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A true French oddity on the black metal scene, PN has been following a winding path since 2009, built on a foundation of dark, tortured black metal that meanders through the realms of circus music, jazz, musette, tango and classical music. With “Alignement Désastre”, the band’s eighth album, PN distils the very essence of what has shaped its identity over the years. Welcome to this world of terror and jazz, where satire has never been in doubt, where laughter has never been so dark. For better or for worse !
A true French oddity on the black metal scene, PN has been following a winding path since 2009, built on a foundation of dark, tortured black metal that meanders through the realms of circus music, jazz, musette, tango and classical music. With “Alignement Désastre”, the band’s eighth album, PN distils the very essence of what has shaped its identity over the years. Welcome to this world of terror and jazz, where satire has never been in doubt, where laughter has never been so dark. For better or for worse !
Die To This, the new LEVIATHAN album and the follow up to 2015’s epochal Scar Sighted LP will be released on Nov 27 and sees sole proprietor and mastermind Wrest once again indulge the listener through a holistic, tumultuous and agonizing audial excursion of peerless black metal psychosis. A junction of virulent tormented angular introspective black metal, dark ambient with a graze of classic goth/darkwave, Die To This will balance itself as one of LEVIATHAN’s most malicious and solemn albums yet
Die To This, the new LEVIATHAN album and the follow up to 2015’s epochal Scar Sighted LP will be released on Nov 27 and sees sole proprietor and mastermind Wrest once again indulge the listener through a holistic, tumultuous and agonizing audial excursion of peerless black metal psychosis. A junction of virulent tormented angular introspective black metal, dark ambient with a graze of classic goth/darkwave, Die To This will balance itself as one of LEVIATHAN’s most malicious and solemn albums yet
2026 repress, comes with "ink paint" vinyl effect (that's black with white random lines/cuts)
Gatefold sleeve with extensive huge book / insert, vinyl comes as picture disc ! Limited one off press of 300
Gatefold sleeve with extensive huge book / insert and new vinyl color effect in copper with black ice!
Gatefold Double Vinyl with Inlaycard including Lyrics and 1 bonustrack!
FIRTAN's new album, Helios, charts the brutal path to enlightenment. Not as an escape, but as a conquest. Named after the sun itself, the album explores what it means to become the strongest and clearest version of oneself in a world designed for distraction and decay.
Fusing the raw, atmospheric ferocity of black metal with the crushing weight of death metal, Helios mirrors the album's core theme of clarity forged through struggle.
Evocative acoustic and electric violin melodies weave through the compositions, creating tension and complexity with their melancholic and experimental tones. This enhances the band's intricate riffing and unexpected musical shifts. The incorporation of acoustic instruments, ritualistic chants and analogue synthesizers adds layers of depth and atmosphere.
With CALL, Urisk confront the intertwined loss of wilderness, Gaelic culture, and the mythical in Scotland and beyond. The album takes its title from a tension between two meanings: the Scottish Gaelic call (/kauL/), meaning “loss”, and the English “call”, a calling out as much as an invocation to remember and reclaim what’s been marginalised or erased.
Moving between atmospheric passages and bursts of aggressive black metal, the songs on CALL create deliberate spaces for grief and mourning that naturally follow calamity and loss. Yet, this is not an album resigned to despair. Beneath the voices of melancholy and wrath runs the red thread of hope in the possibility of return, recovery, and reconnection through ways of worshipping the wild.
Urzirkel's debut EP 'In Silbernen Sprachen', explores the rites and mysteries of an ancient cult devoted to the earth and the primordial forces hidden beneath it.
Each track reveals a different facet of the Urzirkel as it seeks communion with forces older than mankind itself.
Cathedral’s ninth studio album was originally released by Nuclear Blast in 2010 as a double disc set and produced by x3 Grammy award winner Warren Riker (Fugees, Down, M People, Destiny's Child, COC). It was perhaps their most ambitious effort to date. It covers a lot of musical territories that the band were known for, with each song having a different to vibe to the next.
