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The first, self-titled offering from Udåd (Mork’s Thomas Eriksen). 

Primitive, raw and real Norwegian Black Metal. 

CD in digipak edition.

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Udåd is the new act from Thomas Eriksen of current Norwegian black metal masters, Mork. As his main band evolves ever further into complex and elaborately textured moods and atmospheres, and after reflecting back on Mork’s first album ‘Isebakke’ as the framework for this new vessel in the pursuit of pure Black Metal grimness, Eriksen delved deeply into this stream of influence to create somewhat of an antithesis to current day Mork, with something utterly “nekro” in its motivations and execution. An unpretentious exploration of the brutal reality of death and the lack of meaning in life.

With a completely stripped down and cold approach, bringing to mind the spellbinding, almost dungeon-like recording sounds from the burgeoning early 1990s black metal movement, this is an exploration of absolute and relentless darkness, for a sparse and primitive trip through the mental abyss of raw feeling. Influence for this self-titled opus also came from outside of the sphere of metal, having being introduced to the works of cinematographer Jørg Buttgereit, more specifically “Der Todesking”, with its art based on the raw and ugly truths that humanity bares within it’s flesh. Udåd is therefore Eriksen’s “Der Todesking”.   

Old Star displays a mastery of the art of the riff, with its 6 epic tracks taking in the best of the old school of Heavy and Extreme Metal combined with a large dose of Doom channelled through the grime of the underground. 

No rest for one of Britain’s most melancholic exports: Just half a year after MY DYING BRIDE returned from their break with their haunting and successful masterpiece »The Ghost Of Orion«, the sons of Halifax raise the curtains to the »Macabre Cabaret«.

The new EP of the band offers three new songs – dark luscious Death Doom ear candies that will dive their victim into a sensual world of darkness and temptation and conceal the borders between sweet pain and destructive illusion.

Reprint, 600 x neon magenta with heavy black splatters 12" (180g), printed innersleeve, full-color on 220g, gatefold jacket, full-color on 350g, all assembled in a PVC overbag.

L’ etichetta francese OSMOSE ristampa due dei
sui primi successi. I Necromantia sono una delle
prime band della scena BLACK METAL greca,
fondati nel 1989. Il primo album “Crossing The
Fiery Path” è stato pubblicato nel 1993, mentre il
secondo “Scarlet Evil Witching Black” seguì nel
1995, con un BLACK METAL suonato con
basso ad 8 corde ed uno stile veramente
originale ! Con art-work rinnovato !
 

Info : "Shadows of the Past" was recorded and mixed at Tico-Tico Studio, Kemi, in October '91. Engineered by Ahti Kortelainen. "Journey to Pohjola" recorded and mixed north from here in March '92. Additional 3 bonus tracks from the "Journey To Pohjola" promo-tape. Remastered at DMS.

All music and lyrics by the Northernmost Killers of the Dead !

On their demos and first full-length Shadows of the Past, the band played death metal. On their second full-length North from Here, the band added progressive elements to their sound. After that, the band made a complete switch from death metal to gothic metal starting their third full-length Amok.

Sentenced split up in 2005, after a farewell album titled The Funeral Album and an extensive farewell tour. On October 1st, 2005, at their last gig, in their hometown of Oulu, Taneli Jarva joined the band to sing a few songs from North from Here, Amok, and Love and Death.

1. Vilseledda Barnasjälars Hemvist 06:39
2. Plågoande O'Helga Plågoande 06:49
3. Krossade Drömmar Och Brutna Löften 08:02
4. Fullständigt Jävla Död Inuti 07:10
5. Ohm - Skoj Att Leva 05:06
6. Total Utfrysning 16:46