KLD002 Blutumhang (NOR) – The Fires of Domination WHITE LP

Black Metal

Funeral Winds formed in 1991 as a trio composed of Hellchrist Xul (guitars/vocals), Gorgoroth (vocals), and Esteban (drums). Along with Bestial Summoning, which was founded approximately one year earlier, Funeral Winds was among the earliest of black metal bands to emerge from the Netherlands, and its activity through to the present day makes it one of the most significant in the country’s history. Given the era of the band’s formative years and its relative proximity to Norway, it is not surprising that Funeral Winds played in a style similar to that of the more well-known Norse bands like Mayhem and Gorgoroth. Prior to the release of its debut album, “Godslayer Xul,” in 1998, Funeral Winds recorded three demos, an EP, and a split CD with Abigail. These early recordings were later reissued by two different labels on two separate compilations entitled “Screaming for Resurrection…” and “The Unheavenly Saviour” in 2004 and 2019, respectively. These collections are hereby resurrected on vinyl by Nuclear War Now!, a few months after first being made available on cassette by the same label. “The Unheavenly Saviour” compiles the first two demos (“Rehearsal 1992” and “La Majeste Infernable”), a live track, and an unreleased studio track from 1995 on a single LP. The “Screaming for Resurrection…” DLP consists of the third demo, “Resurrection…,” the “Thy Eternal Flame” EP, and the tracks from the split release with Abigail.

Majestic Black Metal

Recorded at BlazeBirth Hall.

Tracks 1-4 recorded in 1998, Track 5 recorded in 1996.

Re-mastered for LP.

ORANGE LP, lim. 88

180gr LP, 3.5mm spine printed on 350gsm cardstock jacket with BLACK FLOOD and UV SPOT.
Includes a professionally printed thick INSERT.

Black Metal

Debut album from Poço Negro.

Raw Portuguese Black Metal in the vein of Black Cilice and classic French Black Metal bands, previously released by Perverse Homage on tape. “Existência Agonizante” takes Poço Negro’s sound to a new level, mixing the chaotic and deranged Black Metal of “Demo I” with clean guitar and a surprising melancholic approach.

Limited numbered edition, black vinyl.

Majestic Black Metal

Recorded at BlazeBirth Hall.

Tracks 1-4 recorded in 1998, Track 5 recorded in 1996.
Re-mastered for LP.

180gr LP, 3.5mm spine printed on 350gsm cardstock jacket with BLACK FLOOD and UV SPOT.
Includes a professionally printed thick INSERT.

Black Metal

Building upon that grand fortress is a four-song/22-minute mini-album likewise truly titled: The Oath of the Black Wolf. Here, ORGREL have gone a-hunting, their ’90s black metal classicism stalking and striking with a hunger only hinted at previously. Still, fueled by this fire they may be, the Italians across this mini manage to maximize their epic side, with the predecessor’s flat-yet-full soundfield now becoming slightly more chromatic in the process. Lead lines portend dark truths, ever building in tension and then grandeur, but the record’s swift-yet-satisfying runtime reveals the darkest, most intrinsic truth: black metal doesn’t need to “become” anything when it already IS. Hail The Oath of the Black Wolf!

Black Metal

Parting ways with HETROERTZEN in late 2021, bassist Ham continued down a path of his own, and as the sole composer “Tristan Moreau”, he founded DER TRAUERSCHWAN the same year in the Swedish town Västerås.

The debut album “Sanguinare Vampiris” is the completion of poetry & song that was written during the past two pandemic years.

Inspired by the English poets of the romantic era, lyrical themes explore the naked diary of a vampire, and while musically a bleak conjunction between 90’s black- and doom metal, the harmonic teachings of classical musical theory also have a certain impact.
With influences reaching from Summoning to My Dying Bride, DER TRAUERSCHWAN provides a unique blend of somber doom- and black metal, with vampiric-themed lyrics expressed through haunting songwriting.