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Back in stock - Extreme Metal and Dark music
Splatter vinyl, black on red!
Exclusive to this first press: 16 pages booklet 12"x12" (folded)
On the shores of Portugal, deep in the north of the country, a creature lurks in the shadow. Vøidwomb is a black metal quintet born in 2019, which so far released a debut EP, Altars of Cosmic Devotion.
After three years in the shades, the band based in Viana Do Castelo is back to the light with their first full-length album. Spiritual Apotheōsis is a nine-track immersive black metal experience that will guide you through the inherent utter darkness of human condition and the cathartic search for enlightenment.
Mixed and mastered by Diogo Santana at Noise Portrait Studios, with a cover painting by prolific painter Daniel Hermosilla (Nox Fragor Art), Vøidwomb debut album is a record about understanding darkness and sacrificing self to reach transcendence.
Long awaited 3rd studio album of INFERNAL WAR!
"Axiom" was recorded, mixed and mastered in No Solace Studio with M. (Mgla/Kriegsmaschine). The album cover was created by Mentalporn. The 11 new songs on "Axiom" clock in at around 42 minutes.
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Digipack
We Owe You Nothing" marks the highest point in Forgoten Tomb's constant evolution and once more makes it hard to narrow down its sound to some pre-existing labels. Effortlessly blending the eerie, dissonant black metal sound the band is well-known for with muscular sludge/doom riffs and a subtle, nihilistic punk attitude, "We Owe You Nothing" defines the band's personality more than ever, reaffirming its unique sound
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Comes in digipak.
It comes with a 12-page booklet.
Track #13 is a CD only bonus track.
Ares Kingdom is a project comprised of two-thirds of Order From Chaos: guitar visionary Chuck Keller and flagellator Mike Keller on drums
It’s been five years since their sophomore release Incendiary, two since their covers album Veneration, and since Ares Kingdom perfected their brand of blackened thrash/death metal. In this day and age where every hole of the corpse has been fucked to the point of gaping, it’s not uncommon for a metal band to sound derivative. Such is the strength of Ares Kingdom. No other band sounds like them. No drummer. No guitarist. No vocalist. Unavoidably, there are moments reminiscent of Keller and Miller’s former projects, but still Ares Kingdom very much has its own sound, taking from all extreme genres and forging their own on this, their third album, The Unburiable Dead.
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To understand the defining traits of Greek Black Metal, one need only to listen to “The Tressrising of Nyarthotep” by the mighty Varathron. This track, first appearing on the “genesis of Apocryphal Desire” demo, possesses all of the victorious grandeur and tragic melancholia that are the essence of the early 1990’s Greek Black Metal sound. Along with contemporary releases by Rotting Christ and Necromantia, Varathron’s demo material firmly established a style that is thoroughly Grecian in character. Thick with a damp and heavy Hellenistic darkness, Varathron explored a sound that was infused with the epic and the ancient. As with so much of the most evocative and potent Black Metal, the ancient currents are revealed through the expression of the modern. Varathron’s music is as mystical as it is visceral. The recordings on this compilation comprise the earliest seeds of what would become one of the greatest bands in the history of the genre. This collection contains all of Varathron’s work leading the band toward the creation of their monumental debut LP, “His Majesty at the Swamp.” The two demos, “Procreation of the Unaltered Evil” and “Genesis of Apocryphal Desire” reveal the steps that Varathron took that would later come to fruition on their first album. This collection also contains the more refined tracks that were utilized on their first vinyl releases – the “One Step Beyond Dreams“ EP and “The Everlasting Sins” tracks from the split LP with Necromantia – and three additional bonus tracks recorded during the early years. As with the forthcoming Rotting Christ demo collection that NWN! will soon release, the songs on this compilation of Varathron’s early recordings reveal the painstaking emergence of a band’s identity. Absorbed in the context of early works by Varathron’s Greek contemporaries, one also witnesses the development of a sound uniquely specific to a geographic region, so specific, in fact, that it is impossible to imagine such a multidimensional approach to Black Metal originating anywhere else. Both the Regular and Die Hard editions of this release will feature gatefold jackets with artwork by Manuel Tinnemans and layout by Tilmann Benninghaus as well as a 48 page zine booklet. The Die Hard edition will also come with a separate LP (with jacket) featuring the “Live at the Swamp” demo material. Originally released on tape in 2004, “Live at the Swamp” features a live recording and rehearsal recording from 1991. These recordings have been remastered and cleaned up by James Plotkin and the sound quality on this LP, although still quite raw, is markedly better than the original tape version.
