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Milky Clear/200 - deluxe silver laminate gatefold jacket w/ poster 

Pressed on blue / white marble heavy vinyl. Comes with download card. Colors on final records may vary to a degree from the mockup.

A prodigious collision of intoxicating Black Metal ferocity and late-night Atmospheric Jazz – "deviant music with the shade of noir".

Comes with 12"x12" 2-page insert and a download card. Pressed on green galaxy effect heavy vinyl. Colors on final record may vary to a degree from the mockup.

Furious and intimate, exciting and intriguing, "Futility Report" stems from a thoroughly modern vision, an innovative interpretation of Extreme Music which breaks down established codes whilst simultaneously deep-rooted in the obscure history of Black Metal.

"Futility Report" - or the metallic version of ULVER’s legendary "Perdition City" - is a new form of Dark Music, a serious piece of Art far removed from usual clichés and a significant forward step.

Pressed on transparent red w/ black smoke heavy vinyl. Comes with red hot foil logo and title on the front of the gatefold sleeve, a 20-page 12"x12" booklet and a download card. Colors on final records may vary to a degree from the mockup.

The ever-inventive Ukrainian Black Metal band WHITE WARD unleash their defining third full-length "False Light", a grand work of exploratory depth which shape-shifts rhythmically creative, furiously melodic Black and Death Metal through brass-led darkjazz, stately post-rock and gothic Americana/post-punk into an indispensable record from a stunning band at the top of their game.

Pressed on dark grey marble vinyl. Comes with printed innersleeve. Colors on final record may vary to a degree from the mockup.

"777 – Sects(s)" is an organic, cascading volume of deviant, dark art that exhibits BLUT AUS NORD’s natural habitat, a cleansing blade amid transitory moments of non-importance. Hypnotic guitars, discomforting beats and alienating voices clash with the ferocity of aural tectonic plates to produce horrific Black Metal decadence for an anonymous, lost, irrelevant generation.

Pressed on white marble heavy vinyl. Comes with a download card. Colors on final records may vary to a degree from the mockup.

Averaging an album per year since their 2018 formation, this latest expression from the rightly-revered Swiss Atmospheric Black Metal band AARA shows no drop in quality, nor let-up in their perpetually questing sense of purpose.

In follow up to 2023's "Triade III: Nyx" - the climatic installment of the 'Melmoth' trilogy based on Charles Robert Maturin's classic Gothic novel - the band now break away from the literary and apply their stunning musicality to real-world events.

"Eiger" is conceptually focused on the 3967 meters mountain of the same name in the Bernese Alps. Since 1935, at least 64 climbers have died attempting to conquer the Eiger’s sheer, ice-covered north face which has earned it the nickname of 'Mordwand' ('murder wall'). The album specifically examines an attempt to climb the Mordwand in July 1936 which ended in tragedy, as four young mountaineers succumbed to treacherous conditions and disappeared, presumed caught in an avalanche.

AARA's music has evolved dynamically in tandem with the subject matter, becoming more visceral, tangible and hauntingly powerful. An organic and spacious production allows the trademark elegiac, spirited leads and reverberant acoustic guitars of main-composer Berg to give increased emotional weight to a performance of on-the-edge savagery from vocalist/lyricist Fluss. The icy melodies, pensive moods, vibrant plummets and shifts/drifts contrast the wonderment of the natural world with a heightened sense of existential malaise and ultimately horror.

