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Official re-issue, 6 panels digipak

Ready to ship 27/02/2020

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Deicide, Morbid Angel e Sinister (o Dead Congregation, volendo citare un gruppo più recente) sono quindi i primi termini di paragone di “The Sixth Hour”, opera che porta a termine il restyling avviato dal precedente “Ritual Theophagy” in un’escalation dai toni barbari e diabolici, allentando e irrigidendo la tensione secondo un gusto sopraffino e un’assoluta padronanza delle dinamiche del songwriting. In effetti, si potrebbe pensare ai dodici episodi della tracklist come a percorsi sonori che – partendo da basi piane – finiscono per arrampicarsi su pareti più ripide e frastagliate, all’insegna di una tecnica messa sempre al servizio della narrazione e lungi dallo scadere nell’onanismo di molti act contemporanei. Proprio come su un “Covenant”, un “Hate” o un “Once Upon the Cross”, ogni brano presenta almeno un riff o una melodia che si imprime a fuoco nella memoria, con esiti che fanno subito pensare al bagaglio old school della formazione lombarda, tra parentesi spaventosamente orecchiabili, digressioni infernali e affondi nel caos organizzato di marca Trey Azagthoth.
Tre quarti d’ora di musica che, dalla hit istantanea “Hail, King of the Jews!” all’epica “I.N.R.I.”, passando per l’omaggio a “Desolate Ways” di “Blessed Are the Wombs That Never Bore”, ci riconsegnano dei Blasphemer all’apice dell’ispirazione e della maturità stilistica, oltre che sancire il primo grande disco death metal dell’anno.

Depressive and uplifting; a journey of massive peaks and bottomless caves. Unreqvited’s take on post black metal is one that paints a canvas of musical diversity, with elements of expansive post-rock, tortured dsbm vocals, shimmering blackgaze melodies and grandiose orchestral segments.

With their debut LP “Disquiet”, Unreqvited lays down the foundation for their somber, melancholic sound by using hallmark principles of black metal like torrential blast beats and tremolo sparingly. Instead, opting for emphasis on melodies and synthesizers to invoke thoughts of frozen woodlands and a troubled internal state.
 

Third album

4 new hymns, recorded in the same session like Sargeist's latest full length masterpiece, Unbound, showing nothing but Satanic Black Devotion.

New Album

4 new hymns, recorded in the same session like Sargeist's latest full length masterpiece, Unbound, showing nothing but Satanic Black Devotion.

 Tombs opened by fervent tongues - a new EP of Shrine of Insanabilis

new edition in digipack and revised artwork

Third album

Visionary Vials of Wrath's newest album delivers forty minutes of cold yet detailed and intimate atmospheric black metal. The drums undergird the melodies admirably, and the dynamic between the acoustic and electric guitar passages is seamless and lovely.

SHADOW RECORDS (distributed & marketed by REGAIN RECORDS) is proud to present LIFVSLEDA’s debut EP, Manifest MMXIX, on CD, 12” vinyl, and cassette tape formats.
LIFVSLEDA was spawned to earthly existence with the aim to recapture the old feeling of early Nordic black metal - a scene the members, in one way or another and in various constellations, have been involved with since its glorious beginning. With a strong fascination with death and the magic of memento mori, they summon the spirits of old, unleashing four songs of death-worshiping Swedish black metal. Recorded on broken instruments, literally out in the wild, surrounded by the Swedish woods and a creeping darkness, you can feel the rotten stench and presence of something great that once was.
With LIFVSLEDA’s Manifest MMIX black metal is reborn.