Black Metal

Recorded live at Bushbash, Koiwa, Tokyo Japan, Oct 31st. 2014

Black Metal

For the past 24 years, SATANIC WARMASTER has remained a highly revered name in the black metal underground: seemingly doing no wrong with converts, but forever riling detractors. Helmed by the tyrant Werwolf – whose involved in the black metal scene stretches back 20-some years, as the original vocalist of Horna – SATANIC WARMASTER have released classic album after classic album, from early essentials like Strength and Honour and Opferblut to relatively more recent monuments like Carelian Satanist Madness and Nachzehrer, and always at their own pace.

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Originally released in 2003, Opferblut consolidated the massive momentum garnered by SATANIC WARMASTER’s influential debut album, 2001’s Strength & Honour, and truly cemented Finnish black metal as a reigning force in the underground for the still-new millennium. Cold and caustic but suffused with a burning passion that has marked the band from the beginning, Opferblut is pure, traditional BLACK METAL done the ancient way – in the glare of burning churches, when madness & mysticism still cloaked the scene.

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The first Satyricon album, Dark Medieval Times, was released in the autumn of 1993, through the young band’s own Moonfog Productions imprint. Recorded earlier that year, it was both instantly recognisable as the product of the thriving Norwegian scene and as something wholly distinctive within that superficially restrictive musical framework. Even more remarkable was the fact that the entire record had been written and performed (with the exception of drums) by a then 17-year-old Sigurd ‘Satyr’ Wongraven: clearly a prodigious talent with an abundance of epic and perverse ideas rattling around in his head.

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When Satyricon released their third album in 1996, their status as one of the most significant and creatively vital bands in Norwegian black metal was already beyond dispute, but Nemesis Divina was no ordinary record or just another step along the road to infamy. From its uniquely vibrant and impactful artwork, which broke every supposed rule in the black metal handbook with its vivid colours and refined aesthetic core, to the supremely confident and idiosyncratic songs and individual performances that heralded a newfound sophistication and a freshly incisive vision, Nemesis Divina almost single-handedly took black metal from its voluntarily shadowy and obscure origins into the glaring spotlight of the international metal scene. It showcased a band that finally had the skill and the musical intuition to back up the undeniable potency of their artistic vision. Sonically devastating and compositionally meticulous, songs like ‘Mother North‘ and ‘The Dawn Of A New Age‘ redefined what black metal was capable of, while proudly retaining the genre’s ageless essence and aesthetic values.

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With Frost’s drumming a key component from the start, the Satyricon unveiled on The Shadowthrone is far closer to the unstoppable, obsidian juggernaut we know and hail today than anything heard on the seminal but occasionally guileless Dark Medieval Times. Informed by the tonality and textures of Norwegian folk music tradition but fuelled by Satyr’s unique vision of black metal, the propulsive, muscular forward grind of grandiose sprawls like In The Mist By The Hills threw down a formidable template, upon which Satyricon have continued to build for more than a quarter of a century.

Gatefold cover, printed inner sleeves

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A ritual in the key of evil, sole member AR pays homage to black metal in all its glory with his own morbid metal style.

Dual-guitar madness paired with subtle and strange synths, bombastic bass, and demonic drums enchant your ears as Satanic screams curse you for the duration of this spell.

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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.

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The “Black Quran” MCD features one long song with interludes and passages to ridicule islam in a most blasphemous way.

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The third album from 1999 from the Swedish black metal veterans SETHERIAL.

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One of the most important Swedish black metal albums from the nineties re-issued on CD.

Comes housed in 300 gsm sleeve coated with matt machine varnish; includes double sided 300 gsm insert. Includes the exclusive vinyl bonus track “Their Blood In Me” taken from the 1995 ep “För dem mitt blod”.