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Hymns to the Lunar Realm is divided into four songs, each between 9 and 10 minutes long. While the tracks don’t drastically differ from one another, every song demonstrates diverse elements. We can take “Stardust Elysium” as an example. It kicks off with the aforementioned interplay of angelic choirs and anguished demonic cries. Soon after, a sombre melody takes center stage. After 2 minutes, an exquisite piano solo kicks in, supported by the grand sounds of brass instruments. The strained vocals return to overwhelm the piano playing, and blast beats crush the elegant music into ferocious black metal. At the six-minute-mark, the keys and trumpets resurface triumphantly, heralding a final transition to a two-minute-long section of ambience, giving the listener a moment’s rest before the grand finale.

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“Triumphant Fall of the Malignant Christ” is our declaration and commitment to death, despair and the revenge of The Archangel. May you rot, your souls twisted in agony for eternity.

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Active from 2001-2005, the highly revered side project of Leviathan’s Jef Whitehead, Lurker of Chalice, is mostly known for the 2005 self-titled full-length. Prior to that album, however, Wrest recorded two CD-R demos under the Lurker of Chalice name, each of which was limited to approximately 50 copies or less and sold at a single record store in San Francisco, near where he was living at the time. Like the full-length, both demos were eponymous, though the first demo was identified only by the initials “L.O.C.” written in runes. While a few of the songs from the demo era bear indicia of black metal, the material from that period is generally far more experimental, defying any effort to be neatly categorized. For “Tellurian Slaked Furnace,” Wrest has distilled the best material from the early period of the project and edited, collaged, and compiled it, weaving together something more coherent and album-like. In this way, there seems to be something of his current artistic sensibility projected onto these recordings from nearly two decades earlier. In keeping with the confusing taxonomy of the project, the tracks on this LP are unnamed. The album opens with a song previously called “Lurker of Chalice” on the 2002 demo but is untitled on this release. The song showcases the haunting minimalism of Lurker of Chalice as slow acoustic guitars revolve around one another, arpeggiated chords ringing out above percussive accents. With the second track, a more sinister energy emerges, advanced by the first and only appearance of Wrest’s seething vocals.

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“Provenance of Cruelty” is the second album of Mactätus, originally released by Napalm Records in late 1998. At the time of its release the hype for Scandinavian Black Metal in general and Symphonic and Melodic Black Metal in particular was already declining, following milestones such as Emperor’s “In the Nightside Eclipse”, Dimmu Borgir’s “Stormblåst”, Mörk Gryning’s “Tusen år har gått”, Gehenna’s “Second Spell” or Limbonic Art’s “Moon in the Scorpio”.

The result was that at the time of their release in late 1998 equally brilliant Symphonic Black Metal albums such as Odium’s “The Sad Realm of the Stars” or Mactätus’ “Provenance of Cruelty” were not as appreciated by a majority of fans as the earlier classics before them and remained a bit obscure and underrated for quite some time.

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The 1999 demo available for the first time on LP.

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An album that evokes an inclination that it was crafted in two planes of existence simultaneously.
Synths warble and vibrate as an ever sinister presence harkening one’s own demise.
The guitars are caught in an endless duel, striking and clashing with a relentless fury.
Ravenous vocals and expressive drums seek to anchor these two elemental forces, providing focal points within the madness.
A nightmarish journey into hysteria that is as rewarding as it is punishing.

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The demo from 2012 available again on single LP.

True Black Metal from Quebec.

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12″ LP black vinyl limited to 300 copies. LP verson includes a massive 24 page A5 size booklet, featuring the first chapter of the bands history and what lead up to the formation of Malign and their debut 1995 demo.

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Malvery’s debut from 1999 is finally available on vinyl for the first time in it’s original glory.

Full color cover, 4 page 30×30 insert with corrected song titles, all the lyrics and drawings from the original cd version and with restored and remastered audio that fixes quite a few issues that the original cd had! Listeners are confronted with a vision of a desolate hell of sheer black despair and nothingness.

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Resembling an ancient agony, in eternal dying splendor, these entities have crossed the southern night skies to recite a work entitled “Ensomhet” one of the ancient passages adorned with darkness and cruelty. This opus to the ancient ones hovers over the distant eyes of the great black dragon, the eternal poisonous sleep of the gods exalted in cold cacophonous stormwinds, each of the orchestrations constitutes the black spell of the primordial realms and the majestic countenance, of vitrified prayers beyond from the southern mountains eroded and sunken by fate, where primitive man completed his transmigration in the mysteries and secrets of possession…

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The original full-length from 1995 available again on LP.

Black Metal

The original full-length from 1995 available again on LP.