The Guessing Game has been a somewhat overlooked album in the Cathedral repertoire and, whilst the band were happy with the production, they always considered the original mix to be a bit lack-lustre. So now, with the recording rights reverting to the band, they thought it a good time to revisit the masters and get the album sounding more in keeping with how they would have liked it to sound at the time.
With that in mind, the album has been completely remixed from the original masters by long-time collaborator Jaime Gomez Arellano. Now, with a more cohesive, stripped down, raw and powerful sound, it includes alternate takes and extended versions of songs, now stretching over five sides of vinyl, enabling the tracks to breathe like never before. This new mix gives The Guessing Game a revitalised energy, which almost makes it sound like a new album.
Cathedral’s ninth studio album was originally released by Nuclear Blast in 2010 as a double disc set and produced by x3 Grammy award winner Warren Riker (Fugees, Down, M People, Destiny's Child, COC). It was perhaps their most ambitious effort to date. It covers a lot of musical territories that the band were known for, with each song having a different to vibe to the next.
The Guessing Game has been a somewhat overlooked album in the Cathedral repertoire and, whilst the band were happy with the production, they always considered the original mix to be a bit lack-lustre. So now, with the recording rights reverting to the band, they thought it a good time to revisit the masters and get the album sounding more in keeping with how they would have liked it to sound at the time.
With that in mind, the album has been completely remixed from the original masters by long-time collaborator Jaime Gomez Arellano. Now, with a more cohesive, stripped down, raw and powerful sound, it includes alternate takes and extended versions of songs, now stretching over five sides of vinyl, enabling the tracks to breathe like never before. This new mix gives The Guessing Game a revitalised energy, which almost makes it sound like a new album.
True Norwegian Outlaw Country.
DEATHBARREL’s first full-length in 14 years.
"Life Resignation Notice", deals in dark outlaw country from the cold and ruthless edges of Norway. A soundtrack for empty roads, bad decisions, broken hearts and the ghosts that refuse to stay buried. Driving guitars, whiskey-soaked melodies and stories dragged straight from the shadows - where Southern Gothic meets the bleakness of the North. No pretty lies. No redemption promised. Just True Norwegian Outlaw Country.
"Life Resignation Notice" is an album so steeped in darkness that it's bound to cross over and thrive with any genre found down below. See DEATHBARREL take the stage and set a new world order.
Re-Release with one bonus track "Golden Dust - Acoustic Version"
“The Circle” deals with the cycle of life, death and rebirth. Interweaving crushing heaviness and atmospheric dreaminess, the album portrays a deeply emotional journey – a life dedicated to the sun and to freedom.
Gatefold LP with inlaycard and black flood inside
Servant are set to release their fourth studio album, Lux Ex Inferis, in October via AOP Records. Expanding on their established style, the new record merges epic structures and haunting melodies, creating a multi-layered sonic landscape where passion meets grandeur.
Balancing tradition and progression, Servant deliver a sound that feels both familiar and forward-thinking—uncompromising, powerful, and darkly captivating.
Black vinyl, simple sleeve with insert 30x30 cm.
DUIR’s upcoming album, CATARSI (2026, AOP), represents their most ambitious work yet. Set during the First World War, it follows a young soldier caught between pride, despair, and oblivion. Through atmospheric black metal intertwined with evocative folk elements, Catarsi guides listeners on a cathartic journey where history becomes emotion and memory turns into sound.
