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.

Black Metal

This is a debut coming from the Catalan duo ARNA, and a powerful first release as well.

Coming in strong with its modern day and quality production, yet still keeping a raw and unfiltered sound.

Impressive and atmospheric guitar riffs along side dark and beautiful lyrics that tell wicked tales.

Black Metal

Tracks A1 to B8 were originally released as the Sieg Heil ! cassette in 2004.
Track B9 was originally released as the Belgik Fierte cassette in 2004.
Tracks B10 and B11 were originally released as the Aux Kamarades Emprisonnés cassette in 2004.
Track B12 is a bonus Sarcófago cover, originally released on the original CD version of this compilation in 2009, then on the Acht Und Achtzig cassette in 2010.

Black Metal

Tracks A1 to B8 were originally released as the Sieg Heil ! cassette in 2004.
Track B9 was originally released as the Belgik Fierte cassette in 2004.
Tracks B10 and B11 were originally released as the Aux Kamarades Emprisonnés cassette in 2004.
Track B12 is a bonus Sarcófago cover, originally released on the original CD version of this compilation in 2009, then on the Acht Und Achtzig cassette in 2010.

Finnish Black Metal

Demo material out on 7” EP.

Black Metal

These 3 tracks were recorded 17/18 February 1995.

Sombre Records

Black Metal

Calamites & les Calamités is the first full-length of Ascète. Through a rusty black metal, joyfully old, Ascète gives its vision of a forgotten and forlorn countryside, where the small poor people of campains slowly die in the indifference of big cities administrations. Melodic Black metal with punk/oï influences, Calamites & les Calamités haunts us in ridiculously difform Perigord legends, carried by the decadent proclamations howled in an almost ruined, out of age barn… (vocals were actually recorded there).

The magnificent work on guitars and sound will carry you in a forgotten countryside, where an aging population, almost feral and animal-looking, discretly and suspiciously wanders in its misery. Among the remains of minor historical landmark monuments, which returns to Earth, too. Slower, maybe, but in the same definitive manner.

Limited to 150 handnumbered. With lyrics insert.

Black Metal

Nibelungenblut ist eine eigene Interpretation einer der bekanntesten deutschen Sagen, dem Nibelungenlied.

Vom Walkürentanz über den Schatten Parzivals, Fafnir und Siegfried geht es zu Kriemhilds Verwandlung.