Black Metal

A full decade after their last album “Nemesis Noctura”, during which the band remained active on stage but went through several line-up changes and did not record any new material, Eminenz return with their much-anticipated 7th full length album “Diabolical Warfare”.

Embellished by the magnificent artwork of Northem Art (Northem also being the current Eminenz drummer), the new release features eight songs in the classic Eminenz style with traditional Black and Death Metal riffing, atmospheric synth layers and interwoven melodic guitar leads, that will be sure to captivate old and new fans alike.

Black Metal

Excellent mid tempo symphonic/melodic black metal.

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A masterpiece of monumental and bombastic Dark Romantic Metal.

With “Songs Of Moors And Misty Fields” (1997), Schwadorf perfected his dark Metal full of classical Romanticism and traditional folklore. The album relates back to the band’s debut “A Wintersunset …”, but also delivers the blue-print for their later development into more tranquil folk sceneries.

Black Metal / Neofolk

With their sixth full-length, “Über den Sternen”, an allegorical German rendering of their band name meaning “Above the Stars”, EMPYRIUM still draw from the magic and spirits of wild places, nature’s beauty, and human relics of ages long past. “Über den Sternen” echoes this reconciliation of the old with the new on a musical level as well. The Franconian duo is putting more emphasis on the electric guitars and harsh vocals again, which marked their first two albums and stood strong upon the band’s melodic black metal foundations. Yet EMPYRIUM also revisit the dark folk style, which the Germans had progressively embraced on their third and fourth albums.

Gatefold 2LP (black vinyl, 180g) with etching, printed inner sleeves and protection sleeve

BLACK METAL

EMPYRIUM first played melodic black metal and only later shifted to dark folk. “… ​Der wie ein Blitz vom Himmel fiel …” (“he who fell from the sky like lightning”) was recorded on December 19, 1994, and released earlier in the following year. The Germans’ first demo cassette, which became an underground success just by word of mouth in times before the internet, not only marked the beginning of a lifelong career in music for mastermind Schwadorf; it also triggered the foundation of Prophecy Productions and Klangschmiede Studio E, both becoming internationally renowned in their own right, but also served as a template for black-metal-infused sounds with lyrics inspired by the wonders and mysteries of nature that were picked up by many a band that came afterwards.

Black Metal

“Túrin Turambar Dagnir Glaurunga” (“Túrin Turambar, the slayer of Glaurung”) is the debut album of the Italian solo-project Emyn Muil, featuring Epic/Atmospheric Black Metal and Ambient/ Dungeon Synth.

Black Metal

Limited to 200 copies on black vinyl, gatefold cover, including insert page

RAC/Oi!

How-please-what?! Rock-O-Rama Records has re-released “Der Clou” and surely half of the songs are missing? Nope, just a song. Four songs had to be minimally edited digitally. Prosecutors, youth protectors and “democracy promoters” (all male/female/male) will vomit. And with what? Rightly! Please move on, there is nothing to see or find anything criminally relevant here.

With “Der Clou” in 1987, Endstufe released a real album of the century in the Oi! / Skinhead music sector, but the distribution of the record was abruptly stopped a few years later. A federal authority responsible for morality and decency found in the 12 panel that this record was unsuitable for young people and “socio-ethically disorienting.” Or as we would say: “The Clou” is the ultimate soundtrack for everyone who has and lives the feeling that they don’t fit into the norm and celebrate their non-conformity hard!

RAC/Oi!

The two Bremen bands Endstufe and Volksgemurmel crash into the music salon of the interested audience with six songs each. They perform catchy melodies with meaningful lyrics. In addition, the originally rather dull mix with relatively quiet vocals shines in new splendor thanks to the vinyl mastering. This time everything can be heard clearly and clearly and the sound now finally has the right rough thump – in contrast to “back in the day”. If you still want to read the lyrics of the old tunes in black and white, the text sheet (with photos of both bands) is attached. By the way, the final stage tracks on this production are a bit livelier and more aggressive than the material on the “Skinhead Rock ‘n’ Roll” album, which was released in the same year. But that’s just by the way.

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The full-length from 1997 available again on DLP

200 x black 2×12″ (180g) microtenne innerbag, printed innersleeve on 220g, gatefold, full-color on 350g with hot foil stamping, all assembly in a PVC overbag.

Black Metal

Classic from 1994 available again on LP.