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“Thrashin Blues” finally available again, Thrash Metal with a dirty blues edge!

Violent Playground is one of the many Thrash Metal bands that ended up forgotten without ever having serious opportunities; the fact is that they deserved much more than their peers. In 1988, they were able to create an unparalleled blend of Thrash Metal, Hardrock and Blues that did not open the doors to fame for them at all.

These five guys lived their musical experience exclusively within the underground scene for a relatively short time (about three years), without any chance to emerge in the slightest (at least to achieve the popularity of groups like Tankard, Razor, and so on). For this series of reasons, the group is one of the most ignored within its environment. And their “Thrashin Blues” has become a collector’s item. The only link Violent Playground has with the world outside the underground is the album cover: created by the famous Ed Repka, the same who drew for Megadeth, Death, Toxik, Vio-lence, and others.

It’s no coincidence that they deserved more than many other bands of the time: their only album is a true masterpiece. Frankly, we do not find a single excessive derivation, a single plagiarized note; you can hardly even hear the influences from the usual genre epigones, but the sound is typically thrash, accompanied by contamination ranging from Blues to Classic Rock. The production isn’t too raw for a record like this, made of captivating riffs and solos that haven’t been heard since the days of “Kill ‘Em All”. The originality of the product is evident from the very first spectacular seconds of the title track.

Unable to repeat themselves and strained by the harsh failure of the album, the Playground disbanded shortly after, and with them, that kind of explosive mix of “blues fusion” came to an end.

- 300gsm Jacket With Matt Varnish & Inside Flooded in Black
- 140g Transparent Purple Vinyl
- 250gsm Cardboard Insert
- Limited To 300 Handnumbered Copies

- 350gsm Jacket with inside flooded in black and matt varnish
- 140g Black Vinyl
- 250gsm Insert on Art Paper
- Limited to 500 copies

10th anniversary 2CD version of Touched, originally released on CD by Alien8 Recordings and LP by Conspiracy Records, now available again on Consouling Sounds with a bonus disc of demo versions of the full album, recorded at Commonwealth Studios in Toronto.

Limited Edition of 1000 with 20 pages booklet in a thick mediabook

ANTRISCH [Austro-Bavarian term for eerie or uncanny] is a blend of different styles of Black Metal mingled with portions of Doom, Djent and Dark Ambient.
Lyrically ANTRISCH is exploring the inner world that is the wide range of expressions bred by the human mind and inner life
as well as the outer world by treating substantially the vast landscapes and forces of nature experienced through bygone ventures to the world's most extreme sceneries.
This project is a musical & lyrical expedition to the heights of the world and the depths of man.

The recording of Absolute Elsewhere with All Gates Open (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) includes a 73-minute documentary. Now available on home video, this documentary takes you deep into the legendary Hansa Tonstudios as the band rehearses and records, featuring appearances from members of Tangerine Dream, Hällas, and Sijjin. The soundtrack and documentary were initially available only in the Deluxe Artbook edition of Absolute Elsewhere.

CD Digipak

Self-titled albums usually suggest either a questionable "return to the roots" or a band reinvention of sorts. For brooding black metal beasts, Bethlehem, however, the release of the eponymously titled ‘Bethlehem’ marks the 25th anniversary of the group, which the German group celebrates in their own wayward style.

‘Bethlehem’ is a welcome rejuvenation in every respect. When the line-up that recorded their 2014 release, Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia, fell apart, founding member/mastermind Jürgen Bartsch took the bull by its proverbial horns and matters into his own deviceful hands.
 

LP version with violet vinyl, A4-sized 12-page booklet, double-sided poster and OBI strip.

Stormkeep return with symphonic black metal that feels hand-built and world-sized: sweeping orchestration, driving momentum, and a darkly radiant sense of grandeur. Bridging distant, mythic eras with the urgency of the present, their songs unfold as transporting epics—majestic, precise, and utterly absorbing.