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Chante, Ô Flamme de la Liberté est le premier album du projet solo de Moribond (Forteresse, Ephemer), Serment. l’opus est un album concept racontant la légende d’un pacte avec le diable et la quête d’un héritage perdu, un voyage sombre et épique au cœur des forêts québécoises enneigées, enfouies par-delà les neiges des époques. Musicalement, bien que la signature épique et grandiose propre à Moribond soit aussi présente que toujours, Serment explore des avenues plus crues et symphoniques que Forteresse. Une superbe nouvelle entrée au sein du panthéon du Métal Noir Québécois!

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Official reissue in limited edition six panel Digipak Cd of the legendary Ep originally released in 1997 with restored original cover artwork and unreleased photos.

A masterpiece made of epic songs, furious harsh vocals, tight drumming and a strong romanticism which built the very essence of 90’s Black Metal.

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The cursed spirits of the Arizona desert are rising! Drakkar Productions is proud to present SHADOWS OF ALGOL, an American band from Tucson, active since 2016. “Transformation of the desert witch”, their debut album, goes straight to the point with a fierce and raging Raw Black Metal, powerful and suffocating, as a storm of sand ravaging everything in its path…You definitely won’t come out unscathed!

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SHORES OF LADON’s new EP “Heimkehr” (‘homecoming’) includes four new songs and a cover version, spanning over 26 minutes of duration altogether. The title itself shows yet again the band’s subtle sense for ambiguity: While referring to Orpheus’ retrieval of Eurydice from the underworld, which forms the core concept of the lyrics herein, as well as to a poetic German word for death, this EP also features old pre-Shores of Ladon songs ‘returning home’. Two of them (“Verlust” and “Jagdgrund”) originate from a nameless demo tape recorded in 2006 by St. and drummer M. (Cold Earth, Thorybos, Stygian Temple) with the lost lyrics being substituted. Also the title track pre-dates the band’s formation and was written by guitarist Nosophoros in 2008, re-arranged for SoL’s “Promo 2010” and now taking its final shape with re-arranged lyrics on this EP. Last but not least, and as very personal gaze into the past, “Abstieg” and “Weltenende” illustrate various SHORES OF LADON members’ deeply rooted passion for the Neofolk genre. The first is an own rendition and tribute while the latter is a cover version of one of this culture’s greatest hymns of the last two decades, “Ragnarok” by mighty Sonne Hagal.

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Eight years have past since SHORES OF LADON’s acclaimed debut album “Eindringling”. Finally, Sol Records brings to you its successor: “Witterung”. In German language the title itself refers to an old-fashioned word for weather as well as to the animalistic sense of smell, especially in hunter’s vocabulary. Similarly SoL’s music on here sets wolfish passion, invasively detailed guitar work and sharp tension-filled songwriting amidst an endearing autumnly cold Black Metal atmosphere. Together with the equally multi-layered poetic lyrics – filled with emotional chasms, intensive experiences in nature and subtly interwoven motives from literature and folklore – these seven songs, encompassing 48 minutes with no intro, outro or intermezzo, might easily represent SHORES OF LADON at their artistic climax so far.

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Silver Knife are a Belgian/Dutch/French black metal entity driven by an aggressive melancholy, and Unyielding/Unseeing is their first public recording. Written and recorded in Belgium during the Summer of 2019, these six songs embody both a reminiscence and departure from the musical styles the musicians have exhibited through bands like Cult of Erinyes, Hypothermia, Laster and Nusquama. Balancing between a bittersweet, glimmering atmosphere and sheer force whilst engaging with themes such as obscured alienation and interminable conflict, Silver Knife provide a sharp soundtrack for those who are too reluctant to wallow in self-pity, offering a harsh incentive in the midst of trying times.

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First full-length album of this Finnish Black Metal entity.

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Skalf è un progetto musicale creato nel 2020 da due membri di Umbra Noctis, extreme metal band attiva dal 2005. La loro musica si distingue per un sound a nostro avviso piuttosto particolare, influenzato tanto dal black metal atmosferico quanto dal death/doom degli anni novanta, con un tocco quasi heavy, che si percepisce in particolare negli assoli di chitarra.
Il monicker “Skalf” deriva del nome dialettale della Val di Scalve (àl de Scàlf), vallata montana delle Orobie cui siamo molto legati; questo progetto è (e sarà sempre) focalizzato sulle vicende avvenute, raccontate e tramandate in quella terra. “Vallis Decia” è un concept sul disastro del Gleno, tragedia colposa di cui quest’anno si celebra il centenario.

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Snowland MMXII” is the complete re-recording of the first Sorcier Des Glaces album “Snowland”.
The band wanted to give an updated vision of their very first work, as they thought the original one had great riffs and atmosphere, but was poorly executed and recorded. They managed to preserve the rawness and the primitive essence that characterized their first album, but with a more defined sound and production values.

Also, Sorcier Des Glaces didn’t use any keyboards on “Snowland MMXII” in opposite to the original 1997 “Snowland”. SDG don’t use keyboards anymore in their songs since the third album (The Puressence of Primitive Forests), so that re-recorded version of Snowland is more in tune with the actual sound of the band.

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Truly, the evidence is there with SORGETID’s first public recording, the full-length Natt av Tusen Dödsfall. Endearingly and engagingly familiar yet done with the deft nous for which V-Khaoz is known, SORGETID’s first salvo is based purely on intuition and the man’s need “to get quite old stuff out of my head – no future, no past.” Existing within those reverently stringent boundaries, Natt av Tusen Dödsfall unveils a landscape rife with melancholy and madness, nostalgia and nightsky mysticism, fury and wonder woven together with elder chainmail forged in the fires of olde. Eight songs across 37 minutes are more than sufficient to paint the atmospheres and sensations that seemingly exist out of time. The album’s no less raw nor polished than it needs to be; rather, it IS, unyielding and undying.