Following the success of Blasphemy’s “Blood Upon the Altar” demo, which was released in 1989 and ultimately sold more than 2,000 copies, Richard C. of Wild Rags contacted the band, offering them a contract for their debut album. In 1990, the Desecraters entered Fiasco Bros. studio to record “Fallen Angel of Doom” on a meager $2,000 budget. The lineup consisted of founding members Nocturnal Grave Desecrater and Black Winds on bass and vocals, 3 Black Hearts of Damnation and Impurity on drums, and guitarist Caller of the Storms. A second guitarist, Traditional Sodomizer of the Goddess of Perversity, also known for his work in Witches Hammer, was added to the lineup prior to the recording, after the band’s previous guitarist who following his adverse reaction to the theft and desecration of a gravestone in Ross Bay cemetery. Later that same year, the album was released—on red vinyl in North America and black vinyl in Europe—and immediately set a new standard of extremity in Black Metal. At the time, Blasphemy had few contemporaries; virtually no one had a style that was so immediate and forceful. Blasphemy drew upon the frenzied assault of death and speed metal, as well as early grindcore acts like Blood and Genocide, but augmented it with the unbridled evil of Sarcofago, Sodom, and Bathory, yielding a new virulent strain of Black Metal. The austere appearance of the album and the music on it, was much like the appearance of the band members depicted on the back cover: menacing, threatening, and violent. In the nearly three decades that have passed since its initial release, it remains unsurpassed.
The centrality of this album to the scene that evolved in its shadow cannot be overstated. As such, NWN! and Ross Bay Cult have endeavored to reissue it periodically, ensuring that it remains accessible. After having previously pressed the album in various color and picture disc variations, the labels sought to present this new edition consistent with the original pressing. Like the original version, it was manufactured in the U.S. on red and black vinyl, and the jacket and insert are similar to the first edition, with the notable exception that the lyrics to the songs “Hording of Evil Vengeance,” “Darkness Prevails,” and “The Desolate Ones,” originally omitted from the first pressing, have been included for this edition.
With “Aion’s Light”, Blood and Sun’s third full-length album, Luke Tromiczak brings his vision of American neofolk back to its rawest foundations while pushing further into the borderlands between song, spell, and memory.
The album was recorded entirely on the same Tascam 414 four-track cassette portastudio used for Blood and Sun’s earliest demo. Songs were written and tracked in the order they appear, effects were committed to tape, and each bounced-down instrument narrowed the path ahead. Every decision carried weight; raw instinct became part of the final form.
Musically, “Aion’s Light” stands somewhere between 70s folk songcraft, underground black metal spirit, and the eerie atmospheres of B-movie horror soundtracks. Echoes of Scott Walker, Of the Wand and the Moon, Woven Hand, Swans, Dave Bixby, Exuma, Leonard Cohen, and Storm can be felt throughout. Guitar chords are hammered into place as a foundation for bass, keyboards, percussion, and voice; sparse arrangements gather weight through repetition, atmosphere, and the grain of the recording itself.
Die To This, the new LEVIATHAN album and the follow up to 2015’s epochal Scar Sighted LP will be released on Nov 27 and sees sole proprietor and mastermind Wrest once again indulge the listener through a holistic, tumultuous and agonizing audial excursion of peerless black metal psychosis. A junction of virulent tormented angular introspective black metal, dark ambient with a graze of classic goth/darkwave, Die To This will balance itself as one of LEVIATHAN’s most malicious and solemn albums yet
Die To This, the new LEVIATHAN album and the follow up to 2015’s epochal Scar Sighted LP will be released on Nov 27 and sees sole proprietor and mastermind Wrest once again indulge the listener through a holistic, tumultuous and agonizing audial excursion of peerless black metal psychosis. A junction of virulent tormented angular introspective black metal, dark ambient with a graze of classic goth/darkwave, Die To This will balance itself as one of LEVIATHAN’s most malicious and solemn albums yet
For over 25 years now, Sargeist - led by erstwhile HORNA guitarist / songwriter Shatraug, who's arguably the most prolific metal musician of that same period - have been at the forefront of the ever-fertile Finnish black metal scene. In fact, alongside HORNA, one could say that SARGEIST are the most influential band of that scene, which has gone on to influence countless other worldwide scenes in this millennium.
