Black Metal

Restless as ever, PA VESH EN prodigiously keeps apace with his tortured vision of black metal with a brand-new second album, Pyrefication. Ever aptly titled, Pyrefication is total spiritual meltdown: this is the veritable sound of the soul collapsing inward and dying a most exquisite death. To that, PA VESH EN draws inspiration from within, and here locates a wobbly, ever-so-delicate balance between Cryptic Rites of Necromancy’s ultraviolent hysteria and the murkier mystery of his earliest work, all done with spellbinding alchemy that makes for a miasmic 40-minute labyrinth. If anything, PA VESH EN seems unsettlingly comfortable taking his muse wherever he wishes on Pyrefication, malforming and maiming any atmosphere he wishes whilst maintaining that beckoning-abyssward style of melodicism he’s made his own since his auspicious start.

Black Metal

Now arrives Church of Bones, proving with no small amount of finality that PA VESH EN is creating some of the most mysterious and vital black metal of modern times. At seven songs spanning 37 minutes, Church of Bones feels far more vast than its otherwise-compact runtime suggests. If the preceding split with TEMPLE MOON marked a momentous shift toward total and utter desolation, then PA VESH EN dives deepest – and equally, both in manner and quality – into both the fog and the murk here, further developing that malodorous melodicism that likewise crept forth on the split. Returning to misery and comfort (and the comfort of misery), the long ‘n’ languorous landscapes laid out across Church of Bones beckon the listener in a most seductive manner, all before those cursed tendrils ensnare the subconscious and suck it dry, any last semblance of hope extinguished. This celestial drift-unto-descent feels somewhat familiar in the grand scheme of black metal which uses rawness as a weapon, and yet there’s that elusive X-factor (or, literally, just literal elusiveness) that makes PA VESH EN sound completely and utterly ALIEN.

Black Metal

Sylvan rituals manifest apparitions of nature and chaos through melodies that simultaneously mesmerize and pulverize any caught within their maelstrom. Shamanistic vocals primally rupture the earth with mystic fury supported by cataclysmic rhythms.
The tracks at times reach blistering assaults only to collapse into sirens calls of respite.
A dramatic shift halfway through takes the listener to a darkened world of folk, as a dichotomy unfolds of acoustic instrumentation and demonic vocals which is ultimately reversed with distortion and clean singing.
The album ends on the shattering of tranquility with summons of war and scarred ground.
A diverse mix of fiercely melodic and folk influenced dark art.

Black Metal

PAIMON GATE’s debut album – BUTCHER TO THE DEVIL’S COURT expands upon the groundwork laid out in the SEVEN LEGIONS demo released last year from this new American Black Metal cult. For fans of brutal Black Metal from a time long lost, the tapestry of influences that make up this work may be noticed via the likes of DEMONCY, VON, old IMPALED NAZARENE, old MARDUK, old SAMAEL and MORBID ANGEL. From a time when the lines between Death Metal and Black Metal were blurred and the potency of dark Satanic music was the focus – PAIMON GATE’s debut album delivers 30 minutes of scathing Satanic work – Executed with an honest and sincere dedication to the evil art of black metal music.

Power Electronics

Recorded in August 1996.

Originally released on Slaughter ProductionsSPT085 in 80 hand numbered copies.

Mastered by Nobuki Nishiyama March 2020.

Power Electronics

Packaged in a screen-printed cardboard cover with an old stamped biblical page affixed to the cover.

Includes 12-page booklet.

Death Metal

Originally released in 1992 by a very young OSMOSE, at the beginning of what many hold as the label’s “classic years,” PAN-THY-MONIUM was formed by scene legend Dan Swanö (Edge of Sanity, Nightingale, Bloodbath) and members of Ophthalamia to indulge in – and push ever further – the most bizarre and avant-garde boundaries of death metal. An opening track that’s over 20 minutes long, saxophone freakouts, wordless vocals, constantly shape-shifting song structures full of swampy riffing and careening blastbeats…everything but the kitchen sink goes into Dawn of Dreams. Although it caused confusion upon its original release, the album later became a cult classic with my underground fanatics and other weirdos, especially fans of Swanö’s vast body of work. Experience it again (or for the first time) and blow your mind!

300 x A-side/B-side – opaque gold/opaque yellow 12″ (140g) in a microtene innerbag, printed innersleeve on 220g, jacket full-color on 350g, all assembled in a PVC overbag.

Black Metal

Vinyl release of PANPHAGE’s highly acclaimed full-lenght.

First time on Vinyl. Comes on classic black vinyl with sleeve on reverse board.

Black Metal

Vinyl release of PANPHAGE’s highly acclaimed debut album “Storm”.

First time on Vinyl. Comes on classic black vinyl with sleeve on reverse board.

Black Metal

Limited to 500 copies.

Solid cover with a heavy two-sided insert sheet, both with matt varnish, A2 Poster and download of the album.

Black Metal

Limited to 500 copies.

Solid cover with fold-out insert on thick stock, both with matt varnish, A2 Poster, download of the album.