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Norvegian Black Metal

Two Tracks:

1.Among the Dead 18:48
2.Tomhet (Burzum cover) 13:07

Gatefold cover with A4 sized book insert
Double vinyl in two colors options: smoke gold/black on clear-vinyl (100) or black (200)

(This version: GOLD-BLACK MARBLE)

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.

Montreal extreme metallers CRYPTOPSY will release their new EP, "The Book Of Suffering Tome 1",
It has been three years since CRYPTOPSY's last release and many fans have expressed their eagerness to hear new material. ?This time, rather than a full album, CRYPTOPSY will release a series of EPs titled "The Book Of Suffering".
 

New album digipack

Hellish God was born in 2015 by the insane minds of Luigi Contenti and Michele Di Ioia.
Their intent was simple: to play Satanic Death Metal in vein of bands as Deicide, Diabolic, Krisiun and Rebaelliun.
Tya (Antropofagus, Mindful Of Pripyat) joined the band as frontman and lead vocalist in 2016 and the band recorded their debut EP called “Impure Spiritual Forces” four songs of devastating and savage death metal featuring Fabiano Penna of Rebaelliun.
In 2017 Stefano Malgaretti (ex-Imposer – ex-Voids Of Vomit) joined forces with the band as bass player and backing vocals. In January 2018 the band signed for the rising Everlasting Spew Records and released their first full album called “The Evil Emanations”, recorded and mixed by Carlo Altobelli at Toxic Basement Studio. The record was a collection of ten tracks of pure and devastating death metal featuring Rangel Arroyo from brazilian war machine Abhorrence.
In 2020 the band announced the split, but returned in 2024 with the original lineup duo ready to release their second full, again recorded at Toxic Basement Studio. This time the tracks are eight hymns of wrathful and chaotic death metal with a featuring of Brian Malone, former guitarist of Diabolic. 

La mente degli OPERA IX Ossian ha commentato: ‘ “The Gospel” è un concept album focalizzato sul mito italiano di ‘Aradia, o il Vangelo delle Streghe’ scritto da Charles Godfrey Leland e che contiene ciò che l’autore pensava essere il testo religioso di un gruppo di streghe pagane in Toscana, documentando il loro credo e i loro rituali.

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