As has been the way since 2018's significant Unbound full-length, which saw the arrival of erstwhile Nightbringer / Demoncy guitarist VJS among others, Flame Within Flame also sees the arrival of more new members: longtime HORNA frontman Spellgoth on bass and prolific drummer Nur-i-siyah, who's played with Nawaharjan and Decapitated Christ among others. And while that "classic" SARGEIST lineup that included longstanding co-conspirators Torog and Horns (vocals and drums, respectively) certainly set an enviably high standard, Shatraug and crew continue undaunted, arguably more invigorated than ever. Indeed, Flame Within Flame is presciently titled, for the band's spirit is unextinguishable and unquenchable, seemingly infinite in inspiration whilst remaining characteristically - and DEADLY - focused. From the album's opening seconds, this is classic, burning-with-desperation SARGEIST, but immerse thyself in its icily shimmering waters ever so deeper and one will find that there's an almost-melancholic touch to Shatraug & VJS's riff-sorcery. What results is perhaps the band's most atmospheric record to date - credit, too, to the spacious-yet-immediate production - but one still pulsing with ragged, burning-black emotion: truly, the enduring hallmark of SARGEIST's eternal aesthetic. Of especial note is Shatraug resuming vocals, which he hasn't done since the band's early demo days. Return, once again, to misery and comfort with Flame Within Flame!
2026 repress, comes with "ink paint" vinyl effect (that's black with white random lines/cuts)
Gatefold sleeve with extensive huge book / insert, vinyl comes as picture disc ! Limited one off press of 300
Gatefold sleeve with extensive huge book / insert and new vinyl color effect in copper with black ice!
Limited edition of the entire discography of Mistress Of The Dead. that contain all the 15 CDs (4 albums - just for this boxing) + booklet of 35-40 pages and a coffin-shaped box ( wooden box made of birch )
Please see complete list of albums here at this link
11 full-length albums + bonus CD recorded specially for this edition. New artwork. Complete and strictly limited edition of 300 copies of the discography in the Book of Elffor.
Comes in VG++++++++
Innersleeve has edges cut, outersleeve is VG+ (one very small corner bent), vinyl is NM
Booklet Mint
Disc: basically a near mint but with a few small light spots
Check out this version details here
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Media Condition: Near Mint
Sleeve Condition: VG+
2 × CD, Mini-Album, Reissue, Limited Edition
Comes as a thick glossy digibook with a booklet.
This collectors edition includes the original and rerecorded tracks of "The Pest Called Humanity".
CD1 originally recorded in 1997.
CD2 recorded during the years 2001-2007
Media Condition: Mint
Sleeve Condition: Near Mint
Tracks 1 to 5 recorded under the 11th fullmoon of 1994.
Track 6 recorded February of 1996.
Track 7 recorded in the winter of 1995.
The "The Rebellion" part of 7th track contains three chapters:
Part I: ...Full Moon
Part II: Angel's Tears
Part III: Lamentation
3rd edition with alternate cover. Several spelling mistakes/differences (f.e. of the tracktitles) on rear cover/inlay.
(NOTA BENE, IL TESCHIO NELLA FOTO E' DECORATIVO E NON FA PARTE DEL BOX)
"The Northern Silence Years" Box-Set compiles the three albums the band released under Northern Silence Productions (which were also licensed to Nuclear Blast USA).
It is limited to 100 copies and includes:
- "Moonlover" DigiCD
- "Starmourner" DigiCD
- "Self Loather" DigiCD
- flag (100cm x 55cm with the "Reaper" artwork)
- woven logo patch
- logo metal pin
- sticker with the "Reaper" artwork
- handnumbered certificate
Raging,repetitve yet diverse black/death metal
with a discreet yet ever present droning vibe.
Hypnotic and hysterical,channeled through the virtues
of a sharp,
strict but eventually warm sound production,
Υπνωσίνοσις provides a sonic guidance to the subsconscious and beyond!
8 panels digipack
Exactly 8 years after June 2010's 'The Grave of Civilization' Void of Silence are back with a brand new album.
