Black Metal

Re-issue of the groundbreaking debut album

With their groundbreaking debut album, Bethlehem gave name to an entire genre: “Dark Metal”.

Gatefold LP (black vinyl) incl. padded inner sleeve and protection sleeve

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DORNENREICH offer a veritable cornucopia of wonderful surprises on their ninth full-length “Du wilde Liebe sei”. The Tyrolean trio has used the more than seven years that have passed since the release of their latest masterpiece “Freiheit” (2014) well to create a new dimension of sound. Although “Du wilde Liebe sei” remains faithful within the Austrians’ musical canon of combining heightened emotional dynamics with expressive momentum, DORNENREICH evolved their trademark sound further into a new dimension: a pulsating earth-rooted web build from percussion, bass, and electric guitars enables their unique vocals, acoustic guitars, and violins to grow wings and freely soar skywards. As the translation of the album title “You Wild Love Be” implies, this record revolves around the mystery of “love” and many of the powerful effects, painful misunderstandings, and complex entanglements that are forever associated with this human idea. Originally audibly inspired by melodic black metal (on their debut album “Nicht um zu sterben”, 1997), DORNENREICH developed a far wider musical horizon on the following seven albums with the progressing inclusion of acoustic instruments and elements derived from folklore and classical music as major contributing factors. Now, “Du wilde Liebe sei” marks the next major step in the band’s never predictable evolution to a unique style, which they have dubbed “black arcane rock”. With “Du wilde Liebe sei”, DORNENREICH enter a new sonic dimension that shines brighter than ever before and witnesses the Austrians climbing onto their highest artistic peak yet – time to get packed and to join their wondrous journey on the trail of love!

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With their third album “Her von welken Nächten”, Dornenreich succeed in increasing the passion of their first two albums in a substantial way: “Her von welken Nächten”, that is one hour of authentic dark and dynamic intensity in nine waves. Thanks to their will to individuality that expresses itself in unique arrangements, multi-layered structures, many surprises, and extremely varied vocals, Dornenreich do justice to their main ambition – raising the intensity without stagnating in the realisation of that aim.

Gatefold 2LP (heavy 180g vinyl, black) with 2 bonus tracks, printed inner sleeves and protection sleeve.

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With its gloomy and epic Dark Metal, Empyrium’s first release isn’t only the groundwork of Schwadorf’s further musical creativity. «A Wintersunset …» was also the starting signal for the label Prophecy Productions, as the name «Prophecy» had previously just been in use for a mail-order.

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EMPYRIUM first played melodic black metal and only later shifted to dark folk. “… ​Der wie ein Blitz vom Himmel fiel …” (“he who fell from the sky like lightning”) was recorded on December 19, 1994, and released earlier in the following year. The Germans’ first demo cassette, which became an underground success just by word of mouth in times before the internet, not only marked the beginning of a lifelong career in music for mastermind Schwadorf; it also triggered the foundation of Prophecy Productions and Klangschmiede Studio E, both becoming internationally renowned in their own right, but also served as a template for black-metal-infused sounds with lyrics inspired by the wonders and mysteries of nature that were picked up by many a band that came afterwards.

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A milestone of the German Black Metal underground.

Secrets Of The Moon’s debut album “Stronghold Of The Inviolables” from 2001 is considered a milestone of German Black Metal. This new edition in a noble Digipak CD also contains the complete recording session for “Thelema Rising” with mostly unreleased tracks.

Neofolk / Acoustic

Merely eight months after their recent studio album ‘Maaäet’, Tenhi present the piano-dominated ‘Airut:Aamujen’, the next chapter in the band’s own ‘Airut’ saga in autumn 2006. The album is the sequel to Tenhi’s ‘Airut:Ciwi’ EP (2001), especially to the track ‘Kielo’. It was originally released in a small limited edition through Tenhi’s own Utustudio label in December 2004 under the name Harmaa.