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.

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The 1995 demo available for the first time on CD.

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The lyrics for track 2 are inspired by “Heinrich Himmler´s SS ring award”.

Track 5 was originally performed by Graveland.

Track 10 was originally performed by Absurd (3) with german lyrics.

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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.

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With Kristallnacht, Seigneur Voland, Funeral, Finis Gloria Dei, Osculum Infame members.

Reissue remastered of the only album with 4 Rehearsal bonus tracks.

Digipack CD with 8 pages booklet.

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Re-release of the 1995 cult debut album. Essential Australian Black Metal savagery!

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New full-length available on CD.

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The cult 1996 debut of symphonic black metal from Katatonia’s Anders ‘Blackheim’ Nyström.

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The debut album from Sweden’s black metal/industrial band DIABOLICUM from 1999 finally for the first time ever on limited CD.

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The classic album from 1995 available again on CD.

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Brand new limited reedition of Dødsfall’s third full-length, originally released in 2013 ! with “Djevelens Evangelie”, Dødsfall leaves us a brilliant testimony of what black metal should remain: fast, cold, raw and hard-hitting. a must-have classic for all fans of the Norwegian scene from the 90s.8

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“När Mörkret Är På Väg” (“When Darkness Is On Its Way”) contains 7 new tracks of pure hate and anger in its best form: a successful combination of past and present with new elements and different sources of inspiration, sounding epic, majestic and furious with a melodic touch inspired from the cold lands of the north. A must have !