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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Once thought long dead, existing as they did during the ancient days of the early ’90s, Baxaxaxa publicly arose from the dead in 2018 with an exclusive performance at the esteemed Destroying Texas Fest and then a gig in their native Germany. Feeling scorn for nowadays black metal and wishing to stir the cauldron of yore, the then-quintet quickly recorded The Old Evil EP and released it on cassette tape in October 2019. Buoyed by that burning-black momentum, Baxaxaxa released another EP, Devoted to HIM, little more than a year later. Both recordings’ respective titles should surely bespeak the black metal to which the band is beholden: rotten, primitive, and ancient, out of touch and most definitely out of time.

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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

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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.

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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

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Portuguese black metal with two exclusive tracks.

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One of the longest-running entities in the American underground, CRUCIFIER was formed in 1990 by vocalist/drummer Cazz Grant. While myriad lineups would come and go – and the band’s eventual debut album, Stronger Than Passing Time, wouldn’t be released until 2003 – CRUCIFIER have kept consistent to their blasphemous, blackened death metal style steeped in the truly ancient and most underground ways.

Now, four years after their last recording (the full-length Thy Sulfur Throne on High), CRUCIFIER return to ruin everyone’s day with a five-song/26-minute mini-album titled Say Your Prayers. Primal but not primitive, weird and wandering but fully locked-in and never forgetting the METAL aspect, the quartet create a ghastly, grimy experience here, with Grant’s vocals in particular stunning in their diabolic delirium. Furthering that delirium are the mind-mangled leads by Spencer “Madman” Murphy, also aided by Grant, altogether proving that CRUCIFIER’s eldritch sound is eternal.

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“Haunter of the Deep” is an album filled with melodic and melancholic Setapophian Black Metal darkness that will drag you from the shallows into the murky depths below…
A journey to great empires forgotten by time… A trident to plunge and fill your lungs… And as death creeps closer with the tides and you are pulled into the Abyss, bioluminescent beings will become the last light that you see…

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Recorded in the dead summer of 2007 and released in the same year, “Of Celtic Blood & Satanic Pride” is a notoriously polarizing album from this Australian Black Metal entity. An album that awakens the dormant genetic memory in ones veins while exploring the esoteric and occult aspects of the past.
Strong willed and setting a blazing pathway towards all future releases from Drowning the Light.