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EXCUSE "Prophets From The Occultic Cosmos" CD
Code: SKR160
Price: $10.99
Label: Shadow Kingdom
Nation: Finland
Style: Thrash Metal
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Debut album reissue from the Thrash Metal band from Finland! One of Finland's hottest newcomers, EXCUSE began to make a name for themselves with the second, Goddess Injustice. Release to critical acclaim in 2016, Goddess Injustice largely introduced the fierce foursome to the international metal underground - with a nuclear-powered bang! A finely honed missile of speed metal majesty, EXCUSE's sound on that EP in many ways recalled the classic Canadian gods Sacrifice and Razor, but there were hints of greater glories to come. And at last, they've arrived with the presciently titled Prophets From the Occultic Cosmos. Whereas Goddess Injustice suggested some darkly melodic leanings, EXCUSE's first full-length expands that arsenal considerably. Here, the six songs comprising Prophets From the Occultic Cosmos stretch out to epic lengths - one even hitting double digits, the climactic 10-minute closer "Watchtower of the Trans-Dimensional Pathway" - and take the listener on a wild, winding ride. The evil 'n' sleazy surge on which EXCUSE made their name still exists, but has now been finessed into a wholly more dynamic beast, able to reflect haunting moodiness and spacey horror alike. Suitably, co-guitarist Oskar Lindström's vocals have a conspicuous amount of echo placed upon them, suggesting the inter-dimensional struggles of a narrator literally lost in space. Likewise, fellow guitarist Anselmi Ahopalo's leads take center stage here and weave an almost storytelling aspect, much in the way that classic heavy metal songwriting should, evoking both triumph and tragedy but remaining equally hummable throughout. Completing the totality is album's production, which locates the perfect balance between grit and gleam.
EXPUNGED "Into Never Shall" CD
Code: HELLS284
Price: $10.99
Label: Hells Headbangers
Nation: Canada
Style: Death Metal
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Canadian DM power-trio of W.D. (Dead Soul Alliance, Evolution Fail), K.F.(Töteblut) & Jo "Steel" Capitalicide ( Ice War) on vocals! EXPUNGED is the brainchild of death metal master W.D., who's previously handled the axe in Dead Soul Alliance and Evolution Fail stretching as far back as the mid '90s. While W.D. is the songwriter, K.F. joined on drums (from old-school death metallers Töteblut) while J.S. (AKA Jo "Steel" Capitalicide from Ice War) is on vocal and lyrical duties as well as handling the bass, with the latter showing how versatile his singing abilities can somehow be. Formed in the spring of 2019, this Canadian power-trio proved how deadly their brand of downtuned HM-2-style death metal could be with their self-titled debut EP. EXPUNGED have upped the catchiness here whilst not once softening that molten crush. Similarly, while the grime of Expunged still courses through the album's viscous veins, there's a decidedly darker atmosphere being conjured across Into Never Shall, vividly matched by the gorgeously moody cover artwork courtesy of French fantasy novel painter Didier Normand. Above all, this debut album underlines EXPUNGED's commitment to death metal classicism, reverent but never regressionist, and displays the power-trio's own take on it. Which is all to say nothing of yet another CRUSHING (and totally DIY) production courtesy of Top Das (Fuck The Facts) at his Apartment Two Studio. If the tank crush of Expunged somehow missed you last year, there's simply no way to avoid the onslaught of EXPUNGED's Into Never Shall. Absolutely mandatory for maniacs of Nirvana 2002, Carnage, and especially Bolt Thrower!
FUNERAL FROST "Queen Of Frost" A5 Digi CD
Code: EVIL075
Price: $13.99
Label: Werewolf Records
Nation: Sweden
Style: Black Metal
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A deluxe reissue of FUNERAL FROST’s cult-classic debut album with both Demo’s as bonus tracks. 1990’s Swedish Black Metal!
GRAVAVGRAV "Death Said... Demo 2" MCD
Code: OR173
Price: $6.99
Label: Obliteration Records
Nation: Japan
Style: Old School Death Metal
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Old School Death Metal. Featuring member of CSSO / BUTCHER ABC, FINAL EXIT / MORTIFY and KANDARIVAS. All artwork and logo designed by Swedish Artist, Ragnar Persson.
HAUNT "Mosaic Vision" MCD
Code: SKR174
Price: $9.99
Label: Shadow Kingdom Records
Nation: USA
Style: Heavy Metal
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A special EP from American Heavy Metal act HAUNT, Simply put, HAUNT is the new face of traditional heavy metal & hard rock. Masterful despite their young years as a band, HAUNT began as a solo project of Beastmaker frontman Trevor William Church.
