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FINALLY REISSUED ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT ITALIAN
EPIC BLACK METAL ALBUM OF ‘90s

Year 1999: Europe was taken by storm by black metal, the leading force in extreme music. Actually, black metal has been mutating its primary grim and satanic force since the mid-90s and words such as symphonic, epic and melodic started appearing in the bands' descriptions.

Unexpectedly from Italy came a force capable of uniting all these inputs: in summer, under the Last Episode inprint, Stormlord released their debut album "Supreme Art Of War". The eight tracks of the record united the symphonism of bands such as Dimmu Borgir or Bal-Sagoth to melodies coming from epic and power metal and the record became a hot-topic in the European press in a couple of months.

In songs such as "Where My Spirit Forever Shall Be" or "War (The Supreme Art)" Stormlord are able to create solid fantasy-themed hymns for an audience eager to experience sensations akin to Cradle Of Filth, Graveworm and Summoning, with lyrics bathed in fantasy worlds and myths.

Norwegian dissonant death black metal unit Zustand Null is hailing from Oslo and formed in 2009 by Max Engvik and Ion Solounias

The music they offer could be described as simultaneously chaotic and refined; dissonant, punchy, and melodious. Blending blackened metal with thrash and industrial undertones..

After two amazing singles Zustand Null has finally released the highly anticipated full length album titled "Beyond the Limite of sanity" which is a forward-thinking venture through the realms of black/death and industrial metal with progressive touch far beyond the usual confines of the genre

Jewel Case CD + booklet

Since their previous albums "Mass Grave" and "Death Siege" - both released via Season of Mist - Hierophant paved their way into the extreme metal scene in Europe, with a relentless and furious approach.

Following the conquest of the most prestigious stages (Hellfest, MetalDays,
Party.San), the Death Siege ranks pushed the limit to the extreme and ultimately crafted the first live album in the band's career.
Recorded at Hellfest 2023, "Gateway to the Abyss" (released via Dusktone) is the feral representation of what Hierophant is about: Hatred, blood, nihility.
FIRE WILL RISE!

Through 4 tracks mixing funeral doom with ambient and darkwave, Until Death Overtakes Me explores the idea of life being incomplete unless it passes death's threshold.
Antemortem (before death) is not a glorification of death, but focusses on the path to it. Life with its pains and terrors might long for the end, but could just as well explore the freedom that comes with accepting the inevitable.
The contrast between heavy distorted guitars and ethereal ambient melodies mirrors life, but offers an open ending - is life a pained struggle, where one is shoved forwards, closer to death all the time, forcing one to blindly squeeze as much meaning out of every moment, or is it rather a calm stream that gently carries one to the completion of a journey that's best experienced with eyes wide open, regardless of what may come after? More likely, both aspects remain at play : primal instincts balanced by intelligent rationality.

Antemortem is the first Until Death Overtakes Me album after a long hiatus, and forms a bridge between the periods before and after this break.
The track 'Before' dates back to late 2003, 'Days Without Hope' is based on a track that's even older by several years, and best marks the point in time where Until Death Overtakes Me went from darkwave/doom to ambient funeral doom. On the other hand there are the tracks 'The Wait' and 'Inevitability', both from 2016. 'The Wait' is more a experimental, almost mechanical sounding epic, while 'Inevitability' is an instrumental marking the acceptance of the concept of 'Antemortem', as well as its conclusion. 

Missing. What if the searchers falter, pass away? When none are left that hope to find even something to bury, to mourn.
To be missing, to be never found. To never return, and fade away in the shadows of time. To become forgotten beyond all hope of recovery.

Until Death Overtakes Me's 2018 album contains over one hour of mournful funeral doom mixed with orchestral ambient. Missing, named after the song from Until Death Overtakes Me's earlier years, continues the story of that old epic. In four tracks the concepts of loss and being lost are explored.

There's the tragedy on a personal level, of searchers that fail, grow old and find no closure. Of the one lost, stuck in nothingness, wanting to be found. But tragedy grows, touches all, and the music becomes the soundtrack to the funeral of mankind. Empty tones drifting over the desolation, echoing through empty canyons. All the searchers have gone, all those missing are forgotten. There's no one left to remember, there's no hope left.
And when the proof and all remembrance of our existence is gone too, then have we truly been here at all? We're already missing.

