Black Metal

First full lenght under Apocalyptic Prods. promises to be one of the best pieces of Chilean Atmospheric Black Doom Metal. Orchestrated with austere decadent passages and dark journey to Mystical South, enriched with Ancestral Cultures in sacred alliance with the Occult. 9 tracks, 12 full color pages booklet, for fans URFAUST.

FIRST PRESSING ON SHIVADARSHANA RECORDS!

Blasting black/death metal magnum opus album from 1996.

A collection of early songs. Primitive Black/Death Metal from Argentina for fans of MYTHOS, TEITANBLOOD, NECROS CHRISTOS, NUCLEAR HAMMER, VON, ARCHGOAT, GOATLORD.

First album by ACARUS SARCOPT from the Charente area, "The First Day With No Sun" offers a desperate odyssey in the inmost depths of nihilism, like an encounter between the universes of Lovecraft, Merritt and Andrei Tarkovski's "Stalker". ACARUS SARCOPT performs Black Metal inspired by DISSECTION, ENSLAVED, AT THE GATES, BATHORY, DEATH, EMPEROR, ULVER... By the way, the album ends with an ENSLAVED cover song. The second CD is made of all the band's demos, as well as the "Steckt Wie Ein Nagel" demo when they were still called L'OMBRE DU SACCAGE (which also featured ASMODÉE members). This double CD presents the complete first part of ACARUS SARCOPT's discography, which will demonstrate that the band does not have to prove itself anymore... A 2 hours descent into Hell, in their tormented universe.

12" DOUBLE BLACK VINYL HOUSED IN HEAVY GATEFOLD SLEEVE

Mysticism, magic, occult arts and rituals, all of which are driving factors behind ACHERONTAS, are also the most adequate words that can be used to describe the band's image, sound and lyrics. The band is considered as one of the leading representatives of the New Wave of Greek Black Metal, heavily influenced by the original Hellenic metal scene, retro rock (especially the 70's rock) and eastern philosophy.

ACHERONTAS was brought to life in 1996 by V.Priest and was ever since true to its internal tenets and traditions, which deemed the band as a "Magical Coven, dedicated to the Ancient Summerian Mysteries of Drakonian Blood". According to the band, "many traditions embracee these ancient sources as footprints and take form in our Void as Astral Vampirism, Hermeticism, Kabbalah, Dream Workings and Luciferian Magic". V. Priest continues, "true sorcery is not an art, it's science... in order to dare, we must know; in order to will, we must dare. We must will to possess empire and to reign we must be silent. We are real to those with eyes to see...”.

"Psychic Death - The Shattering Of Perceptions" was recorded in Grecce, Germany and UK, at the band's own studios (the "Coven’s Corridors of Wilderness"). The album was produced, mixed and mastered at Pentagram Studio by George Emmanuel (Lucifer's Child, ex-Rotting Christ). Cover artwork was prepared by Chris Undirheimar of Blood and Fire Ritual Art studio.

Blending THRASH, DEATH, BLACK and HEAVY the music of A.c.o.D is meant to be melodic, effective and epic! Nobody is able to define their music so they named this new style BLENDED METAL.

Formed in 2009 with an aim to create a unique blend of Doom/Sludge/Ambience/Experimentalism. Heavy, distorted and punishing guitars blend seamlessly with haunting ambience created by vintage synthesizers, feedback and programmed effects.
On their first full-length since 2010's Messio, members Mr.D, Mr.W, Mr.S, Mr. Y create a hammering musical amalgam that runs the gamut from doom, sludge, ambience and a ferocious slashing fury that comes with brutal abruptness. An overwhelming atmosphere of anguish rigorously contrasts a cataclysmic fury raging against both the corporeal and ethereal. All is tenaciously rooted in a vast blackened atmosphere of occultism that hurls listeners into a boundless world: equal parts desolation, misery and rage.
Aethyr manage to condense the work they had accomplished during the previous years into one brutal Doom-punch to the musical mid-section.

Second full length album of this Swedish band playing primitive and raw black/metal punk influenced by HELLHAMMER, BEHERIT, DARKTHRONE and early MAYHEM!

"The self-proclaimed masters of "Swedish Black Metal Mutilation" are torturing the public again.(...) some kind of love it or hate kind of thing the decent listeners know what to expect." - Voices from the Darkside

"We've all heard this kind of stuff before, haven’t we? Yet, this music has its own character and quality. These guys like what they do, and fucking play this music straight from their black hearts. This is ass-kicking and uncompromising music, hell yeah." - Oldschool Metal Maniac

"Lo-fi Punk Black Metal with devastating attitude, recommended!" - Pest Webzine

Void. Emptiness. Despair. Annihilation. The anonymous yet monstrous gathering of Spaniards known as ALTARAGE suggest all those negative feelings at once as their uncompromised take on black/death takes no prisoners, literally. After an already extremely promising debut EP last year (simply titled ‘MMXV’), their first proper full-lenght ‘Nihl’ seemingly takes those brave enough to plunge into this cesspool of blackness even deeper into hell. They on purpose conduct an unrelenting assault on all your senses at once whereas all the instruments and vocals seem to be all melt together in one gigantic lava stream. Set out to make you physically uncomfortable and with on purpose very breaks, they may evoke at times PORTAL but with a twist on their own, as if their madness and Lovecraftian visions was all theirs.

