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Ristampa 2013 per Season of Mist con bonus disc contenente demotape '97/'98
 

Double CD in Jewel case with 12-page booklet.

SÓLSTAFIR have come a long way from an obscure Black Metal band out of Reykjavik, Iceland to a musically mindboggling and unique mixture of dark Metal, psychedelic passions and an eerily rocking groove – beloved and praised by critics and fans alike.
This band’s journey started in the year 1994 and continuously meandered into something that their many die hard adherents describe as ‘extremely cool’ and ‘different’, now the quartet’s burgeoning creativity has been bubbling up like a hot geyser unleashing their breathtaking double album “Svartir Sandar”, which takes the metamorphosis of these individualists close to perfection.
This eagerly awaited masterpiece comes with a red hot passion like glowing magma and emotionality as stormy as the Northern Atlantic. Ride this volcano with Iceland’s gnarled and twisted cowboys of Rock and Metal!

For fans of ENSLAVED, AMON AMARTH, ELUVEITIE.

For their new album, bassist/vocalist Dylan Desmond and drummer/vocalist Jesse Shreibman exploded Bell Witch's bounds. Like 2017's lauded “Mirror Reaper”, “The Clandestine Gate” is a single 83-minute track -- a composition that pulses and breathes on a filmic timeframe. It constitutes the first chapter in a planned triptych of longform albums, collectively called “Future's Shadow.”

While traces of organ and synthesizer hovered over “Mirror Reaper” and Bell Witch's 2020 collaboration with Aerial Ruin, “Stygian Bough Volume 1”, “The Clandestine Gate” drew those instruments closer to the center of its compositions. The band reunited with their longtime producer Billy Anderson as they began negotiating these new compositional weights. On “The Clandestine Gate”, Bell Witch's twinned voices build off of the chantlike textures of previous records while steering toward more developed melodic lines, structured harmonies, and rhythmic death metal growls.

The immense gravity of a work like “The Clandestine Gate”, which features exclusive stunning cover art by Jordi Diaz Alama, allows ideas to simmer in a way that feels profoundly and somatically intuitive -- not just a philosophical exercise, but an embodied truth. By slowing down both their creative process and the tempo of the music itself, Bell Witch digs even deeper into their long-standing focus: the way life spills on inside its minuscule container, both eternal and fleeting, a chord that echoes without resolution.

Jewel case cd with clear tray, 8-page booklet printed on 135gsm art paper.

Death Doom explorers ASSUMPTION are finally backwith their most ambitious, punishing and visionaire work.Prepare thee for a psychedelic and obscure journey!
For fans of diSEMBOWELMENT, Disma, Evoken, Oranssi Pazuzu

Bear witness to 'Ascetic Reflection', the long awaited return of the Australian power-trio ALTARS. In eight tracks spanning 40 minutes, the group bends Death Metal to its will in new transcendental forms. An evolution that reflects and expands upon the sound established by the group's critically acclaimed debut 'Paramnesia'.

For fans of Ulcerate, Gorguts, Portal, Dead Congregation.

For fans of Dead Congregation, Krypts, Phrenelith, Engulfed, Altarage

From the primordial magma before the beginning of time come FOSSILIZATION. Obscure, vile and crushing Death Metal.

Fossilization is a death metal band formed in 2020. The duo featuring members of the sludge/death/doom metal band Jupiterian, V. (voices, guitars, bass) and P. (drums) started as an idea right after their european tour with Krypts, Father Befouled and Encoffination but since Jupiterian was still working on their last album, the project had to be delayed and it only turned to full time band after the striking of the plague.
Their 5 tracks debut EP, 'He Whose Name Was Long Forgotten' was recorded in their hometown, São Paulo - Brazil and mixed by Otso Ukkonen (Krypts).

DigipakCD with 8 pages booklet.

Making heads turn since 2016 with the cosmic Death Metal exposed in their Demos, Eps and splits with Undeath and Into Coffin, Italy's Devoid Of Thought finally release their 40 minutes debut full length combining influences from bands like Timeghoul, Blood Incantation, Voivod and Incantation in a unique, bizarre and twisted vortex.
For fans of Blood Incantation, Timeghoul, Voivod, Demilich.

Jewel Case CD with 8 pages booklet.

Death Doom explorers ASSUMPTION are finally backwith their most ambitious, punishing and visionaire work.Prepare thee for a psychedelic and obscure journey!
For fans of diSEMBOWELMENT, Disma, Evoken, Oranssi Pazuzu