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Vargrav (FIN) – The Nighthold DIGI-CD €16.88
Black Metal
From the dawn of the classic debut album, Netherstorm, in 2018, Finland’s VARGRAV have almost single-handedly reinvigorated the oft-maligned symphonic black metal subgenre. Forged in fires from the ancients – founder V-Khaoz’s credentials are vast and stretch back decades – and stoking the embers last left by Obtained Enslavement and Norway’s Covenant and Odium, VARGRAV’s two albums to date stand as proud pillars of shimmering, classics-based obsidian.
As momentous as those two full-lengths have been, VARGRAV arguably eclipse both with their third album, The Nighthold. With a lineup that now includes the notorious Graf Werwolf von Armageddon on vocals and Moonsorrow members Trollhorn of the Black Harvest on guitars/bass and Baron M. Tarwonen on drums, VARGRAV’s swirling, cosmic surge has never been more potent; their attack is both sharper and dreamier, crystal-clear and opaque simultaneously. That added clarity creates more immediacy as The Nighthold kicks in, for the aggression of old is kicked into overdrive here and the synths take on a truly orchestral aspect. It’s not for nothing that the album is a full hour in length: everything here sounds (and feels) HUGE, one massive velvety purple landscape of stained-glass visions as far as the third eye can see. And all 12 tracks are threaded together in a plausibly cinematic manner; while each is mighty in its own respective right, VARGRAV sequence every song with artistic flair and high drama, concluding the immersive experience with a daresay-soulful guitar solo during the coda of “Creator of the True Realm” that then segues into the nearly-10-minute big-screen instrumental “Ghostlands.” What film or filmic realm one enters into (or leaves) is entirely up to the listener…The Nighthold is boundless!
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Venusberg Cardinal (USA) – Atlas of Dungeons CD €15.88
Black Metal
Venusberg Cardinal’s Atlas of Dungeons was recorded winter 2010—the same sessions as Departure Chandelier’s Antichrist Rise to Power and was intended as a brother project exploring medieval and ancient tortures depicted across such paintings as The Garden of Earthly Delights and the doom of pre-Raphaelite Greek mythology in what the band describes as “antique black metal.” Originally set for release as a cassette album, this has been pulled from the archives of Occult Antiquities and presented to judged souls now under the banner of NWN! Productions. Musically in line with French black metal influences, Atlas of Dungeons pays special tribute and honors the perverse satanic cruelty, in particular of Cantus Bestiae. Despite using the same 4-track, drums, and guitars as Departure Chandelier in the now fabled Prisoner’s Chant studio, listeners will find a pure minimalist black metal atmosphere devoid of synth with long, hypnotic instrumental passages—until the alarming and eerie outro that features the previously unknown electronic/ambient peripheral of Departure Chandelier…Coronation Prédateur. Welcome, sinners, to the world of Occult Antiquities and antique black metal!
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Vèrmyapre Kommando (FRA) – Crache-La-Mört CD €16.88
Black Metal
Black Legions Metal – side project of Wlad from VLAD TEPES.
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Vèrmyapre Kommando (FRA) – Vèrmyapre Kommando CD €16.88
Black Metal
Black Legions Metal – side project of Wlad from VLAD TEPES.
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Vetala (POR) – Retarded Necro Demential Hole CD €14.88
Black Metal
If the raw Portuguese black metal scene has (rightfully) reaped renown or at least reverential infamy, then VETALA’s third full-length strike shall be the sonic vomit to ruin everyone’s day. For over a decade now, exploring the most depraved and transgressive corners of what BLACK METAL can be has marked this duo as nigh-on untouchable. Unrepentantly noisy, accidentally avant-garde, furiously FUCK OFF: although continuing the dark, disgusting work laid down by Black Circle forerunners Irae and Mons Veneris, VETALA have become an idiom unto themselves. And now, with the aptly titled Retarded Necro Demential Hole do the duo abase themselves and bow down before the all-consuming powers of ritual retardation; these four, nameless songs have no reason to exist, if only to rain feces on good taste and any and all conceptions of “black metal.” In fact, it’s so beyond primitive and artlessly improvisational, so nightmarishly unhinged, one could qualify it as PRE-black metal.
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Vetala (POR) – Satanic Morbid Metal CD €14.88
Black Metal
Originally released back in 2010, when the raw Portuguese black metal scene was a heavily guarded secret only discovered by the most depraved, Satanic Morbid Metal indeed accomplished its title and then some: although continuing the dark, disgusting work laid down by Black Circle forerunners Irae and Mons Veneris, VETALA here brazenly unveiled an exquisitely twisted vision of black metal, clanging and crazed and almost accidentally avant-garde yet with a truly unique and malformed melodicism that nevertheless had those who had the good fortune to hear it questioning the band’s very sanity.
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Vetala (POR) / Mons Veneris (POR) – The Nines Of Satanantichrist CD €15.88
Black Metal
Rare split of the two Portuguese Raw Black Metal masters.
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Véu Negro (POR) – Antigos Rituais de Sangue CD Original price was: €14.88.€12.65Current price is: €12.65.