Released simultaneously on tape by SENTIENT RUINS LABORATORIES/SOL Y NIEVE, lp by IRON BONEHEAD and deluxe digipack by DOOMENTIA, ‘Nihl’ is evil music from beyond and the soundtrack to your nightmares.

10 ultra fast compositions mixing black metal and grindcore! 

„We are against any form of oppression, since we see it as a manifestation of the power of the Demiurge.„

INVICTUS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present ANTIVERSUM’s highly anticipated debut album, Cosmos Comendti. Formed in 2010 by dedicated and experienced musicians in the Swiss metal scene ANTIVERSUM is a nihilistic entity which creates a disturbing and storming amalgamation of black, doom, and death metal, manifesting the end of the universe and the dawn of nothingness in audial waves. They began that journey into the void in the spring of 2015, when INVICTUS released the band’s debut demo, Total Vacuum, to international acclaim. As a title, Total Vacuum indeed served as the foundation on which ANTIVERSUM would create their idiosyncratic vortex of violence.

However, as mighty as Total Vacuum was (and still is), now arrives Cosmos Comendti to give a more vast ‘n’ virulent vision of that vortex. While the four tracks comprising Total Vacuum were towering in their own right, they are dwarfed by the four tracks that comprise the 38-minute Cosmos Comendti. Here, ANTIVERSUM stretch the spaces in between the void further, lurking within with a menace that’s truly unsettling. As such, compositions seemingly surge and then disintegrate at will – and yet, the quintet wield an iron will toward every nuance, every texture, every single detail. It’s a swarming swell of sound, one that could be deemed “cavernous” or “sepulchral” and other buzzwords in popular underground parlance, but the differentiating factor to ANTIVERSUM in general and Cosmos Comendti in particular is that there’s a clearly articulated, deathly focused finesse to everything that happens; nothing is left to chance nor masked in absurd levels of reverb. Further, this swell cannot be conveniently slotted as strictly “death metal” or “black metal” or “doom”: it simply IS.

Hark! For the cosmos-devouring debut album of ANTIVERSUM is at hand, and this anti-world is hereby titled Cosmos Comendti!

Second full length of this dark, atmospheric black metal band from France!

Raw barbaric mesopotamiam black metal. The third full length.

Includes members of MELECHESCH, LEHAVOTH, VISCERA TRAIL!

Debiutancki album nowotarskiego zespołu to 12 utworów surowego i brudnego death metalu z blackmetalowymi wpływami. Coś jak AUTOPSY grające covery VENOM!

"It’s death metal that’s dirty and raw in the vein of Death "Scream Bloody Gore" era or Autopsy, with just a dollop of old school black metal for good measure. Think Autopsy playing Venom covers." - Brutalism

In 2008 decided 2 crazy Metal Freaks to set their burning souls free & founded ARROGANZ. In the dirty depths of Cottbus they undertook started up to exhale their infernal visions. Anno 2017, almost 3 years after their last masterpiece ''Tod & Teufel'', already the 4th ARROGANZ album called ''Primitiv'' will now espy out into the light & the shadows of the world. But it doesn't sound primitive or simple, here waiting 6 songs from K., T. and P in the typical ARROGANZ style. ARROGANZ don´t deviate with the new material even not a millimeter from their chosen way. It would be just to easy to call it blackened Death or death-metallic Black Metal-it's more than this! In the 40 minutes of ''Primitiv'', you can immersing in the soul-life of the trio & let yourself be captivated by their sound! ''Primitiv'' is not for kissass wannebe misanthropes, guys who say they love nature cause they walk the dog once a day - ''Primitiv'' is only for everybody who is into dark, deep & real music! Defying Danger Records will this masterpiece immortalize as a tape version for posterity. As D.D.R.# 023 in our tape-series, we present you the limited to 300 pieces only,hand-numbered tape edition.

The harsh sounds of apocalyptical Thrash are clearly evident in ASSAULTER’s new diabolical offering! ‘Salvation Like Destruction’ is a hideous display of unprocessed Blackened Thrash Metal like no bands have dared to tread on.

Featuring Simon Berserker of ex-Deströyer 666 fame, ASSAULTER is indeed the real definition of pure ravagement at finest!

