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Back in stock - Extreme Metal and Dark music
Slipcase on solid-black cartonstock with silver print · 3-panel (6-sided) digipak on solid cartonstock with UV Highlights · 10 pages booklet
"Dear disciples of the Great Old Ones, dear offsprings of their greatness! For over 20 years lost in the Endless meanders of outer space, far from men's Devious existence, worshippers of their own Decline... I've been working, dead but dreaming, on the creation of a new Requiem beyond Light and Shadows. From my cosmic journey, a circle of four hateful bringers of blasphemy has been gathered to bring 8 Symbols of slimy and crawling ocular distorted art so called "black metal", the way it shall be... Today, with malicious pride, we bring you, dear disciples and dear toys, what many of you have been asking for these past two decades. And no one was better suited to bring this nightmare to your innocent ears and to sublimate it than the nonetheless well-known Ludovic Tournier who gave its final form to this new Stone, achieved and erected in 20 years from the Echoes of painful torments. A final shape of a nightmare that has gone through many manifestations... The chaos starts again exactly where it left off... Dear disciples, dear puppets, I have the great honor to introduce you to the new form of an old succubus: OMEGAETERNUM May the Incantation begin... Spread their wrath!"
1. Centuries Of Human Filth 07:42
2. Apathetic Pride 05:02
3. Boginki 13:27
4. Where Angels Rot 07:22
5. Era Of Decadence 07:02
6. The inanity Of Man 10:09
7. Apocalypse 06:47
With free bonus CD
The live heritage of In The Woods...
In autumn 2000 In The Woods... announced their break up.
However, quitting without leaving any final mark would not have been appropriate for this band. The mammoth project called "In The Woods - Live At The Caledonien Hall" took place on 29th December 2000 in their hometown Kristiansand, capturing a three hour restrospective of one of the most important bands of our time.
Black Vinyl
It was but March 2021 when Austria's AUSSICHTSLOS burst from the void, fully formed, with their Völlig Aussichtslos debut album. Remarkably assured, classically inclined, the power-trio presented grim, harsh, but oft-hard-rocking black metal that favorably recalled the post-Strength & Honour landscape of Finland as well as ancient-days Germania ala Luror, Wolfsmond, and Hellfucked. Six months later, AUSSICHTSLOS amazingly released another full-length, Einsicht. While it was chronologically their second album, Einsicht was actually recorded in 2020, before the release of Völlig Aussichtslos took place. Either way, between the two records did AUSSICHTSLOS show themselves as new contenders in austere black metal classicism, capable of tradition but also thought-provoking lyrics reflecting upon inner struggles so universal to the human experience.
And so it goes with Schicksalstotschlag, arguably AUSSICHTSLOS' most desperate record yet. While it may've been quiet on the Austrian front the past few years, that does nothing to dim the fire of their third full-length: Schicksalstotschlag is at once urgent and reserved, violently passionate but poised and stoic - and of course, as anthemic as ever. Not for nothing is PURITY THROUGH FIRE known as the stronghold of Teutonic steel, its sword-wielders capable of a catchiness as wild and windswept as any biergarten, and AUSSICHTSLOS keep apace on Schicksalstotschlag, keeping the riffs rocking as ever and the heart enflamed with emotion. Their production, as always, is on the palatable side of "polished," crisp and clean and gleaming with steely-eyed pride, making these nine songs the penultimate in battle-charging bombast and ballast. Credit new drummer Kartharziss (who also provides tasteful synths) with that proud pulse, although vocalist / lyricist Norsk (unchain his heart!) and fellow six-stringer Garst hold their own and help make the closing nine-minute epic "Hochverrat" the band's best track to date. Black metalsmiths of destiny, unite again for Schicksalstotschlag!
Official re-issue through Xtreem Music with 2 bonus, of the CD that was originally released in 2011 which includes the two legendary demos "Descent Into Chaos" ('88) & "Immortality's End" ('89), the 7"EP "Fade From Reality" ('91) and 2 compilation tracks from '94 by this mythic US band of true Death Metal somewhat in the vein of very early MORBID ANGEL, SADISTIC INTENT, MERCILESS, POSSESSED... but way more intense and aggressive. An essential masterpiece!!
