Black Metal / Dungeon Synth

Depressive Silence was founded by RAL & B.S. from Mightiest in 1994. The band is one of the cult acts and forerunners of the Dungeon Synth genre alongside Mortiis and Jim Kirkwood.

Back then, the genre wasn’t even called Dungeon Synth yet, and only later got that monicker, probably named after Mortiis’ label Dark Dungeon Music. At first it was just Dark Ambient. Nonetheless it was already something special in that it combined elements from Black Metal (more visually and thematically rather than musically) and fantasy into a new style that appealed to some Black Metal fans as well as those who preferred keyboard music and role playing games. Once the name Dungeon Synth had been established the appeal to (Black) Metal fans became much greater and the genre really took off, with Depressive Silence as one of the most beloved and well known bands of this rapidly growing genre.

Black Metal

Tracks 1-11 recorded live on 15/12/2012 in Night and Fog over Finlandia, Helsinki.

Tracks 12-13 recorded live on 30/01/2005 in “Rock for Fatherland” festival, Athens.

Black Metal

Tracks 1-11 recorded live on 15/12/2012 in Night and Fog over Finlandia, Helsinki.

Tracks 12-13 recorded live on 30/01/2005 in “Rock for Fatherland” festival, Athens.

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.

Synth Pop / Industrial

First released in 2000 comes now re-mastered and with new coverartwork.

Vinyl comes in black vinyl and LE250 mint vinyl with printed innersleeve and the CD in catchy foldout cover and booklet.

Derniere Volonte is an artist that has been evolving over the years, starting from 1998 with the thematic limited cassette release “Obeir et mourir” which was an historical snapshot of a particular place in time.

However, in the millennium the level of standards were raised with their so called debut album “Le Feu Sacre”, which brought us a beating, martial rhythms and gloomy keyboard patterns, combined with orchestral samples, and of course Geoffrey D.’s characteristic voice and French vocals. The environment that formed without relying on the tricks of the trade is what really piqued interest. The beauty of this particular release lay in its simplicity and originality.
Very outstanding that time and 21 years later still a masterpiece.

Black Metal

DESTROYER 666 should need no introduction. But back in 1997, the Australians were a relatively new entity, forming from the ashes of Bestial Warlust and introducing themselves to the metal underground with the Violence is the Prince of This World EP in ’95. Two years later, DESTROYER 666 would throw down the gauntlet to the international metal scene with soon-to-be-classic debut album Unchain the Wolves. Devastating yet dynamic to the bitter, bloody end, Unchain the Wolves comprises 50 minutes of black metal magick ‘n’ might that quickly became the band’s ever-unique trademark: epic and anthemic songwriting, gritty yet considered execution, and each song as integral as the last. Just try not headbanging to stone-cold classics like “Australian and Anti-Christ” and “Satan’s Hammer”; if you don’t, then you must be dead.