CD
Aiden Baker/Brandon Valdivia (Canada): Live 2008-14-11 // 3″-CD // 5 Euro
Live collaboration between two canadian musicians, a live improvisation with guitar & drums, detaching from what is Aiden Baker’s trademark sound and going in a psychedelic Krautrock direction. 3″-CD in mini DVD-case, limited to 323 numbered copies and releases by portuguese Universal Tongue. // Sample
Anniversary Circle (USA): Saturated Feathers // CD // 6 Euro
Post-Punk/Goth-Rock. // MySpace
Beneath the Frozen Soil (Sweden)/Negative Reaction (USA): Split // CD // 8 Euro
Crunchy, nihilistic and heavy Doom/Sludge on TotalRust Music. // BTFS Official & NS Official
Cauldron Black Ram (Australia): Slubberdegullion // CD // 10 Euro
Unique Death Metal with a strange atmosphere featuring (ex-)members of Mournful Congregation, Stargazer and Portal. // Official & Myspace
Deathronation (Germany): Exorchrism // CD // 8 Euro
Blackenend old school Death Metal – one of Germany’s best active bands. // Myspace
Extinct Dreams, The (Russia): Ars Moriendi // CD // 10 Euro 8 Euro
Melodic Funeral-/Death Doom including some Ambient influences. Limited to 500 handnumbered copies. // Myspace
Frailty (Lettland): Lost lifeless Light // Digi-CD // 8 Euro 6 Euro
Mixing faster and brutal elements of Death & Black Metal with majestic and ultra heavy Funeral Doom Metal, Frailty have created a sound of their own: Brutal and tormenting, yet still sorrowful and melodic. Recommended to fans of e.g. Swallow the Sun. Debut released by Solitude Prod. // Myspace
Ghäst (Canada)/Abandoner (USA): Split // CD // 8 Euro
Two ultra heavy songs from each band. Ghäst is painful and bleak Drone/Sludge/Doom – recommended to everyone who enjoys listening to Corrupted or Moss. Abandoner is Jaay and Ryan from New York based Unearthly Trance but at different vibe. They deliever some low, industrial-soaked Drone with an overall negative atmosphere. This is an hell of a release and will ruin your happy sunshine day for sure. // Ghäst Myspace & Abandoner Myspace
Highgate (USA): Black Frost Fallout // CD // 10 Euro 8 Euro
Totally destructive and blackening Sludge. This one might be of interest for every Corrupted worshiper. Check these sick fuckers out! // Myspace
Highgate (USA): Shrines to the Warhead // CD // 10 Euro 8 Euro
Totally destructive and blackening Sludge. This one might be of interest for every Corrupted worshiper. Check these sick fuckers out! // Myspace
Highgate (USA): Untitled // CD // 10 Euro 8 Euro
One 54 minutes track of totally destructive and blackening Sludge. This one might be of interest for every Corrupted worshiper. Check these sick fuckers out! // Myspace
Lebensabend (Russia): Demo // CD-R // 3 Euro 1 Euro
First release of this depressive Black Metal act from Moscow/Russia. Well done pro-CD-R with pro-printed full-color booklet & inlay. Over 30 minutes playing-time, limited to 300 copies released by The Kether Crown Prod. // Myspace
Lesmentor (France): … Sable et Soumise … // CD // 10 Euro
Experimental Black Metal. Limited to 500 copies. // Myspace
Locrian (USA)/: Drenched Lands // CD // 8 Euro
First full-length studio album from Chicago’s Locrian. Wide sounds which take you on a travel through abandoned industrial areas guided by gentle guitar strum/synth to epic cavernous Drone. Well-thought compositions, sometimes comparable to Earth‘s »Hex« record. // Myspace
Loits (Estonia): Vere Kutse Kohustab // CD // 8 Euro
Militant Flak ‘n’ Roll. // Official & Myspace
Marzuraan (UK): Five Years Worth of Fuck All // CD // 8 Euro
A retrospective on Marzuraan‘s first five years of existence. This compilations features old rare tracks, rehearsals and live recordings. A sonic travel into this band’s evolution covering nearly everything between Doom/Drone Rock, vibes of Shoegaze and Post-Industrial. Great packaging by Thumbprint Press. Three-panel chipboard sleeve, double-sided print, with stark black letterpress and clear varnish. One of many great releases of scottish At War With False Noise. // Myspace
Medecophobic (Germany): Pandemic of Existence // CD // 5 Euro
Brutal Death Metal with a sinister atmosphere. // Bandcamp
Namtar (Ukraine): Bloody Chunks of Christ // CD-R // 4 Euro 1 Euro
Full-length with 10 songs of blasphemous and anti-christian Black Metal. Very well played and quite aggressive recording. Well done pro-CD-R with pro-printed full-color booklet & inlay. Limited to 300 copies released by The Kether Crown Prod.
