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Brandnew mini-album as ‘one-off’ vinyl-exclusive release in 500 hand numbered copies.

This deluxe edition comes in a sleeve flooded in black with silver foil-print as well as an A5 booklet in PMS-silver on black cardboard.

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With the memories of Vaal’s maniacal 2019 performance forever burnt into my psyche, I fervently seek out any and all new material that these Dutch deviants offer up. Vaal said it themselves in the write up for this new album, and I quote “While the fury of Vaal is still present, the focus has shifted towards a more melancholic and atmospheric approach.” I possibly didn’t realise just how much the focus has shifted before hearing this though, “Visioen Van Het Verborgen Land” is altogether more restrained and methodical than their past work, with more emphasis placed on brooding textures and slowly unfolding traditional BM. I appreciate that this small circle from The Netherlands operates within their own deeply transcendent sphere, and that they are light years ahead of my comprehension of BM, so I listen to “Visioen Van Het Verborgen Land” with a sense of the utmost respect, and while I perhaps would of wished for a little more rabid fury and off kilter madness similar to that which was witnessed on that frosty night inside Mayhem at Copenhagen, I can’t help but feel that there is something here, working its way beneath the surface insidiously, and something that will fall into place soon enough if I remain focused and steadfast. Much like “Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk”, “Visioen Van Het Verborgen Land” is likely to be revered long after its time and heralded as a milestone for Vaal, and Vaal should be commended for pushing themselves beyond the tried and true and exploring lands previously untouched.

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Formed in 2020, out of the ashes of two projects coming to an end, Los Angeles’ VAAMATAR was born with one intention: to play black metal in its purest form. Raw and fast and free of frills, the full-length Medievalgeist is the follow-up to their debut EP, Evil Witching Black Metal. Immediately, old sensations are awakened and recast anew. The spectre of the second wave of black metal during the 1990s drapes its wings across Medievalgeist, but VAAMATAR’s strong songwriting eludes easy categorization. Instead of early Darkthrone, one can hear here contemporaneously early Dødheimsgard; instead of early Enslaved, the ’90s work of Norway’s Hades; instead of prime Marduk, comparably prime Arckanum, and so on. Which is all to underline that the duo of VAAMATAR are old souls to the bitter end, having imbibed ancient wisdoms and now spilling them freely across their own teachings in the form of Medievalgeist.

Including booklet.

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Valac returns with the strength of poignant riffs and a warmer production that reveals levels of melodic entanglement, though furious and ravaging, this new album assures that the act’s legacy remains untouched and even enhanced.

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A piercing and memorable debut full-length shrouded in darkness, its gloomy sound carries an ominous aura that wholly captures the essence of the powerful arrangements. Scornful wails, obscure guitar riffs and somber melodies set the tone for this opus, spews of madness that for its crude delivery display a superior sense of dynamics, from mid-paced and atmospheric to storming rhythmic sections.

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“Black Clouds Gathering / Vallendusk” was released on DLP by Northern Silence in January 2018 and features the band’s self-titled EP from 2012 and their debut full length from 2013, both for the first time ever on vinyl.

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The clock strikes 12 and the vampire opens his coffin, out comes a murky stench of bloodsucking chaos. Behold! A vinyl compilation LP of the first two Vampiric Coffin releases. This band will surely set any mosh pit on fire with its hellish blend of raw, vampiric metal-punk. All copies come on bloody red splatter vinyl with black blob.

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This is a split entitled “By Sanguinarian Will…” features two Raw Black Metal acts that have conspired together against all life. Nocturnal Entity Vampirska hails from the USA and offers three chapters of “A Curse Bearing The Nocturnal Plague” that encapsulates melancholic and tormented spirits from the void. Hailing from the UK, Glemt bestows their most torturous and agonising work to date. Manifesting six verses from the abyss, Glemt lurks in the shadows of the listener’s mind creating a bond between them and the suffocating void.