Although still based on the classic Conforti/Zara line-up core, the new album features again a new lead vocalist (Luca Soi, of Arcana Coelestia and Visthia past).
4 panels digipack with booklet!
you can preorder it now but this is not a limited edition or anything.
will be in stock on the 2nd week of February
"This what I call imagination and talent employed to produce true art. I have chills from that song and it is followed up “Curse”, a hymn filled with almost nothing but black voices, gasps, growls, hissing, vomit-like emanations, ghost-like screams of anguish – this album is a journey I assure you. I am mentally exhausted. A brilliant release that takes many elements you have heard, many you have not and combines them in a unique way that makes this record an absolute must own."
These songs revolve around the transformation from man to The Übermensch (German for "Overman, Overhuman, Superman, Superhuman), through the purification of the fire and the metaphor of the warrior, mainly taking inspiration from parts of Vijnanabhairava as well as personal experiences of meditation.
Fire is the main element manifested by Shiva, seen as a purifying factor and dissolving, regenerating and annihilating.
In this case also seen as the awakening of a burning and dissolving energy, which brings chaos and destroys the boundaries of mortality to reach immortality.
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Sebastian Montesi is a prolific artist, probably best known for his endeavors in Mitochondrion and for being one of the founding members of Auroch.
With Saturn’s Cross, the Canadian took a very different path, delving into cold wave territories, which little have to share with the bands he is usually associated to. Yet, when we listened to what Sebastian crafted, we had no doubt, and we gladly welcomed this new project to our roster. With neither hope nor fear, Saturn’s Cross unveils Cheat Death. Now operating as a two piece, with 1908 entering the fold on bass and
vocals, Cheat Death disregards genre with wild abandon in favour of something that is at times overwhelmingly abrasive and at others intoxicating.
This is a willing exploration of the endless labyrinth and a lamp of pitch black glass intended to serve as a beacon in the lightless depths of the human spirit. This is a headlong dive into the soul's psychic darkness, with nothing to break the fall. This ushers in a new era Saturn's Cross.
Digipack limited to 500 Copies
Orchestral Fantasy Music / Epic Dungeon Synth
“Show My Mercy” is an EP about the remorse that humans will feel, when they are stuck in the swirl
of karma made by themselves. Blinded by fury, greed, sorrow, heading for their destruction step by step.
The digipak comes as four-sided panel with booklet-sleeve and eight-sided booklet.
Winter lake (blue, crystal and black splatter) 12" double vinyl (33 rpm) in gatefold.
Limited to 300 copies worldwide!
THY CATAFALQUE is the solo-helmed Hungarian avant-garde metal project of Tamás Kátai, running since 1998 and now a two-time Fonogram (Hungarian Grammy) winner. What began as a studio-only outlet has grown, over the past few years, into a full international touring act with festival slots across Europe and Latin America.
'XIII: Sárga erdo' is THY CATAFALQUE's thirteenth album, and unlike its predecessors it carries no single narrative thread: the twelve tracks move instead through what plays like a wandering across old ground, touching on loss, distance, memory and disappearance without ever settling on one story. The record marks a real shift in how it's built: this is the first time THY CATAFALQUE has used a live drummer rather than programmed rhythm, and while the cast is enormous - thirty-four musicians plus a twenty-voice male choir - the folk and classical textures that once flooded every corner of a song (piano, strings, brass, reed, sitar, kamancheh, zither) are used here with real discipline, brought in only when a track calls for them. The result sits closer to the bone than the maximalism of the last record, heavier in restraint than in volume, and it still finds room for a fictitious folk song built for a vanished people on the Volga, an incineration metaphor turned into the album's heaviest cut, and an opener that reads like a farewell letter.
Gábor Vári returns behind the desk for a second record running, keeping the production language consistent even as the arrangements pull back.
After three years and Ten Thousand Hells… SPIRIT POSSESSION unleash their third Full Length album Cathedral Speech to be released on Oct 2.