Black Metal
Mystical and arcane, yet unrelenting and unmerciful Black Metal from the depths of the Portuguese underground.
Jewel Case CD version, limited to 100.In stock
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Vindalf (CL) – Undying Order Of The Black Flames CD €15.88
Black Metal
“Undying Order Of The Black Flames” emerges from the ashes of eternal hatred in the cold winter. Honoring the immortal ancient medieval anti-ecclesiastical orders and the sacrilegial heretical currents of ancient times.
A resistance to orthodoxy, a rejection of the light and beliefs of the dead god and his rotten cross.
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Vinterkrig (SWE) – Härskare Över Stjärnorna Och Mina Drömmar DIGI-CD €16.88
Black Metal
First official Cd release for this absolute masterpiece of Swedish Melodic Black Metal.
“Härskare Över Stjärnorna Och Mina Drömmar”, the only work in Vinterkrig’s discography, was recorded at Peter Tägtgren’s The Abyss Studio and mixed by Mikael Hedlund back in 1997.
Catchy melodies and gloomy atmospheres carved in ice to keep alive the pure essence of the 90s. Featuring Martin Lopez on drums and Martin Mendenz on guitars (Opeth).
Available in limited edition Digipak Cd of 300 hand-numbered copies.
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Vintersorg (SWE) – Ödemarkens Son DIGI-CD €15.88
Black Metal
Vintersorg’s classic second album remastered! One of the best Folk Metal ever made!
“Ödemarkens Son” (translates as “Son of the Wilderness”), the second full length from the Swedish band Vintersorg is unique Black/Folk Metal release. Generally speaking, this is not the ‘happy dancing’ Folk Metal like Korpiklaani, Finntroll or the likes, this is mournful. blackened Folk Metal, with very poetic and sorrowful lyrics, more on the side of old Ulver, but still is something very different from any released before.
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Vintersorg (SWE) – Till Fjalls DIGI-CD €15.88
Black Metal
Vintersorg’s classic album remastered! A real gem of epic Swedish Viking Metal!
As someone who listens to Metal albums on a daily basis, as well as being a Metal fan for well over 40 years, there are many great Metal albums out there. But sometimes an album comes along that changes how we look at Metal. We are not sure if that was Andreas “Vintersorg” Hedlund‘s intention when he wrote his debut full length, “Till Fjälls”, but that is exactly what this album did. His intention was to create a sound that was Black Metal based but also focusing more on clean vocals and adding more traditional Swedish folk elements to the that base. He inadvertently patented a new sound and sub-genre.
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Vintersorg (SWE) – Vattenkrafternas Spel DIGI-CD €15.88
Black Metal
Vintersorg returns with their long-awaited new album “Vattenkrafternas Spel”!
Merging old and new with a captivating mix of athmospheric Metal and Folk!
Sweden’s elemental force Vintersorg returns with their new album “Vattenkrafternas Spel”! “Vattenkrafternas Spel” merging old and new with a captivating mix of atmospheric Black Metal and Folk! It doesn’t just retrace old steps… it digs deeper! This is not the “let’s drink ale in the woods” version of Folk Metal,Vintersorg deals in frostbitten grandeur and soaring melancholy.In stock
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Virulent Specter (USA) – The Black Temple of Omniscent Manipulation DIGI-CD €13.88
Black Metal
The album keeps the dirt of the demos and glorifies it adding even more dementia. Beware!
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Visceral Evisceration (AUT) – Incessant Desire For Palatable Flesh DIGI-CD €15.88
Death / Doom Metal
This album was released in 1994 and has become a rarity since then.
Although Visceral Evisceration probably didn’t have access to the same medical pathology textbooks Carcass did, the lyrical spirit is the same.
Primarily interested in dismemberment, cannibalism and more dismemberment, they can barely be distinguished from Regurgitate, Vomitory or the aforementioned Carcass in their early, glory days.
If one only reads the lyric sheet and not listens to the music, that is.
This is one of the oddest, most compelling and most hauntingly beautiful Metal recordings one will ever encounter.Simply put, this is exquisite Doom Metal in the finest musical tradition of Paradise Lost, Winter and My Dying Bride.
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Vlad Tepes (FRA) – Black Legions Metal DIGI-CD €14.88
Black Metal
Vlad Tepes depicts the epitome of Raw Black Metal and the legend of the Black Legions.
This demo was previously released officially on tape by Black Gangrene back in 2016 and now these special editions on vinyl and cd bring the ultimate consecration to a brilliant tribute to the most haunting manifestation of Black Metal.
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Vlad Tepes (FRA) – Morte Lune CD €15.88
Black Metal
Originally self-released in 1996 as a demo cassette.
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Vlad Tepes (FRA) – The Return Of The Unweeping CD €16.88
Black Metal
The Return Of The Unweeping
Originally released sept. 1994 as a trial for our “new” 4 tx recorder come from Meyhna’chThe Return Of The Unweeping II
Originally released oct. 1995 as an experimentation using the original RotU drums tracks.In stock
