frozen rivers where the moon shadows gleam eternally, morbid dwarf trees amongst wastelands of black moss, and pale stars that echo the snowfall... Where the air is drunk with the blood of the ancient battles ...Where the Snows are never gone...
...This is the Cold Northern Soil of Old Wainds.
The newest creature from the veterans of Unholy Nordic Metal. Pure supremacy and dedication to traditions.
After Centuries of Silence sounds like it was recorded on a four track in 1991. But it requires nothing more to convey the wealth of emotional impact. It's completely dead and evil, yet at the same time blissful and mesmerizing. Not a single note on this album removed me from its horrific embrace, and needless to say it belongs in the upper crust of black metal released this year, along with the latest offerings from Oranssi Pazuzu and Arckanum. Fucking staggering.
Review excerpt from: http://autothrall.blogspot.com/2009/08/onirik-after-centuries-of-silence-2009.html
This full length album of brutal Mexican death also contains the "From Dark Immortals" EP.
Original Sin -
Misanthropic
Quality recording of raw, misanthropic Black Metal worthy of
complimenting any serious collection with the right dosage of pernicious
Black Metal.
Hell-bound Swedish Black Metal!
Very promising mysterious neo-folk/atmospheric music from Denmark! Album is full of classic instruments, guitars, keys, male and female vocals in native language with intelligent lyrics. Each song is different and characteristic by own internal dynamics. Othala is inspired by classic Of the Wand and the Moon and Solefald. Othala represents home, culture, tradition, ancestry and all that which has made us what we are...Odinn... This edition pressing in 1000 copies.
Long awaited 2nd full Album of Mexican Raw Grind Gore!! Featuring 11 songs including Napalm Death and Necrony covers!
Raw, symphonic Pagan/Viking Metal reminiscent of early Covenant, Summoning and Limbonic Art. New on Nordsturm Prods (Ger).
French Pagan Black Metal that displays a strong sense of melodic melancholy.
Epic, ambient, droning Black Metal, with a clearly nationalistic stance and fervent performance. Pro CDr limited to 123 hand-numbered copies.
$7 US/Canada $10 World
Pagan Hammer returns with a new split featuring new endeavor Nox Eternus from North Carolina. Pagan Hammer crafts three excellent tracks of his classic style of epic, ambient Black Metal, while Nox Eternus plays a spacey variety of ambient black metal that can be compared to a (much) faster and more aggressive Ashes. Definitely not an item to be missed! Pro CDr limited to 150 hand-numbered copies.
The philosophy behind Pagan Heritage is low and mid-tempo grim Black Metal with a clear message about spreading the old Pagan ways and a fight against x-tian domination and influence on the European people and their descendents around the world.
Second album from this Russian folk/pagan metal band. Title translates to "Spark of Glory and Revival of Ancient Greatness."
Pagan Reign presents here is some thrashy, traditional metal with some Black Metal influence. This is pure Heavy Metal with some exquisite soaring folk melodies and some galloping, riotous metal riffage.
Features 4 tracks of vicious extreme Doom metal clocking in at almost 50 minutes! Extreme heaviness filled with crushing riffs, doomy soundscapes, wicked vocals and lots of negative emotions. Recommended for fans of Burning Witch, Khanate, High on Fire, Neurosis, etc.
Modern Belgian Black/Death Metal in the vein of Zyklon, newer Dissection, and the like.
Panopticon is intensely emotional and atmospheric Black Metal that transcends the genre with both boots deeply submerged in the grim aggression that keeps the underground flame burning.
An emotional journey through previously uncharted territory. Where Funeral Doom meets 70's prog and ethnic folk.
Not much needs to be said about this amazing band but, somehow, this is much darker and doom-laden than what they've released before with heavier riffs and more emphasis on the guitars.
Pandemia - Personal
Demon
Killer release of devastating Czech Death Metal.
The life-neglecting negativity...Paroxysmal Descent summon forth from the deepest vaults. A Virus of dark, suffocating black metal despair. Presenting the decaying world their
debut full length offering, to scar the world once more....
Antihuman Divinity is a manifest of destruction of a modern human. It's an effect of permanent and carved within us hatred towards everything created by god in his own image. Polish black metal! This Cd includes a great Coversong from Zyklon B. Warfare!!!
Pessimist manhandles brutal death metal, but adds a twist with minor blackened characteristics that gives its sound a lethal dose of venom and originality.
Pessimist - Slaughtering The Faithful
Pulverizing, hellish blackened death from the abyss.
Punk fueled Italian Necro Thrash in the Motorhead Vein
The long awaited debut of the Controversial French Band. Radikal Intolerant Black Metal only, Extreme Destruction & Hatred, all tracks in French for the most violent eradication of the weak. Death to the People. Contains the Einenherbes Gesang Demo 2001 as Bonus.
Blasting Satanic Polish Black Metal of the highest possible caliber. Spin "Black Metal Complete" in lieu of a suicide note.
Killer heavy metal darkness from this great new Swedish band. Very much in the vein of those classic Danish '80s metal bands--Mercyful Fate, Witch Cross, Evil--it's almost uncanny.
Moderately depressive orthodox Finnish Black Metal.
Progressive Death Metal with Black Metal influences, although in a combination not before heard in this form. The manner in which the riffs are combined - entirely unpredictable, the way the bass is played, the rawness, the constant change of atmospheres, a number of surprises, etc, are worth mentioning.
Limited to 1000 copies, Primigenium's "All Your Tears" is excruciating death metal filled with sickness and hatred.
"Ambient, minimalist, and surrealist Black Metal created largely through automatism. Derived from and aimed at the stars, particularly the constellation and alien entity known as Orion, and the first forays into the starchamber heart. The grand inception of Procer Veneficus.”
After releasing the stunning "A Summerhaze Array for August Nights" 2 cd boxed set, now comes this new effort from Procer Veneficus. Convoy (Pt. 2) takes off in a slightly different direction in terms of composition and form but make no mistake, this is Procer Veneficus' greatest and most absorbing / thought provoking work to date. Almost an hour of psychedelic Black Metal delivered like no other.
Much awaited full length studio album from one of the most influential and original godfathers of extreme Black Metal. Spilling holy fucking blood with 10 ruthlessly scouring Profanatica signature style hymns, Profanatitas De Domonatia is a continuation from where the black cult vanished in 1992. Profanatica vomit on your god and shit on your so-called Black Metal!!
Debut album of Polish Black Death.
Raw and technical black metal, with acoustic moments! Great atmospheres mixed with violent old school black metal!
From the ashes of the mighty DEPRAVITY (Finland), this band knows exactly how to keep the nineteen’s sound, with heavy and brutal riffs directly to your head. For fans of bands such as: UNLEASHED, BOLT THROWER, CARCASS, NASUM, NECRONY or DISMEMBER.
Swedish Black Metal.
Both projects feature members of ORNIAS.
Pyramido - Sand
Sand is the first full-length album of
Swedish maniacs, Pyramido, and it delivers five punishing tracks of raw Sludge
for almost 50 minutes. This old school slab of DOOM is primitive, dirty and
gruff! Get crushed.