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The quest to bring all Nest works to life in a new mix and for the first time on vinyl is something we take very seriously here at Avantgarde Music. A few months after re-releasing the Finnish band’s first two EPs combined, Fabled Lore / Hidden Stream, it’s time to announce the release of Nest’s classic debut, Woodsmoke, which will be released on CD and LP on January 17th, 2025.

Here follow a few words from Aslak Tolonen, the band’s mastermind. 

"Woodsmoke is the first professionally released Nest full length album. It builds on all the elements that came before and uses them to weave a
fully formed aural storybook. It combines fast driving songs with slower introspective atmospheres. It is highly melodious, and adds a wide
variety of synthetic soundscapes. The core, as always, is the Finnish national instrument - the kantele (a kind of lap harp) - and it is
joined by an even wider range of synthetic instruments, varied percussion, and spoken word vocals meant to evoke the mystical and the
profound. Upgraded audio equipment, with new recording and mixing capabilities, elevates the quality of the material even further. The
result is an inquiring mix of acoustic and ambient, melody and atmosphere, in an entrancing package. It explores the themes of nature,
the grandioseness and the brutality found in the untamed wilds. It conjures up images of the healing waters, the tumultuous summer storms,
and the sparkling winter nights - to both excite and to soothe."

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!"

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!"

Release date: October 4th, 2024 Collector's Edition in 4-panel Digipack with 16-page booklet, limited to 500 copies. Through Qayin's manifestations, Wolves' Winter incarnate his words as heralds of Death. The cult is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, was formed in 2008, and has 5 devoted members who spread the word of the no-light. "The Medivm" is their second album.

Collector's Edition in 8-panel Digipack, limited to 999 copies.

NEW ALBUM! Five songs of intense Black Metal containing the essence of what Ynleborgaz wants to create both musically and lyrically, the latter with a personal insight of how the world shapes your thoughts and how your thoughts shape the world.

True, cult, uncompromising heavy metal from Detroit, Michigan!

With the new second album ‘Dreaming The Strife For Love’, Italy’s Bedsore have jumped headfirst into the progressive warmth and obscure atmospheres of the 1970s. Inspired by the mysterious renaissance-era book ‘Hypnerotomachia Poliphili’, the album musically weaves the concepts of love as a battlefield, where desire and devotion are tested through trials and spiritual awakenings, with visions of pagan temples, mystical gardens, and arcane symbols. An aspirational and operatic aura envelops ‘Dreaming The Strife For Love’, from the longer compositions and spacious production to the extravagant and diverse instrumentation that includes 12 string guitar, copious use of synthesizers, mellotron and organs, fretless bass, percussion and horns; the dynamic range of the album embracing the most crucial elements of prog rock’s lofty imagination.

With the new second album ‘Dreaming The Strife For Love’, Italy’s Bedsore have jumped headfirst into the progressive warmth and obscure atmospheres of the 1970s. Inspired by the mysterious renaissance-era book ‘Hypnerotomachia Poliphili’, the album musically weaves the concepts of love as a battlefield, where desire and devotion are tested through trials and spiritual awakenings, with visions of pagan temples, mystical gardens, and arcane symbols. An aspirational and operatic aura envelops ‘Dreaming The Strife For Love’, from the longer compositions and spacious production to the extravagant and diverse instrumentation that includes 12 string guitar, copious use of synthesizers, mellotron and organs, fretless bass, percussion and horns; the dynamic range of the album embracing the most crucial elements of prog rock’s lofty imagination.

In 2015, NIGRUM was born from fire, from snake-infested tunnels and ravenous worship of death - there, where ancient stones are inspirited by bone-breaking and incessant ecstatic dances. From the mists of the central Mexican highlands and the pyramid temples of Quetzalcoatl that lie there came a turbid and sinuous path that took shape in the form of black metal.

After the first years of this journey, marked by hard strife constant changes, the cutting obsidian breeze of the Serpent brought NIGRUM to Scandinavian shores. After laying the past to rest, NIGRUM established themselves in the south of Sweden. They began with the recording of a three-track demo named Cremer Igne in 2020, which was released later that year. As that year was turning to an end, the band had its first live appearances in Sweden, Denmark, and Germany in its shifted shape after years of silence. The spiritual and creative processes that guided NIGRUM culminated in, and were crowned by, the recording of their debut album. Titled Elevenfold Tail, this momentous birth truly announced the band's arrival.