Seven attacking labyrinths of far venturing Black Heavy Metal, with all spires pointed down.
Where 2023’s Of the Sign… held a knifelike gaze into more erratic, adventurous hymns, Cathedral Speech sees SPIRIT POSSESSION awaken their most piercing, deranged, and narratively epic form yet. Spiraling guitar storms and explosive drum batterings channel first wave Black/Death assaults in the same breath as expansive ‘70s composition.
With Four steps into madness followed by a side long suite - These are vicious electric chants as towering as they are blasphemous.
Featuring S. Peacock (Black Curse / Ulthar / Mastery) on Strings and Vocals, and A. Spungin (Ormus) on Drums and Handmade Synthesizers.Recorded in the depths of the S•P Dungeon / and studio mixed at The New Menegroth, The Thousand Caves. Artwork by Luciana Lupe Vasconselos.
Full coloured cover with white inner jacket + Insert Lyric Sheet. Limited to 100 copies on 12" Vinyl.
Dystopia returns with their 5th studio album entitled: «De Verboden Diepte II: De Weg van de Meeste Weerstand», which is the direct successor for their previous album “De Verboden Diepte I” which was released 2 years ago.
Once again the band explores their sound with much diversity and dwells even deeper into the atmospheric black metal sound combined with post metal riffs, experimenting wider with their orchestra and trumpets yet holding close to the original essence of old school black metal.
“De Verboden Diepte II” delivers only 2 songs, yet what a journey these 2 lengthy tracks present. The album goes from full fury with blast beats and shrieking vocals to calm dreamy post moments before it takes you into a medieval landscape of sounds. The guitars deliver a lot of variety from chord riffing to melodic parts to even a few outstanding solos and in combination with the beautiful trumpets, it creates the right atmosphere which the bass notes underlay perfectly. The drums are tight, offering a wide range of different tempos and structures which pushes the album to higher level. Last, but certainly above all not least! The vocals are tremendous!!! From screaming to clean shrieks, to mournful singing, an absolute pleasure to the ears while listening your way through this record.
It’s not often that a band can surpass a record that was already as perfect as it stands, but this doesn’t count for Dystopia! De Verboden Diepte II is of definitely of equal value as its predecessor if not even stronger! Once again these Dutchies delivered a solid, NO, a masterpiece of an album that every fan of Old School Black Metal, Atmospheric Black Metal and even Post or Pagan Black Metal can enjoy to the fullest from start til end!
Originally released in 1997, Mellom Skogkledde Aaser stands as one of the most important early works of Norwegian pagan black metal.
Combining raw black metal intensity with evocative folk-inspired passages, Kampfar forged a unique sound deeply rooted in Nordic heritage, mythology, and nature.
Widely regarded as a classic of the genre, the album remains a defining statement of the band's artistic vision.
This new reissue marks the first return of the record since the previous pressing released fifteen years ago, making it available once again to collectors and dedicated followers.
A timeless and essential release, Mellom Skogkledde Aaser continues to exemplify the enduring spirit of the Norwegian underground.
Cathedral’s ninth studio album was originally released by Nuclear Blast in 2010 as a double disc set and produced by x3 Grammy award winner Warren Riker (Fugees, Down, M People, Destiny's Child, COC). It was perhaps their most ambitious effort to date. It covers a lot of musical territories that the band were known for, with each song having a different to vibe to the next.
The Guessing Game has been a somewhat overlooked album in the Cathedral repertoire and, whilst the band were happy with the production, they always considered the original mix to be a bit lack-lustre. So now, with the recording rights reverting to the band, they thought it a good time to revisit the masters and get the album sounding more in keeping with how they would have liked it to sound at the time.
With that in mind, the album has been completely remixed from the original masters by long-time collaborator Jaime Gomez Arellano. Now, with a more cohesive, stripped down, raw and powerful sound, it includes alternate takes and extended versions of songs, now stretching over five sides of vinyl, enabling the tracks to breathe like never before. This new mix gives The Guessing Game a revitalised energy, which almost makes it sound like a new album.
