Black Metal

Two Finnish black metal heavy weights united, unstoppable as you very well know. 67 minutes of madness.

Black Metal

Long an infamous name in underground circles, GOATVULVA formed in Finland in 1989 as a solo-project/side-distraction. With the band’s creations booze-fueled and spur-of-the-moment, many recordings are rumored to exist, and dates of release are entirely speculative. However, it is with absolute authority that the legendary Blasphemous Sexfago demo came first, in 1990 – and fittingly so, its title furthering the inspiration/influence of Sarcofago’s earliest (and best) works, and in effect serving as a secondary inspiration/influence for later legions delving into the deepest recesses of the bestial arts. That same year next brought Rehearsal ’90, with a flurry of demos following the next few years: chronologically Baphometal, Capella, Crucifixus, and Erotic Worship, the first- and last-named also serving as unwitting influences many years later for those wishing to explore the gutter of bestial/experimental black-noise morbidity.

Black Metal

The 1999 full-length available on LP.

Death Metal

Recorded within less than two weeks at a studio in Wilster, Germany back in 1993, “The Ending Quest” was a bit of a forgotten obscurity until Century Media Records’ 2012 anthology “Within the Shadow of Darkness”, which also covered all of the band’s demo recordings.
Now, the album is made available again as a limited edition including liner notes by Chris Dick (Decibel Magazine, USA).
A must have for all Swedish death metal connoisseurs!

Black Metal

Recorded in 1994, The Lady Rides A Black Horse is generally considered as the first album within the French black metal scene. With a new line-up and 11 tracks, keyboards parts that are sometimes incorporated into the waves of aggression for an ephemeral, atmospheric touch, this album has been completely remastered and with new artwork in the vein of ’90s atmosphere. This is a journey to the roots of the genre, where everything was yet to be created, where the core of Gorgon is revealed.

Re-issue of the very first album, re-mastered for a better dynamic by WSL studios.
A personal conception of black metal at 666 miles from the actual trend.

Black Metal

GORGOROTH’s iconic second full-length album “Antichrist” was released many moons ago and it remains as utterly unique in both sound and aura today as in 1996.

An absolute essential album.

Wasting no time with this enviable momentum, GRABUNHOLD return little more than a year later with more medieval madness: Heldentod, their full-length debut. Just as spellbinding as the preceding EP but even more expansive, Heldentod immediately creates a compelling canvas that’s simultaneously tied to tradition and pushing that tradition further. Its songwriting and attendant soundfield suggest strong second-wave vibes – silent citadels, sequestered keeps, dark dungeons – but never whiff of retro posturing or ham-fisted revisionism; rather, their invocation runs parallel to the Old Ways, fluently speaking the ancient dialect instead of stunted pidgin. In other, more telling ways, Heldentod strikes upon braver and less-travelled territory, bristling with a sparkling sort of production that’s palatable in its almost-crystalline sheen and befitting the album’s contents. Here, GRABUNHOLD maintain a more solemn aspect – more “pagan,” if you will – that’s given spectral flight through cascading melodicism and an integration of choral vocals, perhaps most stirringly encapsulated in the Spartan hymn “Trommeln in der Tiefe.” Elsewhere, the fire of old burns hotter than ever, with the band’s bravado amplified by the powerful ‘n’ pro production.