Native in Black (Russia): At the Mystic Gates of Eternal Winter // CD // 8 Euro 6 Euro
Black Metal with a certain groove. // Myspace
Necromantia (Greece): The Sound of Lucifer storming Heaven // CD // 8 Euro 6 Euro
Black Metal. Somehow, this material is not able to hold the high standards which were set by the more than fantastic »Ancient Pride« EP. However, definitely of interest for collectors and completists. // Myspace
Neglected Fields (Latvia): Synthinity // CD // 8 Euro
Technical Death Metal – new food for fans of Death or Atheist. // Myspace
o.68 (Germany): Elend // Digi-CD // 10 Euro
Raw, malevolent & claustrophobic Funeral-/Death Doom. Debut full-length mastered at the Gorgon Head (Moss, Persistence in Mourning etc.) and limited to 250 handnumbered copies. Double pocket digipak with silver print and an eight page booklet released by Ominous Silence Rec. // Myspace
Ophis (Germany): Withered Shades // CD // 10 Euro
Second full-length of Germany’s leading Death Doom act. Nihilistic artwork done exclusively by Soleil Tryste‘s Herr B. and printed on special silver paper. Highly recommended. This killer is out on Solitude Prod. // Official & Myspace
Paganus (Finland): s/t // CD // 8 Euro
Ultra heavy bastard from Finland, sounds like Khanate teaming up with classical Death/Doom plus some Crowbar. Recommended. // Myspace
Skyforger (Latvia): Semigalls’ Warchant // CD // 10 Euro 8 Euro
With no doubt the best Pagan Metal band around. This is the re-release of their excellent »Semigalls’ Warchant« demo on CD format plus four new songs. The demo yet has strong Black Metal influences which make it sound more powerful and heavy compared to other bands of the genre. This is a highly recommended release on Germany’s Folter Rec. // Official & Myspace
Thy Kingdom Ablaze (Russia)/ Pestilentia (Belarus)/ Rite of Darkness (Belurus): Tenebrious Triumvirate // CD // 10 Euro
Black fucking Metal – no compromises. CD with A5 lacquered eight pages booklet.
Umbra Nihil (Finland): The Borderland Rituals // CD // 8 Euro 6 Euro
Symphonic Funeral-/Death Doom mixed with 70s psychedelic influences. Meanwhile, »The Borderland Rituals« has been made available for legitimate download. If you like it, please support the band and buy this proper cd. // Official, Myspace & Complete legitimate download
V. A.: Black Plague // CD // 10 Euro
An unholy monument in fight against all life – dedication to one of the most horrific diseases of humanity: The Black Plague. Eastern Black Metal attack with Karna, Caedes, Baal Zebuth, Black Mass Ritual, Black Goat, Frozen Empire, Eggs of Gomorrh, Ritual Suicide, Apotheos IX, Grimnoth, Tanvarpmenkv, Grigori and Misanthropic Art. CD with A5 pasteboard lacquered 4 pages booklet.
Vom (UK): Primitive Arts // CD // 8 Euro
Fantastic mixture of Post-Punk and sinister Goth Rock. And the best on this one is: it doesn’t sound pathetic or clichee but is indeed one of the most interesting non-metal recordings of today. Together with A Place to bury Strangers this is a thousand times more of what Goth should sound like and was decades ago. Highly recommended release – but for open-minded folks only. // Myspace