“A Thirst for Summer Rain” is the eighth full-length album of Lustre – the Swedish apotheosis of ambient black metal.
Austin Lunn’s journey carried Panopticon from the urban density of Louisville to the remote northern reaches of Minnesota. It is here, surrounded by a landscape both inspiring and endangered, that “Det hjemsøkte hjertet” took shape. The album follows an elder hermit in the final week of his life, interweaving childhood memories with a lament for an ecosystem transformed by modern encroachment.
Dense, atmospheric, and unmistakably cinematic, “Det hjemsøkte hjertet” (‘The Haunted Heart’) shifts from the icy aggression of earlier works into something richer and more saturated – a palette of purples and burning oranges fading into dusk. The folk instrumentation once associated with Panopticon has largely receded, giving way to tones reminiscent of Neil Young & Crazy Horse.
The metal foundation remains, but the record’s strength lies in composition rather than speed: layered arrangements, long-form dynamics, and a strong narrative undercurrent. A full orchestral presence runs throughout, with Charlie Anderson’s string performances adding both gravity and movement. Each song features a different guest vocalist – Aaron Charles (Falls Of Rauros, Rhun), Jan Evan Åsli (Vemod), and Jan 'Winterherz' Van Berlekom (Waldgeflüster) among them – introducing distinct colours without compromising cohesion.
Standard CD edition
With icy melodies, haunted screams and an atmosphere as thick as the winter snows, LUSTRE returns. "The Ashes of Light" continues Nachtzeit's legacy with majestic splendour; its enthralling atmospheric black metal searching for lost secrets in the woods, among the stars.
Otherworldly keyboards and epic, long melody lines stretching across galaxies soothe the soul with their mysterious echoes of ancient truths. The dreamlike ambience is hypnotic and mesmerizing. Escape your daily woes and the modern noise by stepping into the grand, ethereal halls of LUSTRE.
Ten years ago, Panopticon released Autumn Eternal – a record that captured the fleeting fire of the season and fixed it in sound. Amber-hued and windswept, it was both a lament for change and a hymn of hope for the road ahead.
The album marked the closing chapter of the trilogy begun with Kentucky (2012) and carried forward with Roads to the North (2014). Here, Austin Lunn wove black metal with threads of Americana, folk, and postrock into an immersive journey steeped in sadness, beauty, and transcendence. From the sweeping melancholy of 'A Superior Lament' to the rustic violin of Johan Becker and the somber cello of Nostarion, Autumn Eternal is a meditation on loss, memory, and the passage of time.
A decade later, Autumn Eternal still glows with the same autumnal fire – a testament to its place as one of the most honest and affecting metal albums of its time.
A forgotten tale, long buried beneath the snows of time, is about to be retold. “Midvintersagor” (‘Midwinter Sagas’) is the first music ever composed by Örnatorpet, a landmark in both personal and artistic discovery. Originally self-released in a small cassette run, this unaltered reissue allows listeners to experience the album exactly as it was conceived – pure, unrefined, and brimming with the wonder of creation.
At its core, “Midvintersagor” is a soundtrack to an unwritten legend. Each track weaves a narrative steeped in medieval fantasy, channelling the essence of forgotten folklore and the grandeur of winter’s stillness. Inspired by the interludes and atmospheric passages of 90s black metal, Örnatorpet sought to craft an instrumental world as evocative as the landscapes of his native Sweden.
Since its inception in 2018, Örnatorpet has become one of the foremost torchbearers of dungeon synth. With no formal musical training, he followed only instinct and inspiration, carving out a path that has since led him to the forefront of the genre. “Midvintersagor” is where that journey began – an unpolished gem gleaming with the spirit of discovery, now unearthed for a new audience to behold.
