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Third opus in the Sanctuaire’s “Echos” ambient series.

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The runes have spoken…
Sanctuaire presents four hymns of pagan black metal praising ancient times when glory stood alongside tradition. Sanctuaire offers its strongest and most powerful effort to date, incorporating war-like kettledrums and chorus chanting featuring other artisans of the Metal Noire québecois circle. An epic journey to a distant time when our ancestors once struggled and fought for their lives. Mixed by Sorcier des Glaces, this release has a simple cardboard booklet and a cover artwork drawn by the talented David Thiérrée. Sanctuaire “Le sang sur l’acier” MCD is produced by Les Productions Hérétiques and Tour de Garde.

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The Sanctuary has opened its doors again and this time it is to reveal a new Métal Noir offering. Spiritual successor to the ‘Helserkr’ demo, ‘Spectre’ delivers raw yet melodic black metal. Its ‘garage’ production suits the melodies perfectly, oscillating between epicness, hatred and melancholy. Composed and meticulously assembled during the last 4 years, ‘Spectre de Mondes passés’ is an ode to nature, ancient spirits and the purest black metal tradition.

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Recorded in the mildewed dungeon of Boneyard under the first waning moon of the year 2014.

Featuing members of HORNA & BEHEXEN, this is the Finnish BM supergroup.

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Grim Nihlistic Black Metal; This is a cold as death, Black Metal masterpiece.

Featuing members of HORNA & BEHEXEN, this is the Finnish BM supergroup.

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Track 1 taken from split 7″ EP with Merrimack on Moribund Cult
Track 2 taken from compilation CD “Jatkosota” on Woodcut Records
Track 3 taken from compilation tape “..and Jesus Wept” on Black Arts Productions
Track 4 taken from split 7″ EP with Temple Of Baal on Grievantee Productions
Track 5 is a bonus track from “Satanic Black Devotion” LP on World Terror Committee
Track 6 taken from compilation LP “Tormenting Legends” on Blut & Eisen Productions
Track 7 taken from compilation LP “Finnish-German Alliance” on World Terror Committee
Track 8 is a bonus track from “Disciple Of The Heinous Path” LP on World Terror Committee
Track 9 taken from split 7″ EP with Bahimiron on Obscure Abhorrence Productions
Track 10 taken from split 7″ EP with Drowning The Light on Moribund Cult
Tracks 11 & 12 taken from the “Dark Embrace” 7″ EP on Moribund Cult
Tracks 13 & 14 taken from the “Lair of Necromancy” 7″ EP on Hospital Records

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And so the battle continues with Aamongandr, SATANIC WARMASTER’s first studio full-length since 2014’s acclaimed Fimbulwinter. Indeed, where that album evinced a diversity of songcraft and, more so, a concertedly polished aspect that majestically made that obsidian gleam, Aamongandr explores that duality with equally compelling results. In fact, with the album wasting no time in kicking into high gear, SATANIC WARMASTER sounds more urgent than ever – and yet, here is where the band’s epic side is also revealed in full. Cryogenic and caressing is its melodicism, in the glare of burning churches, and deftly dusted with subtle synths that heighten the mysticism at the heart of the SW sound, Aamongandr’s six songs charge forth with the grim grandiosity of mighty steeds; not for nothing is one of the album’s highlights titled “Duke’s Ride (Ride of the Spectral Hooves).” All told, this sixth long-form statement of intent is immediately recognizable as SATANIC WARMASTER but irrevocably proves that its creator’s imagination continues to flow as infinitely as the Atlantean depths.

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SATANIC WARMASTER needs no introduction nor explanation, and nor should the modern classic that is Carelian Satanist Madness. Originally released in the dark days of 2005, this album emerged during the peak of Finland’s black metal underground, and mainman Werwolf – here recording everything, save session drums – led the way for all others well into the next decade. All the triumph and tragedy, mysticism and madness, literally EVERYTHING that is sacred and pure in authentic and dedicated BLACK METAL is here distilled to its proudest and most poignant essence. To deny this is to deny black metal itself.

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3 tracks CD single for total running time of about 15min taken from the upcoming Satanic Warmaster album!

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For the past 24 years, SATANIC WARMASTER has remained a highly revered name in the black metal underground: seemingly doing no wrong with converts, but forever riling detractors. Helmed by the tyrant Werwolf – whose involved in the black metal scene stretches back 20-some years, as the original vocalist of Horna – SATANIC WARMASTER have released classic album after classic album, from early essentials like Strength and Honour and Opferblut to relatively more recent monuments like Carelian Satanist Madness and Nachzehrer, and always at their own pace.

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Originally released in 2003, Opferblut consolidated the massive momentum garnered by SATANIC WARMASTER’s influential debut album, 2001’s Strength & Honour, and truly cemented Finnish black metal as a reigning force in the underground for the still-new millennium. Cold and caustic but suffused with a burning passion that has marked the band from the beginning, Opferblut is pure, traditional BLACK METAL done the ancient way – in the glare of burning churches, when madness & mysticism still cloaked the scene.

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2022 repress on digipack CD, includes the Blutrache demo ‘Marsch zu neuen Zeitaltern’.

Recorded in the hateful winter of 2000-2001 anno satanas.