FAUSTIAN PACT "Outojen Tornien Varjoissa" CD
Code: EVIL063
Price: $10.99
Label: Werewolf Records
Nation: Finland
Style: Black Metal
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Since 2007, Finlands FAUSTIAN PACT have been one of Finnish black metal's best-kept secrets: "those who know, know." Their first three demos, one following the other between 2008-2010, poignantly presented a magickal, folkloric aspect long missing from serious black metal. They were a band out of time, seemingly - "born too late," not fit for these increasingly modern times. Now, nearly a decade after FAUSTIAN PACT's last demo, this trio of sorcerers bring the past into the present with their Long-awaited debut album.
HELL-BORN "Cursed Infernal Steel" CD
Code: IMR008
Price: $10.99
Label: Ibex Moon Records
Nation: Poland
Style: Black / Thrash Metal
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Third album from the Polish Black Thrash Metal band! A perfect mixture between the '96 debut's dark, diabolical atmosphere, the uncompromising brutality of "The Call of Megiddo" and the accurate, "sing along" songwriting structres from "Legacy of the Nephilim". All this wrapped with the unique HELL-BORN style - evil, dark, brutal, cross-breaking Hell Fuckin' Metal! The album comes with a great artwork, far and beyond all you've ever seen. Bow down! HELL-BORN strikes again under the Black Flag!!!
HOUR OF 13 "Black Magick Rites" CD
Code: SKR180
Price: $10.99
Label: Shadow Kingdom
Nation: USA
Style: Occult Doom Heavy Metal
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Fourth album of Occult Doom Heavy Metal from the US band. For the better part of two decades, mainman Chad Davis has pursued a unique and intensely personal iteration of traditional doom metal. Along the way and over the course of three albums and numerous EPs, HOUR OF 13 have built a formidable discography that's amassed a fanatic following awaiting each spooky 'n' somber offering Davis and his rotating cast of cohorts creates.
HOUR OF 13 "Salt The Dead: The Rare And Unreleased" Digi 2xCD
Code: SKR125
Price: $15.99
Label: Shadow Kingdom
Nation: USA
Style: Occult Doom Heavy Metal
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Demos & rarities collection from thee immortal HOUR OF 13. Across this massive collection, one will find HOUR OF 13's very first steps into doom metal godhood, alongside alternate recordings of fan favorites. Listening to Salt The Dead: The Rare And Unreleased, it becomes quickly apparent that something truly special was being birthed upon the band's first recorded notes. The first half of this collection - or sides A and B of the double-vinyl edition - comprise demos recorded in 2007. The first three songs were the very first written by HOUR OF 13 in November 2006 and then recorded not long after; the next five songs were recorded nearly a year later. Together, these eight songs would form the foundation of the band's now-classic debut album, released by SHADOW KINGDOM as Hour of 13. Although recognizably HOUR OF 13, these early demo versions of the debut album's songs have slightly different arrangements while others have slightly different vocals, but every single bit of the band's trademark atmosphere is plentiful and poignant. Verily, this is the sound of lingering incense and burning blood. During the second half of Salt The Dead: The Rare And Unreleased, we find a number of alternate recordings, some with special circumstances surrounding them. On side C is an alternate full-band recording of "Call To Satan," recorded at the HOUR OF 13 rehearsal spot, alongside an alternate version of "The Rites of Samhain" with fully correct lyric placement and vocals by mainman Chad Davis. But most poignantly is the song "Upon Black Wings We Die," written and recorded within a matter of a few hours upon hearing the news of the passing of Jason McCash from The Gates Of Slumber. On side D are the complete Candlemass Eve Recordings, the second rehearsal with Beaten Back to Pure's Ben Hogg on vocals: all recorded in a single session on a Zoom H2 microphone in the room, captured here with a newfound energy and stirring vocal performance. Feel the ancient atmosphere of early metal rehearsal rooms of yesteryear here! As founder Chad Davis states in the liner notes to Salt The Dead: The Rare And Unreleased, "This album documents the times and tribulations that had shrouded HOUR OF 13, the early days of rejuvenation along with the dark days of contemplation, and serve as a testament of an entity capable of withstanding any obstacle in its path." So far, the definitive HOUR OF 13 collection - and the cultest. Praise Him and enter the abyss!
HUNTERS MOON "The Great Pandemonium" CD
Code: HELLS309
Price: $10.99
Label: Hells Headbangers
Nation: Australia
Style: Black Metal
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Ancient Bathorian Black Metal Debut by the Australian band with members from Denouncement Pyre and Nocturnal Graves!