Black Metal

Pillars of the early 2000s black metal underground, Sweden’s ARMAGEDDA exuded an authentically ancient air despite their youthful years. The black metal underground back then was a purer, more traditionalist iteration of what it is today, and within that staunchly ideological landscape did ARMAGEDDA prove their fiery intent with their 2001 debut album, The Final War Approaching, and more so with its follow-up in 2003, Only True Believers – the title itself a statement of intent, naturally. Alas, as many passionate young men are wont to do, the duo of A. and Graav became restless with the shackles of supposedly “true” black metal and began plotting their next move, one that would drive deeper into the true heart of “black metal” whilst exhibiting the unorthodoxy of approach that once endeared the genre to sonic revolutionaries. And while that would manifest in the band’s third and final album, the shockingly mature Ond Spiritism, it is with Only True Believers where ARMAGEDDA found the perfect synthesis of ideology and imagination.

RAC/Oi!

One of the best Oi! albums of his time. We’re talking about the debut work “Patriotic Voice”, the first American Oi! Band Arresting Officers from 1989, with which the musicians played a combination of “eggs” and melody. You can say a lot about the band, that they were “right-wing” or even went a little further in their own way. The fact is that the boys from Philadelphia were American patriots in the best sense. Therefore, they did not want to spread the message of US imperialism, for which patriotism is now known to be abused by the transatlantic establishment. Due to the increasingly narrow corridor of opinion in the Federal Republic of Germany in 2019, accompanied by politically desired criminal prosecution, two songs unfortunately had to be removed compared to the original CD. The tracks “The boat is full” and “Why do you stay silent?” are NOT included on this record!