- 300gsm Foldover Jacket
- 42g Black Vinyl
- Limited to 300 copies

Two tracks of abstract, dissonant and abrupt Black Metal with a paranoic feeling. Not for everyone...

Drugi album black metal/crustpunkowej załogi złozonej z muzyków VASTUM, NECROT, ABSTRACTER, MORTUOUS, BLACK SEPTEMBER, VALE, MORAL VOID! Mroczny, pełen nienawiści nihilistyczny d-beat crust/black inspirowany przez takie zespoły jak DOOM, DISCHARGE, SKITSYSTEM, DEVIATED INSTINCT, DISMEMBER, DARKTHRONE, CRAFT! Materiał nagrany w Earhammer Studio z producentem Gregiem Wilkinsonem (VASTUM, ACEPHALIX, AUTOPSY, UNDERGOING).

Ritualistic, apocalyptic noisemakers ATRIARCH are back with their fourth offering of mind-altering, doom-soaked, deathrock entitled Dead As Truth. Recorded and mixed by Greg Wilkinson at Earhammer Studios (Om, Graves At Sea, Vhol) and featuring artwork by Stevie Floyd (YOB, Dark Castle), Dead As Truth sees ATRIARCH venture deeper into the blackened abyss with haunting incantations, exotic drones, and crushing aural experimentations that boldly embrace death's cold heart. Fragments of post-punk, gothic doom, black metal, sludge, and noise complement the band's desolate universe and further supplement their most immediate and formidable release to date. ATRIARCH prescribe the order that there is but one truth and that is death.

The Axis of Perdition re-issue of their debut opus through now available on vinyl!

Back from the vortex of non-existence, England’s industrial black metal vanguards return to remind us of the damage once done by their haunted first full-length, “The Ichneumon Method (And Less Welcome Techniques)”. After well over a decade since its original release, it turns out to still possess the powers to inject sonic poison into the listener’s system, squeeze one’s stomach with cacophonous riffing, and literally make one feel lost amidst the sickening verses and dirty digital rhythms. In times when the word ‘dissonant’ means anything but ‘dangerous’, the twisted qualities of “The Ichneumon Method” might be a remedy for those who still seek truly extreme experiences in 2017.

The new vinyl mix and mastering done by Haldor Grunberg at Satanic Audio is a guarantee that The Axis of Perdition’s praised debut is once again able to eat you from the inside.

So you thought Warhammer, Apocalyptic Raids or Hellkommander were the only true heirs to Hellhammer and Celtic Frost throne didn’t you?! Surely, formed in 2009, Florence’s Barbarian also namechecked Running Wild or early Bathory as one of t...heir main influences but come on, as soon as the first notes of “Serve In Heaven, Reign In Hell” hit you off and ‘Borys Crossburn’ lets go his first ‘ugh!’ of the day, you know what the score is and as Tom G. Warrior would have say himself, the usurper’s tears surely guide their sword. Just look up at each of those three Italians’ role in the band: ‘necroharmonic guitarmageddon and invocations of baltic storms and polish metal albums’, ‘eruptions of evil from cracked earth’ and ‘fuck off bombardment’. Indeed, only 1984 is real!!!

PURPLE/BLUE WAX

Highly anticipated fourth album of Italy's BARBARIAN! Since signing with HELLS HEADBANGERS in 2016, BARBARIAN have truly hit their stride. First came their third album, Cult of the Empty Grave, which found the power-trio in fiery form, taking all the rudiments of their first two albums and exploding the band out of the underground. Then, a year later, came a self-titled 7", which offered an even rowdier take on their now-trademark blackened traditional metal. It also saw them touring the United States for the first time, spreading their dark gospel to untouched heathen shores.

Now arrives the ever-aptly-titled To No God Shall I Kneel, arguably the grandest distillation of the BARBARIAN aesthetic yet. Still deadly committed to the eternal riddle of steel, BARBARIAN's sound continues to find a unique balance between the ancient and the fresh, but without once ever stinking of falseness or modernity. Timeless to the very end, To No God Shall I Kneel takes that characteristically sweat-drenched symbiosis of early Running Wild and '80s Manowar, grinds it through the gravel of classic Celtic Frost, and finishes it off the panache of likewise-classic Venom. If the critically acclaimed Cult of the Empty Grave eclipsed such a hypothesis, then To No God Shall I Kneel goes further into the realms of ballsy boisterousness, unapologetically OTT and Alpha at every turn, and simply takes no prisoners nor offers any safe spaces. Cult of the Empty Grave spelled it out with the track "Absolute Metal"; here, BARBARIAN tell you in no uncertain terms that you're now dealing with "Obtuse Metal." Wanna pose? Leave the hall!

With cover art courtesy of ACID WITCH's Shagrat, BARBARIAN continue to hail & kill, because To No God Shall I Kneel! 