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"Il viaggio eclettico dei White Ward riprende con un secondo full-length, questa volta volto a solcare il grigiore delle strade cittadine, riprendendo il discorso dove era stato lasciato ma riscrivendolo con un tono di luce e cromature stravolti rispetto all’ottimo debutto, “Futility Report”. Il senso di disincanto resta intatto, e quello che a un primo ascolto sembra un venir meno dell’effetto sorpresa (l’afflato trip hop, il sax, il jazz, le aperture non metal già riscontrabili in precedenza) è in realtà un approccio diverso alla materia, una riscrittura del proprio nucleo, una revisione, se vogliamo, del proprio punto di arrivo. Il post black precedentemente affrontato in maniera più diretta dagli ucraini diventa qui un metal estremo sperimentale di più ampia definizione, una discussione musicale che studia se stessa e cambia i connotati di una propria opera senza volerne svilire i punti cardine ma volendo riattualizzarne i tratti di fronte ad un tema diverso. Sono assolutamente necessari ascolti ripetuti per entrare nell’ordine di idee del nuovo disco dei White Ward, un trip intriso di depressione urbana, di dissolutezza cosmopolita all’ombra delle insegne di negozi 24/7, dei casino aperti tutta la notte, di rotaie e taxi sempre disponibili; racconti di sguardi solitari affacciati a una finestra, testi esistenziali piuttosto efficaci e una resa sonora che, come già detto, all’inizio sembra lasciare un po’ di amaro per il suo non stupire come il debut faceva, e che invece giro dopo giro sul lettore porta il discorso a dilatarsi e a perdersi tra i vicoli oscuri di una metropoli. “Love Exchange Machine” parla di sfaccettature, di colori che cambiano e che si perdono e poi si confondono, di sottili confusioni, di sagome non distinguibili e che cambiano forma ad ogni passo verso di loro. Tra aperture ferocissime, giri quasi new wave, assoli di sax e strumentali di sole tastiere, i White Ward continuano a produrre della musica di non facilissima assimilazione, complessa, densa (sette brani per più di un’ora di musica), certamente non per tutti ma non per questo troppo elitaria, che alza l’asticella del genere di un’altra tacca."

Release date: 12/05

Furious and intimate, exciting and intriguing, "Futility Report" stems from a thoroughly modern vision, an innovative interpretation of Extreme Music which breaks down established codes whilst simultaneously deep -rooted in the obscurehistory of Black Metal.
"Futility Report" - or the metallic version of ULVER’s legendary "Perdition City" - is a new form of Dark Music, a serious piece of Art far removed from usual clichés and a significant forward step.
Embark on a uniquely fascinating journey and let yourself be enchanted by an ambitious entity with designs on your soul!

First batch comes in black polycarbonate CD.
 

Comes in a 4-panel digipack with 20-page booklet.

The ever-inventive Ukrainian Black Metal band WHITE WARD unleash their defining third full-length "False Light", a grand work of exploratory depth which shape-shifts rhythmically creative, furiously melodic Black and Death Metal through brass-led darkjazz, stately post-rock and gothic Americana/post-punk into an indispensable record from a stunning band at the top of their game.

ANFAUGLIR was forged by US multi-instrumentalists Lord Bauglir and Griss as an exploration in storytelling through epic symphonic Black Metal. Based upon the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, the duo aim to match the source material's scope and grandeur with unique cinematic compositions which transport listeners directly to Middle-earth.

Originally active 2004-2010, when they released cult 2008 debut album "Hymns over Anfauglith", ANFAUGLIR are now resurrected in glorious style to unleash a new suite of rousing, emotive and triumphant longform manifestations of a legendary mystical world.

Avoiding traditional song structures, the immaculately-produced new opus "Akallabêth" - meaning 'The Downfallen' in Adûnaic, the language of Tolkein's Númenoreans - is written and arranged in the vein of a traditional classical symphony. Themes and melodies develop, recur and transform, entwining delicately rapturous motifs with violent tragedy through the vastness of multi-layered orchestration, choral majesty, evocative chamber-work and sweeping Black Metal.

Comes in a 4-panel digipack.

"I I", the aptly-titled and comprehensively majestic second album from BLOOD ABSCISSION fortifies the veiled project as a major new player in the increasingly overcrowded field of contemporary Black Metal.

While the sense of perpetual forward motion and cascades of opulent melodies from outstanding 2023 debut "I" remain, the band here raise their compositional acumen: balancing out eruptions of chaotic rage with mystical transcendent calm, increasing push/pull dynamics to elevate the physical and emotional weight of each piece, and delivering upgraded songcraft to pack an ever more affecting punch.

The five tracks comprising "I I" are a showcase for first-rate symphonic layering, riffing of multifaceted power, steamrolling rhythms, and sublimated vocal fury with a wider sweep of feelings than before. Produced with crystalline clarity for the ultimate drive, this is an elegiac, intoxicating and compulsive odyssey through unseen inner/outer universes.

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"Rituale Satanum" is almost universally acclaimed as BEHEXEN’s masterpiece, a record that belongs in every respected record collection truly dedicated to the original Black Art. A dark and possessed work of Satanic Black Metal in its darkest and purest form, "Rituale Satanum" is a quintessential explosion of unadulterated blasphemy, spewing forth intense and funerary riffs while sanctifying infectious, timeless melodies.