New work from the talented Ukrainian depressive black metal band. This time Raventale demostrate us a transition to black doom side, still preserving their inimitable atmosphere and melodiousness. Combining fury and coldness of black metal with melancholic loneliness of doom metal, in addition with some elements of ambient, the band rises up on a new level of quality. The beautiful lyrics make the new album “Long Passed Days” more attractive for all lovers of the voluptuous side of black metal.
Tracklist:
1. By A Gnash Of Pain (Nostalgia)
2. Long Passed Days
3. Up For Horizon (Both Like Birds)
4. Sunset Of The Age
5. From Time Of Black Wells
6. My Silhouette Is Going Far
The debut album of the project Opaque Lucidity, lining-up musicians from two Russian bands, Aglaomorpha and Risus Sardonicus, carries the listener to a world of music woven of dark ambient and atmospheric funeral doom metal in the spirit of Until Death Overtakes Me, and lyrics building on spiritual development of the consciousness and written by the influence of zen buddhism, dzogcheng, teachings of philosophers and different esoterics of literature.
Tracklist:
1. Induality, Not Induality
2. In The Insane Dance Of Stars
3. Kense
4. New Aeon
New work of dark ambient master – Vinterriket! «Zeit-Los:Laut-Los» is a 40 minutes soundtrack for a film Kontemplative Antagonismen Des Augenblicks.
The album is made in the best traditions of the band, which confesses the religion of nordic dark ambient, filled with the noises of winter forest and with the breath of nordic wind.
Expecially for that release mastering was done in Strype Klangschmiede (Oslo, Norway) in 2008. This CD is packaged in mini LP sleeve and strictly limited to 1000 copies
BadMoodMan Music / Solitude Productions presents a new name on the Ukrainian black metal scene – Darktrance, with their debute album «Ghosts In The Shells». Powerfull sound, apocalyptic atmosphere, original use of electronics and wide variety of music genres, from depressive black metal to dark metal, will be interesting for the fans of such bands as Deinonychus and Forgotten Tomb, and will catch the fancy of all extreme black metal lovers.
Tracklist:
1. Long Dark Heath
2. Delusional Dreaming
3. Rain Of Sorrow
4. Between Two Worlds
5. God Of Time
6. Black Sun
7. Ghosts In The Shells
8. Humans’ Devilry
9. Prison Inside Us
Mournful Gust – a well known Ukrainian group come back with a new album after an eight-year break! The debut album was issued in 2000 on MC and has been rereleased on CD in 2005 by Soyuz/Metal Agen. Today the group comes back with the new material, combining such styles as: gothic metal, death/doom and elements of the European folk-music. The sated melodies are filled with parts of live flute. The voice of the vocalist (known from his work with Autumnia) transfers a rich palette of feelings and experiences, which have been put in pawn in the English-speaking lyrics, passing from clear singing, to growl.
The addition of a 24 page booklet makes this disk a unique eye catcher with pit art.
Tracklist:
1. A Pain To Remember
2. It’s Our Own Tragedy
3. To Your Deceits…Again
4. From Illusions And Jealousy
5. The Cold Solitude
6. With Every Suffering
7. Honey For My Wounds
8. Recover Me In Sores
Debut album by an American Band – a project of Mark Anderson formerly of the legendary heavy rock band Manila Road.
The music can be described as a combination of death/black and death/doom and is full of heavy riffs
From time to time the riffs, the solo’s and the vocals approach the classic work of Tiamat “Clouds” and Syrach. Excellent recording quality and superior musician craft make this album different from many others.
Tracklist:
1. Flesh Without Sin
2. God Unto Myself
3. The Journey Back
4. Facing The Black
5. Suffer
6. Waking The Dead
7. What Calm Is Without Storm
8. Let It Be So
Dutch stoner-rock band Floodstain proudly presents their listeners a brand new album “Dreams Make Monsters”. This album is a must for the fans of heavy and catchy rock. If you like Queens of the Stone Age, Corrosion of Conformity, Floodgate, Nebula. Fu Manchu, Alabama Thunderpussy, you will definitely dig this release.
Catchy melodies are being alternated with heavy riffs. Widly solo’s complete the groovy rhythm section and the heavy guitars. You can hear similarities with a well known Dutch band Heavy Lord as two of the Heavy Lord members participate on this release.
Tracklist:
1. Monster
2. Love Is Poison
3. Trailblazer
4. You Lose Alone
5. Straydogs
6. Deathwish
7. End Of Trail
The most recent work from the Swiss cult band, which shows Vinterriket from a whole new angle. A project, well known for its work in black metal and dark ambient genres, put those two together creating very unusual sounding versions of their old black metal songs. Almost from the first notes you can recognize the keys, the acoustic guitars, drums and clean vocals creating a cold, ambient atmosphere.