A forgotten tale, long buried beneath the snows of time, is about to be retold. “Midvintersagor” (‘Midwinter Sagas’) is the first music ever composed by Örnatorpet, a landmark in both personal and artistic discovery. Originally self-released in a small cassette run, this unaltered reissue allows listeners to experience the album exactly as it was conceived – pure, unrefined, and brimming with the wonder of creation.
At its core, “Midvintersagor” is a soundtrack to an unwritten legend. Each track weaves a narrative steeped in medieval fantasy, channelling the essence of forgotten folklore and the grandeur of winter’s stillness. Inspired by the interludes and atmospheric passages of 90s black metal, Örnatorpet sought to craft an instrumental world as evocative as the landscapes of his native Sweden.
Since its inception in 2018, Örnatorpet has become one of the foremost torchbearers of dungeon synth. With no formal musical training, he followed only instinct and inspiration, carving out a path that has since led him to the forefront of the genre. “Midvintersagor” is where that journey began – an unpolished gem gleaming with the spirit of discovery, now unearthed for a new audience to behold.
“Evigt främmande, evigt fjärran” is the seventh album of Sweden’s leading dungeon synth project, Örnatorpet. Modern music without the trappings of modernity; nostalgia and longing channelling the spirit both of timeless classics like Fata Morgana, Mortiis, and Wongraven and recent genre greats such as Erang, Old Sorcery, and Vindkaldr.
For those who believe the genre of dark dungeon music to be narrow, Örnatorpet stands as a living, breathing rebuttal. Each release has its own thematic foundation upon which the compositions rest. “Bergtagen” (2018) captures the sense of rustling leaves in autumnal woods. “Hymner från Snökulla” (2019) crackles with soul-piercing frost drawn straight from the heart of winter.
For over 25 years now, Sargeist - led by erstwhile HORNA guitarist / songwriter Shatraug, who's arguably the most prolific metal musician of that same period - have been at the forefront of the ever-fertile Finnish black metal scene. In fact, alongside HORNA, one could say that SARGEIST are the most influential band of that scene, which has gone on to influence countless other worldwide scenes in this millennium.
As has been the way since 2018's significant Unbound full-length, which saw the arrival of erstwhile Nightbringer / Demoncy guitarist VJS among others, Flame Within Flame also sees the arrival of more new members: longtime HORNA frontman Spellgoth on bass and prolific drummer Nur-i-siyah, who's played with Nawaharjan and Decapitated Christ among others. And while that "classic" SARGEIST lineup that included longstanding co-conspirators Torog and Horns (vocals and drums, respectively) certainly set an enviably high standard, Shatraug and crew continue undaunted, arguably more invigorated than ever. Indeed, Flame Within Flame is presciently titled, for the band's spirit is unextinguishable and unquenchable, seemingly infinite in inspiration whilst remaining characteristically - and DEADLY - focused. From the album's opening seconds, this is classic, burning-with-desperation SARGEIST, but immerse thyself in its icily shimmering waters ever so deeper and one will find that there's an almost-melancholic touch to Shatraug & VJS's riff-sorcery. What results is perhaps the band's most atmospheric record to date - credit, too, to the spacious-yet-immediate production - but one still pulsing with ragged, burning-black emotion: truly, the enduring hallmark of SARGEIST's eternal aesthetic. Of especial note is Shatraug resuming vocals, which he hasn't done since the band's early demo days. Return, once again, to misery and comfort with Flame Within Flame!
19 Tracks, includes bonus ep
2003 edition on Mutilation Records
15 years anniversary edition.
Already in the early days „The Stars Are Dead Now“ was advanced with two additional tracks, followed by multiple re-issues showcasing the interest in this recording.CD in classic jewelcase with 4-page booklet on thick stock, decorative obi strip. Silver print on natural black card stock
Music is 100% same as before (no remastering etc!). cover artwork is slightly different - like it has been in most pressings. No new additions. just adjusted old graphics. Significant difference would be that cover is 8 page booklet with all lyrics. including also previously unseen outro lyrics!
