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After a quarter of a century and seven albums, MINAS MORGUL have arrived at the core of their artistic identity with their eighth opus "Nebelung".
Free of external expectations, constraints and sensitivities, the result is a work that, in its forbidding coldness, brings out the band's black metal side more than ever, and is thus more reminiscent of the greats of the Norwegian 90s than of the German black/pagan metal scene that MINAS MORGUL have helped to found since 1997.

After a quarter of a century and seven albums, MINAS MORGUL have arrived at the core of their artistic identity with their eighth opus "Nebelung".
Free of external expectations, constraints and sensitivities, the result is a work that, in its forbidding coldness, brings out the band's black metal side more than ever, and is thus more reminiscent of the greats of the Norwegian 90s than of the German black/pagan metal scene that MINAS MORGUL have helped to found since 1997.

2 x VINYL 180g - Gatefold
Coated paper with matt machine varnish 
16 Booklet (30x30cm) - Matt paper 
Nearly 1,5 hours of music!

Completely out of the blue, the former Pagan Metal instance KromleK is releasing a massive double album, consisting of the first part ‘III-III’ with completely new tracks created and collected over 10 years and the second part ‘Upphaf’, a retrospective with selected, newly reworked, recorded and produced tracks from the band's musical history.
After the band came to a worthy conclusion in 2023 with two exclusive concerts, the only thing left to do was to say a final farewell in the form of a final album due to the unreleased material still available.

2 x CD Digifile 6 Panel 
Nearly 1,5 hours of music!

Completely out of the blue, the former Pagan Metal instance KromleK is releasing a massive double album, consisting of the first part ‘III-III’ with completely new tracks created and collected over 10 years and the second part ‘Upphaf’, a retrospective with selected, newly reworked, recorded and produced tracks from the band's musical history.
After the band came to a worthy conclusion in 2023 with two exclusive concerts, the only thing left to do was to say a final farewell in the form of a final album due to the unreleased material still available.

with mirror laminated cover, 30x60 insert, OBI. Remastered sound

FROZEN SHADOWS, formed in 1995 in Quebec, has been a pioneering force in the Canadian black metal scene. Known for their raw intensity and atmospheric depth, the band has carved a distinct path, blending traditional black metal elements with a cold, Canadian edge.

This reissue of "Empires De Glace" delivers an experience of this masterpiece originally released in 1999.

This album combines blistering riffs, haunting melodies and icy soundscapes, now reissued with a special mastering of both formats, preserving its raw and cold essence.

Re-issue, complete updated layout, remastered.

Digital album: you will receive a code to download the album from:

https://avantgardemusic.bandcamp.com/yum

in the file formats you prefer (wav, flac, mp3 etc)

This marvellous box comprises all the material SAMAEL unleashed before the release of their first album Worship Him plus a so far unreleased live recording from 1992.
Despite these recordings showing SAMAEL in their rawest and most primal, unpolished shape, they are nevertheless essential documents of a band that would go on to leave an indelible mark on Black Metal forever. Listening to these early recordings, one cannot but notice that there’s a certain magic immortalised in these relics. Although it`s rather obvious SAMAEL were big time into their compatriots HELLHAMMER back in the day, even the very earliest songs are proof of a band having already found its own identity.

For the first time these pillars of darkness so influential for countless of maniacs worldwide are made available on high quality picture 7” EPs.

The following recordings of the Swiss masters are featured in this box:

EP1: Into the Infernal Storm of Evil (Demo recorded in March 1988)
EP2: Macabre Operetta (Rehearsal recorded in May 1988)
EP3: Medieval Prophecy (7” EP recorded in October 1988)
EP4: From The Dark To Black (Promo recorded in 1989)
EP5: Morbid Metal (Live in Rotterdam in 1992)

Havukruunu is the spirit of freedom, harbinger of oblivion, and it tells you: FLY, YOU FOOLS!

Svart Records is set to release the band’s fourth album TAVASTLAND in February 2025

After three albums, the pieces of the puzzle fit, and Havukruunu, the favorite band of the sensitive and sorrowful returns with a vengeance to blur the line between the real and unreal. The sorrowful guitars of Stefa and Bootleg-Henkka draw threatening dark shadows on the wall, Kostajainen's drumming bombardement pulses like embers of a dying fire in the hearth. All the while, Humö's bass guitar is clanking and wailing like the icy wind rattling windows and banging walls, as Stefa roars and channels messages from the netherworld or preaches wisdom of ancient days, backed by a choir.

Lords of Hell smile approving as the flames of hatred and cunning of their beloved sons drowns a dying old world, and heart of the earth trembles the birth of new and weird. Havukruunu is the spirit of freedom, harbinger of oblivion, and it tells you: FLY, YOU FOOLS! 

Havukruunu’s upcoming album TAVASTLAND tells the story of a small, strange people.

”-TAVASTLAND tells how in 1237 the Tavastians rose in a rebellion against the church of Christ and drove the popes naked into the frost to die. TAVASTLAND reveals our fathers’ centuries old sins and lies of consolation. TAVASTLAND speaks of him, who has become a prisoner of his home, alienated from the land of the forest and is now afraid of the dark with all lights on, surrounded by his smart devices. TAVASTLAND tells about the freedom we lost. TAVASTLAND haunts its listener to the grave, and I will personally open that grave one bleak night, and steal the fading light of your sempiternal soul.”, says Stefa. 

TAVASTLAND is available on Svart exclusive ice & blood vinyl edition, limited to 666 copies. Also available on limited amber & black smoke vinyl, classic black vinyl, CD, cassette tape, and digital platforms. All vinyl editions of the first pressing include a booklet and poster. New Havukruunu T-shirt also up for pre-order now at Svart’s webstore. Release date February 28^th, 2025

Ever since their formation in 2005 in the South East of Sweden, ISTAPP deliver brilliant masterpieces of noble Melodic Black Metal and celebrate majestic uplifting Scandinavian art. Impetuous wildness meets highly melodic aesthetics strikingly harmonious!

Open the gates to the world of Jarl with their new album “Trümmerfestung„ (Ruins Fortress). The quintet from northern Germany confronts you with the darker sides of life. Within the crumbling walls, classic black metal riffs and raw extreme metal join forces.

Sól tér sortna is the epic landmark of 20 years of battle against the sun and its foul worshippers. Never before have 10 such strong battle hymns been collected in an audioable perfection. The spellbinding melodies, the atmospheric soundscapes and the haunting chantings are stronger than ever in this one! This is the soundtrack of freezing victory and life as we know it will end!