Black Metal

ABHOR are a veritable institution of Italian black metal. Formed in 1995 in the northeast of Italy, the band began with a passion for black metal music and the study of esoteric arts. Less like a band and more like a congregation, ABHOR represent a form of global art that embraces musical art, visual art, and literal art. Their first musical manifestation came in 1998, with the first demo tape In Tuo Honori Preparatum. From there, ABHOR were off and running, subsequently releasing six albums with a variety of labels, doing honorable underground work. Within their ranks came many musicians, including members of compatriots Evol. But, arguably, ABHOR reached their apotheosis with their seventh album (and first for current label home IRON BONEHEAD), Occulta religiO. Released in 2018, this veritable blazing-purple torch conveyed a bewitching mysticism and beyond-the-veil secrecy that showed the band at their most masterful, even at this mature stage.

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The first full-length available again on LP.

– 300gsm Jacket With Matt Varnish & Inside Flooded in Black

– 140g Yellow Vinyl

– 250gsm Cardboard Insert

– Limited To 300 Handnumbered Copies

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Raw Melodic Black Metal from another dimension.

– 350gsm Jacket With Matt Varnish And Inside Flooded In Black

– 140g Grimace Purple Vinyl

– 250gsm Cardboard Insert With Matt Varnish

– A2 Poster On 150gsm Art Paper

– Limited To 300 Copies

Black Metal

And so it goes with the band’s sixth full-length, Esoteric Atavism. Ever aptly titled, Esoteric Atavism’s contents embody that title in a most provocative manner. While BLACK CILICE is esoteric in the extreme, more so is the entity atavistic, and indeed are those energies the cornerstone of this record. Characteristically coated in miles of miasmic rawness that’s an instrument unto itself, the lyrics of Esoteric Atavism delve into the OLD – old energies, old spiritually – and the music follows suit by reconstituting elements from elder BLACK CILICE recordings. Always in the red but now deeper into the black, that’s not to say Esoteric Atavism is a deliberate throwback or crass “return to the roots”; rather, the band’s birth pangs are given a deeper wisdom and wider-screened hysteria for the listener to drown himself in…or avoid, revoltingly stratifying as BLACK CILICE’s black metal may be. More pointedly, riffs are more forthright, with experimentation subtler, and songs in kind shorter: the proverbial ouroboros, then, forever feeding on the past.

Black Metal

By now, BLACK CILICE require no introduction. Arguably THE most pivotal raw black metal entity of the last decade, this Portuguese enigma has come to both define and defy that idiom. Unmindful of the present, not looking to the future, and undoubtedly rooted in the past, BLACK CILICE simply IS, and its vast body of work speaks for itself: challenging, for sure, but transportative and transcendental beyond compare.

And so it goes with the band’s sixth full-length, Esoteric Atavism. Ever aptly titled, Esoteric Atavism’s contents embody that title in a most provocative manner. While BLACK CILICE is esoteric in the extreme, more so is the entity atavistic, and indeed are those energies the cornerstone of this record. Characteristically coated in miles of miasmic rawness that’s an instrument unto itself, the lyrics of Esoteric Atavism delve into the OLD – old energies, old spiritually – and the music follows suit by reconstituting elements from elder BLACK CILICE recordings. Always in the red but now deeper into the black, that’s not to say Esoteric Atavism is a deliberate throwback or crass “return to the roots”; rather, the band’s birth pangs are given a deeper wisdom and wider-screened hysteria for the listener to drown himself in…or avoid, revoltingly stratifying as BLACK CILICE’s black metal may be. More pointedly, riffs are more forthright, with experimentation subtler, and songs in kind shorter: the proverbial ouroboros, then, forever feeding on the past.

Black Metal

The 3rd album available again on LP.

– 300gsm Jacket With Matt Varnish & Inside Flooded in Black

– 140g Yellow Vinyl

– 250gsm Cardboard Insert

– A2 Poster On 150gsm Art Paper

– Limited To 300 Handnumbered Copies

Black Metal

Moonblood’s unofficial 8th Rehearsal, recorded in April and June 1996, professionally restored from the master tape and specially mastered for LP with a length of 90 minutes, spread on 2 LPs.

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Moonblood’s Reh/Demo 12, recorded from January-April 1998, professionally restored from the original tape and specially mastered for LP with a length of almost 90 minutes, spread on 2x LP’s. Limited to 500 copies. Released as Volume IV of The Demo Series.

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Recorded during 1998 and 1999 with a 4 track recorder.

The recordings itself was never officially released and later ended up on “Rehearsal 13”.

Professionally restored from the original tape and specially mastered for LP with a length of almost 90 minutes.