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Armagedda (SWE) – Only True Believers LP €26.88
Black Metal
Pillars of the early 2000s black metal underground, Sweden’s ARMAGEDDA exuded an authentically ancient air despite their youthful years. The black metal underground back then was a purer, more traditionalist iteration of what it is today, and within that staunchly ideological landscape did ARMAGEDDA prove their fiery intent with their 2001 debut album, The Final War Approaching, and more so with its follow-up in 2003, Only True Believers – the title itself a statement of intent, naturally. Alas, as many passionate young men are wont to do, the duo of A. and Graav became restless with the shackles of supposedly “true” black metal and began plotting their next move, one that would drive deeper into the true heart of “black metal” whilst exhibiting the unorthodoxy of approach that once endeared the genre to sonic revolutionaries. And while that would manifest in the band’s third and final album, the shockingly mature Ond Spiritism, it is with Only True Believers where ARMAGEDDA found the perfect synthesis of ideology and imagination.
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Bergraven (SWE) – Det Framlidna Minnet LP €24.88
Black Metal
Sweden’s Bergraven are never shy of venturing to the very edge of black metal terrain and staring into the maddening abyss. In the nine years since Till Makabert Väsen all three members have been busy with their exceptional Stilla project, which has served to take the edge off the longing for new material. Bergraven are, however, an altogether more complex, ethereal beast and allows the trio to indulge their more experimental proclivities. Det framlidna minnet deals with memories – their fluid nature and how the healthy human spirit builds a wall around itself with carefully adjusted memories and yet sometimes the system corrupts and memories become ghosts that haunt their hosts with regret and despair. Present are the band’s trademark unusual song structures and jazz-inspired passages, which add a further sprinkling of chaos and unease to the mix. Over the course of eight intoxicating pieces, injected with the most intelligent, nuanced songwriting prowess to date, Bergraven remind us that expectations rarely match up with reality and what becomes of us in this mortal coil.
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Bhleg (SWE) – Äril LP €26.88
Black Metal
When the spirit of summer, the rays of the sun goes out, another fire is lit. A fire that burns nature into autumn colors, where the landscape turns into a reflection of its own flames. When the fire becomes ash, life slowly but surely falls into hibernation to broaden the path for Ragnarök and the winter of life.
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Bhleg (SWE) – Ödhin LP €26.88
Black Metal
With six epic tracks of pure channeling of forceful darkness, despair and mystery, “Ödhin” showcases both vicious outbursts of savagery, reflective moments of melancholy, and a primal strength with roots in all three worlds. With hypnotic waves of somber pathos, like the heavens coming apart and the very earth heaving and bursting aflame, BHLEG’s wintry spells mesmerize us with a message as ancient as time – in the end, our fate shall come for us all.
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Dråpsnatt (SWE) – I Denna Skog LP €24.88
Black Metal
Expertly arranged keyboards enhance the atmosphere with both textural ambience as well as majestic melodies and riffs, and clean guitars and vocals bring a harmonic yet melancholic counterpart to the abrasive blasts and screams. Rocking riffs harken back to the primitive sounds of the 80’s, while the more symphonic and melodious parts rival the work the likes of BORKNAGAR, ARCTURUS and TARTAROS made in the 90’s.
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Grift (SWE) – Arvet WHITE LP €26.88
Black Metal
“Arvet” (“The Heritage”) continues where “Syner” left off. Once again, Erik has struggled with the endless big questions that sensitive people have always struggled with and have tried to express. From the small and seemingly insignificant in every human being, to something that always pulsates and becomes meaningful in some way; beyond the meadows and the forests.
The heritage we carry within us is something we never can escape from. An inheritance is something that characterizes every individual in often paradoxical ways. It may be a social heritage, a biological heritage, a religious heritage, etc. With this album Grift wants to illuminate the always ongoing journey from the small safe place in each mans heart to the great unforeseen life. We often think that everything is going to shape from scratch to something unique. But sooner or later we understand our vulnerabilities and falls back to what we have inherited since we were innocent children.
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Grift (SWE) – Budet LP €26.88
Black Metal
The passion and despair found herein claw at your soul and heartstrings, leaving you breathless yet rejuvenated by the sheer force of the emotional outburst carried out by the six diverse songs. With a foundation in both desolate folk and melancholic harsh metal, “Budet” employs traditional instruments such as the lonely chords of a reed organ and exquisite violins, the latter courtesy of Georg Börner (ColdWorld, Sangre de Muerdago.) Erik Gärdefors’s vehement, bordering on desperate, vocal outbursts convey the introspective and thoughtful lyrics in a most gripping manner, and the thick rural atmosphere is at the same time both nostalgic, anguish-filled and redeeming.