The album includes acoustic versions of songs from the Winterschatten CD and limited “Aura” PIC-EP, “Im Ambivalenten Zwielicht Der Dunkelheit” and “Kaelte” 7inches which makes this CD even more valuable for not only the collectors but for all the people who are into this music.
The album has also been released in a special edition digi-pack with alternative artwork and gold CD limited to 500 copies.
Tracklist:
1. Winterschatten
2. Verloren In Den Tiefen des Waldes
3. Aura II
4. Der Schrei Der Leere
5. Schneesturm / Einbruch Der Weissen Dunkelheit
6. Aura I
7. Monumentale Schwaerze
8. Zuengelnde Winterflammen
BMM. 008-07 – Standart Edition limited to 1000 copies
BMM. 008-07D – Digibook Edition limited to 500 copies
This first full length of Russian SKOGYR presents four, melancholic black metal tracks. SKOGYR’s instrumental music will remind you of the early DRUGKH and often sounds like noise of the autumn rain or evening forest.
The album includes a bonus track, a cover called “Silent Hill” originally written by a cult composer AKIRA YAMAOKA. Multimedia section includes a video clip “Chant I”.
Tracklist:
1. Chant I
2. Chant II
3. Chant III
4. Chant IV Bonus:
5. Silent Hill (cover)
6. Chant I (video)
The debut conceptual album of Moscow band The Morningside unwraps before the listener the cloth which has embodied all shades of autumn, filled by light grief and a melancholy. The rich musical material has incorporated set of black metal and doom metal styles. The Morningside music will suit fans of Katatonia (“Brave Murder Day” period), Agalloch and Opeth, and everyone who like dark, sincere music.
Tracklist:
1. Intro
2. The Wind
3. The Trees
4. The Shadows Of The Past
5. Outro
Re-issue of first three demos of one of the oldest Russian underground bands. CD contains “Madness Cannibalism” (1994), “C.I.A.” (1994) and “Memory” (1995), which was self released by band on MC. After more than ten years they became very rare so today everyone who are interested in history of Russian underground can hear music of S.C.A.L.P. which they played at the beginning of their way – raw death metal with doom elements!
Tracklist:
1. Intro
2. The Industry
3. Flying Dutchman
4. Rotting Being
5. B.A.T.S.O.L.
6. Doomed Hopes
7. Profanation Of Saints
8. Madness Cannibalism
9. D.V.O.R.C.
10. Scum
11. C.I.A.
12. The American Jesus
13. A Vicious Circle
14. Next Morning Without Me
15. Doomed Hopes
16. What For?
Kauan presents its debut eclectic album which has incorporated such different styles as dark-folk, black-metal and doom-metal. In “Lumikuuro” it is possible to find echoes of Shape Of Despair music ( “Shades Of …” period), Agalloch, early Empyrium and Tenhi. The album is based on the lyrics written in Finnish language.
Tracklist:
1. Alku
2. Aamu Ja Kaste
3. Lumikuuro
4. Savu
5. Koivun Elama
6. Syleilyn Sumu
7. Villiruusu
8. Syleilyn Sumu (Acoustic)
Unique album of a duet from Ukraine for the present time. The unusual music inspired by the most innovative and disputable My Dying Bride album “34.788%… Complete”. “Dry Our Fears”, undoubtedly, differs from the prototype with more psychodelic atmosphere, enveloping sounding and intelligence of performance. Painful music of Necrotic Trust opens to the listener the most dark corners of human soul.
Tracklist:
1. The Point Of Fear
2. Revelling In Decay
3. A Conflict Point
4. A Poison For Flesh
5. Hysterical Eden
6. The Light Can’t Belong
7. My Naked Misery
8. Dry Our Fears
9. Plague Spot
10. Dysangelium
11. Bloodcast
New work of this famous underground band from Surgut. It is the first album in band’s history where only lyrics in Russian are used. “To Solitude” presents us pagan-metal with influence of doom-metal like Katatonia and emotional-rock like late Anathema.
Tracklist:
1. Intro
2. A Leaf Fall
3. Nothing
4. Sleeping
5. Under The Rain
6. To Not Return
7. Autumn Leaf
8. To Solitude
The latest work of this one-man-band band from Moscow presents atmospheric doom-death with lyrics in Russian. Unlike in older demo-recordings, now heavy guitar riffs dominate in music and growlings are activly used.
Tracklist:
1. Tears Of October – Intro
2. Give Me Your Sorrow
3. As it’s Predetermined
4. Death Dance
5. Fragments Of Memory
6. Into the Lake of Ghosts (My Dying Bride cover)