Please welcome Barbarian Swords, a very dark, personal and disturbing band from Barcelona, Spain. They have a very unique sound: mixing the various subgenres of Black and Doom Metal in addition to a smattering of Punk and Noise. Barbarian Swords was formed in 2011, and quickly released their first demo, ‘Crusaders of the Apocalypse’ in 2012, which has been sold out for a while now. In 2014 they released their debut full-length, ‘Hunting Rats’, which while promoted by Blood Fire Death, received excellent reviews in top journals such as Rock Hard (Germany), Legacy, Metalegion (Portugal) and RockZone (Spain), as well as in a wide variety of specialized websites and fanzines all over the world. Backed by a noisy and sometimes even violent live act, they soon earned the reputation of being one of the most rotten and sickest bands in the Spanish metal scene. This reputation allowed them to be drafted for the Primavera Club Festival, the club-based autumn festival organized by the renowned Primavera Sound, where they shared the stage with Monarch! and Bell Witch.
They have recently finished recording their second album, in which they squirm deeper than ever into a mud of absolute evil and heretic derangement with 71 minutes of pure devilish trance. Their lyrical themes revolve around total war, mass raping, and cruel and vile prosecution of any sign of religion or creed, with the nihilist conviction that the world should go down in flames.
For the recording, mixing and mastering, they have been lucky to count upon an indisputable master such as Javi Félez and his Moontower Studios (Teitanblood, Graveyard, Körgull the Exterminator, Nominon, Ered, Lux Divina, Avulsed, Balmog, Primigenium…), whom already did a flawless job with their debut album. The cover and layout have been designed by César Valladares (Krisiun, Asphyx, Grave Miasma, Under the Church, Balmog, Graveyard…), whose work completely captures the blind hatred that emanates from their sound.
The band have just secured an appearances at the Inner Metal Fest and Catalonia Extreme Winter Festival next January.
Their upcoming full-length ‘Worms' leaves no doubt that there is not a single trace of positive feelings or thoughts in Barbarian Swords.

"Total Nihilism" playing at The Sludgelord: thesludgelord.blogspot.com/2016/10/track-premiere-total-nihilism-by.html

"In short, Barbarian Swords have released a powerful album that oozes evil and true passion for the Extreme Metal, so if you are fans of this genre, give a chance to this album, because it will not disappoint." - 8/10 brokentombmagazine.com

"I truly believe that I had never heard anything so foul a band here. If one day there is a final judgment, or a zombie apocalypse, do not doubt for a moment that the soundtrack for this event will be this or something very similar." - Larry Runner, Diario de un Metalhead

Japanese black/thrash since 1997 featuring ex-member of death metal band Monarchie Infernale, who has released some EPs in mid-90's. Finally they released 1st album in 2013!!! Basically, their music is aggressive  blackened thrash. They don't hesitate to expand their musical horizon by adding complex technical riffs, driving melodic bass lines, and impressive melodic solo, etc... There are many experimentations but their songs keeps aggression and brutality! They use Japanese lyrics which add some exotic atmosphere. Dark and aggressive blackened thrash attack!!!!   

Bestial Death/Black Metal in the old Asian vein. Killer first album, for fans of IMPIETY, SARCOFAGO, IMPALED NAZARENE.

Debut album by Colombian black thrashing nocturnal grave desecrators Belkant! Inframetal is a statement of intent as much as it is an album, meaning that Belkant are here to bring upon Satan's reign on planet earth!!! Act now.

For fans of CHAKAL, PARABELLUM, SODOM!

Three new/exclusive tracks from Chaos Moon and four from Benighted In Sodom. One new / exclusive track from Frostmoon Eclipse as well as the three tracks from the sold out "I Am Providence" EP.

Cascadian Black Metal project Bereft of Light by Romanian musician Daniel Neagoe, known from his work in bands like Shape of Despair, Eye of Solitude, Unfathomable Ruination or Clouds.

Here’s what Daniel had to say on this new project: “Bereft of Light is a symbol for introspection, a chapter in the solitude we all long for, a thousand thoughts that break the barrier of mind and a calm before the storm of feelings.

Hoinar, Romanian word for “wanderer” is a statement of solitude and introspection, a simple but ample opportunity to escape in one self’s own world where anything and everything can shape up and be coloured in all possible tints.

A soul’s journey up the ladder of life, past, present and future. A dive into the unknown of one’s mind and an open door in the mirror of eternity.”

Dutch black metal veterans! CD includes: debut album "The Dark War Has Begun" (1992), "Live In Venray" EP, 1991 rehearsal track & 4 songs are taken from the "Sodomistic Rituals" demo (1992).

A must have for fans of HELLHAMMER, BEHERIT, SARCOFAGO, BLASPHEMY.