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Grift (SWE) – Fyra Elegier LP €26.88
Black Metal
Built upon a concept stained with inspiration drawn from great elder poets like Johannes Edfelt, Pär Lagerkvist & Dan Andersson among others GRIFT delivers rugged, hackneyed & melancholic metal in a way most pleasant.
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Örnatorpet (SWE) – Bergtagen GREEN LP €30.88
Dungeon Synth
“Bergtagen” is a gloomy and mystical journey into the darkened shrine of dungeon synth. It is deeply inspired by the folklore of ancient Sweden and the dramatic nature that has left and continues to leave its time-worn scars on the landscape of the country and, in the harsher fringes, the faces of its people. The album pays homage to the rusty tones of autumn and succeeds in replicating that magical feeling of a lone walk through the woods as the russet hued leaves crunch underfoot. Take time out to free yourself from the many heavy chains that modern society burdens you with to immerse yourself in the solemn, Swedish beauty of Örnatorpet. To quote a certain famous show, ‘winter is coming.’
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Örnatorpet (SWE) – Evigt främmande, evigt fjärran DIGI-CD €17.88
Black Metal
Örnatorpet is Sweden’s leading dungeon synth project. They have been described as modern music without the trappings of modernity. Channelling nostalgia and yearning, Örnatorpet invoke the spirits both of timeless genre classics like Fata Morgana, Mortiis, and Wongraven and recent greats such as Erang, Old Sorcery, and Vindkaldr. Örnatorpets highly anticipated seventh album, “Evigt främmande, evigt fjärran”, comes with ominous titles and foreboding tones: the soundtrack of a stellar apocalypse.
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Örnatorpet (SWE) – Evigt främmande, evigt fjärran PURPLE LP €34.88
Black Metal
Örnatorpet is Sweden’s leading dungeon synth project. They have been described as modern music without the trappings of modernity. Channelling nostalgia and yearning, Örnatorpet invoke the spirits both of timeless genre classics like Fata Morgana, Mortiis, and Wongraven and recent greats such as Erang, Old Sorcery, and Vindkaldr. Örnatorpets highly anticipated seventh album, “Evigt främmande, evigt fjärran”, comes with ominous titles and foreboding tones: the soundtrack of a stellar apocalypse.
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Örnatorpet (SWE) – Hymner Från Snökulla BLUE LP €32.88
Dungeon Synth
Despite its foundation of brisk and wistful minimalism, the intricate melodies and cold timbre conjure up more of the soothing majesty of a clear-blue December sky than the life-depriving howls from a blizzard. “Hymner Från Snökulla” is the tranquil view seen from a desolate mountain peak into the very heart of winter.
LP edition on frost-covered coloured vinyl incl. A2 poster. Limited to 300 pcs.
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Örnatorpet (SWE) – Hymner Från Snökulla DIGI-CD €16.88
Dungeon Synth
It takes only a brief immersion in the heady synth-led beauty carved out by Örnatorpet on Hymner Från Snökulla to reveal the reason why such dungeon synth epics are so perfect for the onset of winter. As the dark nights draw ever nearer and the cold winds blow their mournful eyries one’s life becomes more introspective. Longer are those spells curled up, perhaps by the fire, lost in a literary world as you read into the night; longer can the mind be free to wander and stronger is the urge to cross over to fantastical worlds carved in sonic beauty by minds like the Swede of Örnatorpet.
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Örnatorpet (SWE) – Vid Himinsenda DIGI-CD €17.88
Dungeon Synth
ÖRNATORPET’s new album ”Vid Himinsenda” works a majestic, mesmerizing spell. Truly, this is a portal to a forgotten realm, an arcane age whisked into the present if only to be witnessed within the mind’s eye. Don’t blink and miss it…
Paradoxically, for music so glacial, ÖRNATORPET works at a feverish pace, and ”Vid Himinsenda” is the artists second album this year. As ever, the magick ‘n’ mysticism of the mid ’90s is invoked once again, recalling long-lost sounds.
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Panphage (SWE) – Drengskapr CD €16.88
Black Metal
CD release of PANPHAGE’s highly acclaimed full-lenght.
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Panphage (SWE) – Drengskapr LP €26.88
Black Metal
Vinyl release of PANPHAGE’s highly acclaimed full-lenght.
First time on Vinyl. Comes on classic black vinyl with sleeve on reverse board.
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Panphage (SWE) – Storm CD €16.88
Black Metal
CD release of PANPHAGE’s highly acclaimed debut album “Storm”.
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Panphage (SWE) – Storm LP €26.88
Black Metal
Vinyl release of PANPHAGE’s highly acclaimed debut album “Storm”.
First time on Vinyl. Comes on classic black vinyl with sleeve on reverse board.
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Varde (NOR) – Fedraminne DLP €32.88
Black Metal
On of the most interesting album of the last years. For fans of early Ulver.
Quality gatefold sleeve housed in a plastic outer bag.
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