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Crust is a band from northwestern Russia founded back in 2014.
Themusic this trio creates is a varied blend of styles but can be broadly defined as blackened doom sludge. Their lyrics mostly touch issues such as the degradation of morality in contemporary society, the shift in values, the vices of human nature, miseries and misfortunes that are usually not few and far between in people’s lives.
Dissolution is the fifth studio record by the band, where they demonstrate more black metal tendencies than before, though melodic guitar arrangements, dark atmospheres and post-metal elements are definitely still present. The lyrical theme that unites most of the songs is still the acceptance of inevitable death as the only way of mental and spiritual liberation.
Crust is a hell’s locomotive fueled by the agony of sinful souls, that knows no stopping and is constantly moving forward to new music discoveries.

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Triple LP in trifold cover! Neon orange vinyls, 200 copies limited

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The Burning Circle and Then Dust is Lycia’s fourth studio recording, originally released on double CD via Projekt Records in 1995. Save for a small CD re-release in 2006 by Silber Records, the album has never been reissued since. It is hence with great pride that here at Avantgarde Music we officially announce a new edition of one of Lycia’s masterworks from the ‘90s, due out on 2CD as well as triple LP, making this the first Burning Circle vinyl release ever.
Mike VanPortfleet himself commented: “After several years of doing more synth oriented material I wanted a return to my guitar roots (in particular English post punk and 4AD). Lycia started as a guitar based band and I wanted to reaffirm that with disc one, which was originally going to be the release. I was also listening to a lot of shoegaze then, which inspired a return of making the guitars, as opposed to the synths, the focal point of the atmospherics.”.
Many things have been said about the album along the last twentyeight years, and the band chose the following to describe the record.
Per Projekt.com. - The Burning Circle And Then Dust was a groundbreaking point in Lycia’s career. It marked a shift from more atmospheric music towards song-oriented music with tracks like “Pray” & “Slip Away.” It marked the first collaborations between Mike VanPortfleet & Lycia members David Galas & Tara Vanflower. It marked the transformation of Lycia into a honed out live touring machine.
Per Pandamonium Magazine via Projekt.com. - Moving back into more formal song structures, Burning Circle returns to true song-writing, and places equal emphasis on guitar as the electronics. However, the music is as intense and powerful as ever, conjuring up vast vistas of soundscapes which are captured in delicate webs of song and structure. Songs like “Pray” are positively dance friendly, while others find Lycia moving towards the fertile ground of darkpop. breathtaking in scope and beauty, exultant in vision, exhilarating in sensory delight. Lycia have arrived.
Per Ned Raggett of AllMusic - a high point of American dark rock and the band's greatest and most ambitious work.

In 2017, two years after their first full length album, the Finnish black metal force Aegrus released their second opus "Thy Numinous Darkness".

The foundations already created by the previous album only got stronger and deeper with this second manifest of black metal chaos.

Total black flame igniting blasphemous hymns with catching riffs and melodies, along with lyrics written in devotion of Devil and Death.

black metal band from Finland
 

The sixth full-length album of In Twilight’s Embrace.
47 minutes of restless, haunting and unorthodox Morbid Rock.
Profane and profound at the same time, “Lifeblood” is the band’s own ceremony of opposites.
With equal reverence to the ways of Black Metal of Death from up North, and catchy rock of the decades gone past, but never losing the adventurous nerve, the album shines as their most deliberate statement.

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2CD reissue of a classic UK thrash album!

'In Search Of Sanity' is the third studio album by English thrash metal band Onslaught, originally released in 1989.

With several changes in the band's line up, including the addition of legendary Grim Reaper vocalist Steve Grimmett, and their longest song to date "Welcome to Dying", the album contains a more polished sound than previous Onslaught albums.

'In Search Of Sanity' was incredibly successful, peaking at #46 in the UK charts while the single "Let There Be Rock" peaked at #50, a great accomplishment for an underground thrash metal band!

This 2CD reissue contains the original album, as well as a special disc, recorded live at the Bristol Hippodrome in 1989.

“APHELIC ASCENT” is our second full-length, centred on satanic concepts linked to Chaos-Gnosticism; the end of times (Pralaya) in western and eastern tradistions; the thought of Nietzsche, Frank Giano Ripel and Austin Osman Spare.

Eight Hymns that ritualizie the connection with the most destructive and instinctual energies for the deification of Self, to ascend to states of consciousness beyond all law.

Violent, dark and triumphant, “Aphelic Ascent” is a manifesto of what
the band has developed over these years: an extremist and dissonant
Black Metal, integrated with wide dilated and sulphurous passages
that reveal industrial-ambient suggestions.