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.

Reissue of the debut album of this cult Japanese black/thrash metal band. Includes bonus tracks taken from Demo 1 (1992).

From the land of the rising sun comes one of the best blacking thrash acts to vomit upon posers. Compilation of demos + rare tracks!

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

4-pannel digipack CD limited to 500 copies.
The new mini-album following up on Above Aurora’s debut album, “Onwards Desolation”, released in 2016. Three tracks of hypnotic dark black metal recommended for fans of Mgła and Funeral Mist.

“Path to Ruin” was born towards the end of 2017 in Reykjavik, Iceland at Studio Emissary (known for works by Svartidauði, Slidhr, Myrkr among others). Mixing and mastering was completed by Icelandic black metal guru Stephen Lockhart. 

Vocalist and guitarist, V, comments: “Path to Ruin” is continuing the pessimistic vision of the previous album. We are treading the previously chosen path of dissonance, mid and slow tempos, along with the moderately selected sounds in a slightly different form.”

1. Delusional Disorder
2. Abyssal Hades
3. Path to Ruin

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.

Exclusive digipack CD.

Greek occult black metallers with ritual & 70's rock influences, ACHERONTAS, return with their new studio album titled "Faustian Ethos". The follow-up to "Amarta अमर्त" (2017) was recorded in three different studios in Greece, UK and Germany between 2016 and 2017 with mixing and mastering done at Pentagram Studio by George Emmanuel (Rotting Christ, Lucifers Child). The cover artwork was created by George Zafiriadis (www.occulticons.com) and the "Faustian Ethos" sigil was illustrated by VisionBlack.

The band ACHERONTAS stands at the forefront of the new wave of Greek black / occult metal scene, with strong dedication to spirituality, mysticism and magic, in both sound and image. As such, it is considered by its members as an otherworldly project; a medium, where Hellenic metal meets eastern philosophy and retro rock.

Tracklist:
1. Τhe Fall of the First Pillar
2. Sorcery and the Apeiron
3. Aeonic Alchemy (Act i)
4. Faustian Ethos
5. The Old Tree and the Wise Man
6. The Alchemists of the Radiant Sepulchre (Act ii)
7. Decline of the West (O  Ιερεας και ο Ταφος)
8. Vita Nuova

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

Spanish Black Metal band Ancient Emblem is striking in both its familiarity and it's directness. Sticking to old school, true Norwegian style black metal, Ancient Emblem do not deviate at all from the path laid out by those bands, but they pull it off based on the energy put forth in the music. It is produced and played expertly, proving that originality is not necessary to make a good record. The album also stands out in the lyrical department. I think the liner notes say it best. "4 lovers of gloomy and raw sounds which support veg(etari)an way of life and deeply hate attitudes based on discrimination and domination such as religion, homophobia, sexism, speciesism, racism, fascism, or Nazism." This is a refreshing and hopeful worldview, especially since the band comes from Spain, a country consistently threatened by right wing groups, and the Black Metal scene, which includes some less than savory politics. Topics covered include environmentalism (Crow will tell, Old Tree), organized religion (Stolen Symbols, My Unique Law), and individualism (Over my Equals, Stone Circle) This album is for devotees or raw, old school black metal. The music rarely strays away from that, only occasionally slowing to a more ambient pace. This is an album for the kvlt at heart. Fans of atmospheric black metal need not apply. 

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!

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

"Venomous Frost" is a perfect example of what metal music was about in 80's/early 90's-The combining of black and thrash metal into a perfect mixture of rage and melody! Venemous Frost is a must-have for those who praise early Dissection, Bathory, Hellhammer, Protector and Destroyer666 albums. Don't be fooled by the fact they are youngsters, as the sounds they have in their souls are able to summon the dead from the graves.

Cover drawing by Robert A. von Ritter Illustrations

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

Posthumous release from this hellish, trend-crushing australian Black/Thrash Metal force featuring all their demos, EP's and official live tape with killer cover versions of cult acts such as TYRUS, ARMOURED ANGEL, MOTORHEAD, W.A.R. and UNPURE!. For fans of VENOM, HELLHAMMER, SODOM, HOBBS’ ANGEL OF DEATH, ORDER FROM CHAOS, CELTIC FROST...

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

Truly awesome 6th album of this legendary and pioneer US Death/Black Metal band. 10 tracks of a brutal, fast and technical yet melodic Death Metal with the right touch of Black Metal. For lovers of bands like early HATE ETERNAL, ANGEL CORPSE, IMMORTAL, CARCASS, NILE, EMPEROR.

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.

True Black Metal from Spain. Third full lenght album recorded at Moontower Studios in Barcelona by Javier Félez. Mastered by Tore Stjerna at Necromorbus Studios in Sweden.

Spain's BALMOG have been creating horrifying Black Metal since 2003, and this is their third album. You´ll get complex but “Vacvvm” is what you would want to hear from a black metal album. It’s immersed in darkness, drenched in evil, and walks in the shadows until it can approach you and stray you from the path of good.

For the fans of early WATAIN, DEATHSPELL OMEGA and the likes…

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!!!

Highly anticipated third album of Italy's BARBARIAN, Cult of the Empty Grave. Since 2009, the power-trio have been killing it in the metal underground, culminating in 2014's classic Faith Extinguisher on the highly respected Doomentia label. Now, with the backing of longtime fans HELLS HEADBANGERS, the true BARBARIAN are poised to hail and kill, far and wide, wherever the mighty hooves of the Apocalypse take them, and Cult of the Empty Grave shall be the soundtrack to that domination. The BARBARIAN sound is one that's both ancient and fresh, and has been firmly in place since the beginning. Imagine a sweat-drenched symbiosis of early Running Wild and '80s Manowar with the panache of classic Venom: Cult of the Empty Grave eclipses such a hypothesis, but is rendered with the now-trademark BARBARIAN touch, one that's boisterous and bloodlusting and unapologetically OTT. In the wise words of one Cult of the Empty Grave track, it's verily "Absolute Metal." Total fun done with total seriousness and with total intolerance for posers (leave the hall!), BARBARIAN hail the banner of heavy metal and beckon you to enter the Cult of the Empty Grave!

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!!!!   

Second full length of old school black/thrash/speed metal band from Russia. For fans of VENOM and BATHORY!

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.”