After one EP and a full-length record (and the orchestral versions of both, released in between), Italian occult extreme metallers OBSCURA QALMA are back with a new opus.

OBSCURA QALMA is going to unleash a sonic storm with their new EP 'Veils Of Transcendence', blending the relentlessness of death metal with the grandeur of an increasingly barbed orchestra. The band delves once again into the realms of esoteric mysticism, conveying Aleister Crowley's opera. Your OST to the end of the world.

If you are into acts such as Septic Flesh, Hypocrisy and Dimmu Borgir and you are fascinated by the impact of modern death metal and the power of orchestrations, you should really take a listen to “Veils Of Transcendence”.

Norwegian black metal band Enthral has shared members with Dimmu Borgir and The Flesh and their resumé includes four full-lengths.

Having been around since 1996, they've had some style changes -- from a more classical sound with cello and soprano vocals, they moved towards a style reminiscent of earlier Covenant and Satyricon.

Dusktone is now extremely excited to announce the reissue of their third album " Subterranean Movement" originally released in 2003 and out of print for more than 10 years now.

Dusktone is proudly presenting a new album of Canadian ritual doom act Ego Depths.
On his fifth full-length album, the mastermind Stigmatheist melts down into an amalgam his dissonant guitar marches, monstrous growls and throat singing chants; fuses ritual atmospheres with a slow paced doom metal, raging with rare black explosions. Following the conception of his previous releases, Stigmatheist continues to improve his sound, finding new spaces for expanding and transformation, filling the conquered emptiness with ultra black hole heaviness. Extensive use of various ritual instruments, including a signature dan moi (Vietnamese jaw harp) and newly included Aztec death whistle, Stigmatheist manages to create an even deeper atmosphere of an endless doom ritual, inducing a paralytic embracing of the listener with its almost 70 minutes plunge into the abyss. Highly recommended for fans of the genre, looking for a ritual trip to be immersed into!

Official reissue 2023

Here we talk about history!

Qliphothic Supremacy is the debut HANDFUL OF HATE full length album of and became a fundamental step for italian Black Metal metal movement in time.

Finally reissued in deluxe 6page digipack via Dusktone.

Released in 1997, it’is an extreme and crazy record, a furious black of unprecedented violence who blends sharp guitars with clumsy screams, which will later be the band's trademark and mold.

Overall, an exellent, personal and overlooked piece of Italian extreme metal history and a jewel to re-discover and appreciate in its burden of evilness

w/12page Booklet

 

w/ 20 page booklet

With "Caurus" (Mistral, North-West Wind) Anamnesi achieves the goal of the fifth studio album, the second one to be released via Dusktone after the concept album "La Proiezione Del Fuoco". This new Opus is a set of moods that wink to the past works of this one man band but also to a "new" way of songwriting and style choices.

"Caurus" is not a concept album per sé but the songs share the same figurative roots which are wind, water and ground. Those three elements are used as metaphors to tell about the beauty, ties and boundaries that an island like Sardinia may rapresents and how difficult but marvelous at the same time could be to live in such a magical place. It tells about efforts, love, pain, courage, darkness and light.
"Caurus" is about life.

"Seid" is the third studio album of norwegian black metallers KVALVAAG.
It`s more aggressive but at the same time more diverse and unpredictable than our previous albums

The unmistakable style of the Norwegian duo will take you in very cold atmospheres, impetuous rides and clearly epic parts. The atmosphere reminds the previous Malum album, but there is a lot more going on at all times. Haunting atmospheric touches and violent rhythmic elements produce something far bleaker and more unsettling than anything else.

Kvalvaag has this to say about the new album:

"When I started working on the new material, I wanted to surpass our previous work in every way possible. Much more time, effort and better equipment were used compared to our earlier works this time.
We also received financial support from "Norsk fond for utøvende kunstnere" who gave us the ability to give the album the production it deserved.
It was awesome working with Tom Kvalsonic as he is the man behind the sound of many of the albums we grew up with. He completely understood our vision and significantly raised the quality of the album. I feel we have successfully raised the bar as high as possible this time. We had to evolve a lot as musicians to be able to perform our parts during the recording. It has been a educational journey with a lot of hard work and technical challenges in the studio, but I am really satisfied with the end result and our musical progression".