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Back in stock - Extreme Metal and Dark music
Like a sledgehammer in the dark, OUTRE delivered a vicious blow to the unsuspecting in 2015 with their relentless and punishing debut record, “Ghost Chants”.
As the sun begins to set on 2018, smoldering fires reignite, old wounds open anew, and OUTRE return with their sophomore effort, “Hollow Earth”. Pushing the envelope on an already polished and tight sound, “Hollow Earth” sees the band continue to refine their craft, effortlessly weaving blasting black metal dissonance with guttural, down tuned death metal savagery and sludge-like grooves. Ghostly synths and ethereal clean vocals spiral into this blackened vortex, lending their distant cries to a haunting and cavernous atmosphere.
A blade to the heart of all things beautiful, “Hollow Earth” brooks no illusions of hope, and is nothing less than a writhing and hideous abomination of a record.
CD with bonus track "The Swansong of My Heart" (demo version) in Digipak with 12-page booklet
Season of Mist is now reissuing FUNERAL’s ‘To Mourn Is a Virtue,’ which was originally released in 2011.
This release is the missing link between the band’s seminal albums, ‘Tragedies’ (1995) and ‘In Fields of Pestilent Grief’ (2002).
This compilation album contains a wealth of unreleased demo-recordings as well as nine rare tracks that had been recorded between 1996 and 2004 and remastered in 2010.
For fans of EVOKEN, AHAB, MOURNING BELOVETH.
Artwork by William-Adophe Bougereau - "Le premier deuil" (1888).
EXHIBITION OF CONQUEST is an abrupt departure from the undeviating approach of titan hammer; a sojourn into the psyche and Genesis of the band’s original historical concepts, yet realized as a contemporary manifestation. It has been a time for reflection, and time for pause, to energize and gather weapons, planning the next strike.
This true form of Black art is dangerous and intoxicating, a fist in the face of God.
EXHIBITION OF CONQUEST provides a path of escape, to those lost within the current insufferable and nauseating state of extreme music.
This new chapter of the American band is not merely a furtherance of their usual brutal approach . This version has been sharpend to form a Rising Storm of frostbitten icy landscapes, that satiate the seeker of truth.
Once again, all artwork has been created by Francesco Gemelli (Darkspace, Spite Extreme Wing, Forgotten Woods, Abigor…).
Kommandant returns to record all audio at Belle City Sound, in Racine ,WI
(metalitalia.com) "A differenza di altri misteriosi figuri che oggi popolano le tenebre dell’underground black/death, Lalartu continua a conciliare la suddetta immagine incappucciata con un suono che, per quanto complesso, stratificato e ultraterreno, si guarda bene dallo scadere in forme onanistiche di eccentricità e sperimentazione (basti pensare alla recente prova degli Ævangelist). Musica che si è nutrita abbondantemente delle peggiori nefandezze del catalogo Iron Bonehead e Norma Evangelium Diaboli da un lato e di certi titani degli anni Novanta dall’altro, per un risultato complessivo che, sul filo di una gestualità rituale e contraddittoria, sembra volerci traghettare oltre il nostro spazio-tempo.
Così com’era stato per l’esordio “Kadingir”, anche “ITIMA” si configura quindi come un viaggio, un’opera da assimilare nelle giuste condizioni per riuscire a carpirne il linguaggio espressivo e non smarrirsi nel suo reticolo di pieni/vuoti sensoriali, con i primi dati da esplosioni di blasfemia non troppo distanti da quelle di Wrathprayer, Teitanblood o Beyond e i secondi a manifestarsi grazie a parentesi ambient dal sapore etnico e siderale. Un flusso di coscienza (trattasi di un’unica suite della durata di poco superiore ai quarantacinque minuti) che ci mostra il Nostro camminare sull’orlo dell’Abisso per poi descriverne con dovizia di particolari il tuffo in quel maelstrom ribollente e terrificante, con i riff, le ritmiche e le voci a farsi via via sempre più deformi e votati al culto di antiche divinità che creano e distruggono la vita.
