Re-release of the first album of S.C.A.L.P., one of the oldest metal bands in Russia, released in 1997 by R.I.P.Productions with support of Czech label Leviathan Records. An album that became a real rarity among the collectors is now available to everyone who is interested in growth process of 90s metal scene.
On “Through Eternity” the band show a change from fast melody structures of death metal, heard on old demo-recordings, to systematic and melodic music on the borders of death/doom metal. Vocals and bass guitar by suddenly passed away Eugeny Rigenok will remain in the history of Russian underground forever. Disc presented in new re-mastered edition with better sound quality.
Tracklist:
1. Cry Of The Ocean
2. Till The Clouds Fly
3. Silentium
4. The Fate Will Never Repeat
5. Who Dared To Say
6. Removal
7. Fly Throught Eternity
The debut album of the Russian band Wine From Tears is a result of years of travel. They became famous between the lovers of this genre for their participation in Russian doom metal festivals. “Through The Eyes Of A Mad” – a harmonic mixture of hard guitars and atmospheric keyboard parts, metal riffs and wonderful melodies, like the best sides of Saturnus, Swallow The Sun and Draconian.
Recording and mixing of album made by professional studio SBS Records. Disc with a gold evaporation and a splendid design of layout from the painter of Revelations of Rain and Mose fits great and compliments the impression of the amazing music by this band.
Tracklist:
1. Angels Also Die… (Intro)
2. Since I Fell…
3. The Sinner
4. Funeral Time
5. Night Of A Succubus
6. Close To Katatonia
7. Bless Me Bleeding Angels
8. The Secret Of The Woods
9. Before The Gods
10. Feeding The Angel
11. My Tears
12. Meus Altius Pater Noster
New work of S.C.A.L.P. – one of the oldest metal bands in Russia, opening a band from different side. As result of experiments with different styles of metal, band got new, more hard and aggressive sound, but in same time, it didn’t lose atmosphere of sorrow and melancholy, which was constant part of previous works of band.
Tracklist:
1. Rassvet
2. Skzvoz’ Stenu
3. Chuzhaya Voina
4. Teni (Tvoi mir…)
5. Zhazhda
6. Kto
7. Solnce Mertvih
8. Za Gorizont I
9. Za Gorizont II
10. The Last (bonus track)
A new work of the project Letargy Dream who became a full line-up band from a one-man-band. Here Letarg (also known as the bass player of Revelations Of Rain) has united with musicians from Beheaded Zombie and Nabaath. Including three tracks with the total of 50 minutes, the album shows Letargy Dream to us from a new side, a new rising of the band in the ways of dark metal, doom/death metal and death metal with riffs familiar for traditional doom metal!
Tracklist:
1. Singularity
2. New Day Will Never Come
3. Uranus
BadMoodMan Music presents band Alley with their debut album “The Weed”! Young but professional musicians offer for all lovers of hard and smart music perfect mix of progressive and death metal in best traditions of Opeth and Daylight Dies. Bright compositions, professional playing and high quality of record make Alley a part of circle of bright representatives of Russian hard scene. Mixing and mastering of record made in famous studio NavahoHut.
Tracklist:
1. Duhkha
2. Coldness
3. Dust Layer
4. Hessian Of Rime
5. Fading Fall
6. Jaded Mirrored
7. Days For Gray
Solitude Productions and BadMoodMan Music proudly present the long-awaited second album of the unique Russian band Kauan. A band that got alot of good reviews in Russia and in the West, a band whose first album became a sensation in Europe (won nominations from “best album of the year” to “breakout of the year 2007″) comes back with a new album that demonstrates creative and professional growth of the musicians.
“Tietajan Laulu” – a bright conceptual linen, includes warm, soft and hard metal – music close to Agalloch, Tenhi, Subaudition, with inimitable coloring and lyrics in Finnish and Russian languages.
Mastering and mixing made by Pavel Peristy, who has also worked with bands like Intagio, Revelations Of Rain, Tears Of Mankind and many others…
Disc with gold evaporation packaged in stylish digipak including aerograph pictures made by the painter of the band.
Tracklist:
1. Instead Of Tears
2. Kyynelten Sijaan
3. Mother’s Song
4. Aidin Laulu
5. Transparent Flower
6. Orkidea
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)
