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When Satyricon released their third album in 1996, their status as one of the most significant and creatively vital bands in Norwegian black metal was already beyond dispute, but Nemesis Divina was no ordinary record or just another step along the road to infamy. From its uniquely vibrant and impactful artwork, which broke every supposed rule in the black metal handbook with its vivid colours and refined aesthetic core, to the supremely confident and idiosyncratic songs and individual performances that heralded a newfound sophistication and a freshly incisive vision, Nemesis Divina almost single-handedly took black metal from its voluntarily shadowy and obscure origins into the glaring spotlight of the international metal scene. It showcased a band that finally had the skill and the musical intuition to back up the undeniable potency of their artistic vision. Sonically devastating and compositionally meticulous, songs like ‘Mother North‘ and ‘The Dawn Of A New Age‘ redefined what black metal was capable of, while proudly retaining the genre’s ageless essence and aesthetic values.

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With Frost’s drumming a key component from the start, the Satyricon unveiled on The Shadowthrone is far closer to the unstoppable, obsidian juggernaut we know and hail today than anything heard on the seminal but occasionally guileless Dark Medieval Times. Informed by the tonality and textures of Norwegian folk music tradition but fuelled by Satyr’s unique vision of black metal, the propulsive, muscular forward grind of grandiose sprawls like In The Mist By The Hills threw down a formidable template, upon which Satyricon have continued to build for more than a quarter of a century.

Gatefold cover, printed inner sleeves

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A milestone of the German Black Metal underground.

Secrets Of The Moon’s debut album “Stronghold Of The Inviolables” from 2001 is considered a milestone of German Black Metal. This new edition in a noble Digipak CD also contains the complete recording session for “Thelema Rising” with mostly unreleased tracks.

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The “Black Quran” MCD features one long song with interludes and passages to ridicule islam in a most blasphemous way.

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Chante, Ô Flamme de la Liberté est le premier album du projet solo de Moribond (Forteresse, Ephemer), Serment. l’opus est un album concept racontant la légende d’un pacte avec le diable et la quête d’un héritage perdu, un voyage sombre et épique au cœur des forêts québécoises enneigées, enfouies par-delà les neiges des époques. Musicalement, bien que la signature épique et grandiose propre à Moribond soit aussi présente que toujours, Serment explore des avenues plus crues et symphoniques que Forteresse. Une superbe nouvelle entrée au sein du panthéon du Métal Noir Québécois!

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The third album from 1999 from the Swedish black metal veterans SETHERIAL.

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One of the most important Swedish black metal albums from the nineties re-issued on CD.

Comes housed in 300 gsm sleeve coated with matt machine varnish; includes double sided 300 gsm insert. Includes the exclusive vinyl bonus track “Their Blood In Me” taken from the 1995 ep “För dem mitt blod”.

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SHATARGAT compilation of the Crushing The Thrones Of Light (Demo 1996) and Wolfe Der Nacht (Demo 1999) tapes.

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SHORES OF LADON’s new EP “Heimkehr” (‘homecoming’) includes four new songs and a cover version, spanning over 26 minutes of duration altogether. The title itself shows yet again the band’s subtle sense for ambiguity: While referring to Orpheus’ retrieval of Eurydice from the underworld, which forms the core concept of the lyrics herein, as well as to a poetic German word for death, this EP also features old pre-Shores of Ladon songs ‘returning home’. Two of them (“Verlust” and “Jagdgrund”) originate from a nameless demo tape recorded in 2006 by St. and drummer M. (Cold Earth, Thorybos, Stygian Temple) with the lost lyrics being substituted. Also the title track pre-dates the band’s formation and was written by guitarist Nosophoros in 2008, re-arranged for SoL’s “Promo 2010” and now taking its final shape with re-arranged lyrics on this EP. Last but not least, and as very personal gaze into the past, “Abstieg” and “Weltenende” illustrate various SHORES OF LADON members’ deeply rooted passion for the Neofolk genre. The first is an own rendition and tribute while the latter is a cover version of one of this culture’s greatest hymns of the last two decades, “Ragnarok” by mighty Sonne Hagal.

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Eight years have past since SHORES OF LADON’s acclaimed debut album “Eindringling”. Finally, Sol Records brings to you its successor: “Witterung”. In German language the title itself refers to an old-fashioned word for weather as well as to the animalistic sense of smell, especially in hunter’s vocabulary. Similarly SoL’s music on here sets wolfish passion, invasively detailed guitar work and sharp tension-filled songwriting amidst an endearing autumnly cold Black Metal atmosphere. Together with the equally multi-layered poetic lyrics – filled with emotional chasms, intensive experiences in nature and subtly interwoven motives from literature and folklore – these seven songs, encompassing 48 minutes with no intro, outro or intermezzo, might easily represent SHORES OF LADON at their artistic climax so far.