CD

Third album

SHADOW RECORDS (distributed & marketed by REGAIN RECORDS) is proud to present LIFVSLEDA’s debut EP, Manifest MMXIX, on CD, 12” vinyl, and cassette tape formats.
LIFVSLEDA was spawned to earthly existence with the aim to recapture the old feeling of early Nordic black metal - a scene the members, in one way or another and in various constellations, have been involved with since its glorious beginning. With a strong fascination with death and the magic of memento mori, they summon the spirits of old, unleashing four songs of death-worshiping Swedish black metal. Recorded on broken instruments, literally out in the wild, surrounded by the Swedish woods and a creeping darkness, you can feel the rotten stench and presence of something great that once was.
With LIFVSLEDA’s Manifest MMIX black metal is reborn.

CD with 4-page booklet featuring artwork and lyrics.

Rotting Christ formed in 1988. The band's early demo recordings contained Grindcore elements that quickly evolved into something altogether darker. Spearheaded by brothers Sakis and Themis Tolis, Rotting Christ have remained one of the most respected forces in the Black Metal scene since their debut release Passage To Arcturo. The band's legacy was cemented further by the genre classic follow-up Thy Mighty Contract. 

Passage To Arcturo was the band’s debut studio offering and was originally released in 1991. Featuring a lo-fi raw take on Black Metal, Rotting Christ also masterfully wove some of their trademark atmosphere and sombre melodies with occult themes to create something altogether unique for the time, with the band over the years becoming one of the enduring premier staples of the whole Black Metal genre. 

- 6 panel Digipak on uncoated stock
- Black matt lac disc print with black gloss UV lac print
- 12 page Booklet on 170gsm Art Paper

 Six tracks of extremely intense, well crafted, direct and aggressive Black Metal not unlike the greats such as Katharsis and Funeral Mist, but yet maintaining it’s own identity

Vástígr is:
Þ. - guitars, vocals

Special guests:
KH - drums
I - bass

All music & lyrics by Vástígr.

credits

released January 8, 2020

Produced by Stephen Lockhart at Studio Emissary, Iceland.
Bass written and recorded by I at Krummafótur studio, Reykjavík, Iceland

Logo by METASTAZIS.
Cover art by METASTAZIS & Benoit Fabre.

A5-sized digipak with extended booklet, printed on offset paper

Apokryphon is the new project by Zorgh, Darkspace founding member and bassist. This new band has nothing to do with Darkspace, hence it would be inappropriate to make any kind of comparison between the two. Quite the opposite, after twenty years crafting a certain kind of music (and a certain kind of black metal), the Bern-based musician wanted to explore something different, and this is why you should expect a totally distant approach to both themes and sounds. The multi-instrumentalist even chose a new alias for herself, here going by the name of Ophis.

We asked Ophis herself to express her thoughts about this new adventure she embarked on, which you can read hereunder: Apokryphon literally means "hidden" or "dark" and refers to the apocrypha, old esoteric scriptures written by a variety of people that were either actively hidden or controversial and therefore excluded from public viewing or biblical content, for example. Many of them were found to be heretical, some were related to gnosticism. Many of them were written in the geographical area of the Middle East about 2000 years ago. ”Subterra" thematically relates to themes treated in the apocrypha. Musically, it is rooted in black metal, decorated with oriental spices. It is an expression of my own personal and musical identity and themes that touch me generally. I have chosen to liberally interpret both apocryphal texts and black metal in my very own way. And with "Djinn" I have found the perfect voice to interpret most of the vocal aspects. 

After more than a decade of cooperation, at Avantgarde Music we have the utmost respect for the Swiss trio, and when one of the few women in the black metal world expressed her wish to produce an (almost) solo album we knew we wanted to give her our full support before even hearing a single note. Once we had Subterra in our hands, we were but proven right.

We hope you’ll find Apokryphon as interesteing as fascinating as we did. Subterra is scheduled for release on the 14th of February, 2020.

2019 Re-issue in digipack

The debüt Album of the amazing symphonic Black Metal horde!

For years something has been stirring in the cauldron of sinister darkness, patiently waiting for the hour to strike, and now the time of
the wolf draws near. Guided by the will of fire, this magical, musical ourney has been skillfully crafted to lead you into the cave of the
numinous, a journey into the very soul of all that is unholy. An aural doorway between the flesh and the soul, a spiritual bridge between the
conscious and the subconscious, handed down from the beast of eternal destruction to its faithful devotees in order to spread its holy poison
upon the world.