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This second entry of Dor includes a set of stellar main vocalists ranging from Witch Mountain´s Kayla Dixon, Sylvaine, Mihu Ilie (Abigail) to the contest winner Caleb Bergen (Sleepwalkers). Black vinyl with printed inner sleeve limited to 200 pressings.

For quite some time guitarist Jarno Salomaa (Shape Of Despair, ex-Rapture) and vocalist Ilpo Paasela (The Chant) had spoken about putting together a band that would reflect the vulnerability and the certain atmosphere of the 90's. Such groups as early Katatonia, Paradise Lost and October Tide had made all-ghanging impact on both in their youth. Finally, in early 2015 the line-up was completed with Tomi Ullgren (Shape of Despair, Impaled Nazarene) on guitars, Sameli Köykkä (ex-Colosseum) on drums and Markus Forsström (The Chant) on bass. Counting Hours was born. The main thing was that all had similar thoughts on what kind of feelings and views the music can arouse. The first and so far only demo was recorded in summer/autumn 2016. Part of the material Jarno had written already in the late 90's before parting ways with Rapture and the other part came alive later. The untitled demo cd sold out fast but chance to re-release it on vinyl came in 2018. The official release will be on September through The Vinyl Division. The road to perdition will also go on as there's new material coming. Exit all false! This 2018 vinyl version includes an extended version of "Buried In The White" plus a new mix and master dedicated for vinyl. Limited to 200 copies on single black vinyl with printed inner sleeve. 45 RPM

Started in early 2010 by Sean Deth (Osi And The Jupiter, Witchhelm, Ulven), Lucian the Wolfbearer was conceived as a sonic funeral death doom project dedicated to the cosmic energy of nature through paganism and esoteric workings. After three full length albums available as digital download, LTWB released a last effort to date entitled "Old Roots" in 2019, again only self released on Bandcamp but finally seeing physical release in 2021 by The Vinyl Division as CD, LP and digital, all of them fully remastered by Greg Chandler at Priory Recording Studios. LTWB music is made to take you on a heavy journey of meditation into other realms of being, surrounded by a haunting atmosphere that will drive straight through the soul. 4 panel digipack limited to 300 pressings, remastered by Greg Chandler. Track 3 appears as "Binding the Will of Mountains".

Available as 12" EP with insert on black, electric blue or brown marble vinyl, limited to 100 units each. Dedicated vinyl master. Jaani Peuhu, producer, songwriter and musician from Helsinki (Finland) is the creator of darkwave electronic band Iconcrash, which debuted with "Nude" in 2005, followed by two more albums. In 2015 Jaani set out on his solo project and released his first album, “Tear Catcher”. He joined Swallow the Sun in 2019 while producing "When A Shadow Is Forced Into The Light“, which reached the Finnish album charts at #1 and winned him a nomination for the Finnish grammy “Emma” in 2020. Jaani has worked with various multiplatinum-selling Finnish pop artists and metal acts like Before The Dawn, Diamond Black, Thunderstone, and To/Die/For. He also topped the album charts with writing and co-producing Lord of the Lost's 2018 album "Thornstar" and was nominated for the "Emma“ for Hallatar's debut album "No Stars Upon The Bridge“ (2018), which he also produced and mixed, along with playing bass live. Although Jaani wanted to focus on his career as a producer, touring with Hallatar and Swallow the Sun made him want to tour with his own music again. He had the unique idea to create the genre of “new doom”. From that, Mercury Circle was born. This is a new direction of dark metal infused with powerful synth/electro waves and doom. He’s finally returning to vocals to bring you something purely enigmatic. He would say: "After I returned from touring with Hallatar I started to write new music. My plan was not to write anything too heavy. For some reason the songs I wrote were closer to doom metal than dark rock. I followed my heart and wrote an album without any preconceptions about genres, planning, or second guessing what I was doing. I felt like I needed to get these songs out of my system. When the songs were written and the demos done I started to think what I was going to do with them and whether I should form a band to perform them. I made a of list of musicians I wanted to work with. I contacted them, played the demos, and after asking if they were interested to join, they all said yes". Thus the lineup was completed with Juppe Sutela (To/Die/For) and Jussi Hämäläinen (Hanging Garden,The Chant) on guitars, Antti Kiiski (Sleep of Monsters, Rytmihäiriö) on bass and Juuso Raatikainen (Swallow the Sun) on drums. Their 2020 debut EP “The Dawn of Vitriol” contains 5 tracks in more than 30 minutes ranging from synth/electro sounds to touching doom metal, without leaving aside catchy melodies no short of emotion that will please fans of Killing Joke, Anathema, Cathedral, Depeche Mode, The Gathering, Ulver or The Cure among others. Cover artwork was created by the renowned and prolific graphic designer and visual artist Kalle Pyyhtinen (Utudesign) and was mastered by Jaime Gómez Arellano at Orgone Studios.

Dark metal infused with powerful synth/electro waves and doom, Mercury Circle is the brand new project by Iconcrash's and Swallow The Sun’s, two times Finnish Grammy nominated Jaani Peuhu. Here he is creating a diverse offering of atmospheric and darkly music where the songs differ wildly in expression and sonic aesthetics. Truly a genre of its own, grabbing the listener's attention while establishing their very own kind of "New Doom". Mercury Circle debut EP, digipak.

In their 3 years of existence, with one EP (Vaho) and one Full-Length album (Último Exhalario), Mourning Sun has earned a place in the international Doom Metal scene, as the proposal has rapidly became known overseas. Sound, texts and visual art have been shaped by influences from Doom, Folk and Black Metal, yet starting from a strong connection with the local geography and scenery of southern Chile, taking the duplicity of nature and existence, concrete and abstract. Último Exhalario will finally have vinyl treatment, including the bonus track "The Exhaustion Of Life" on black vinyl limited to 300 copies worldwide with printed inner sleeve.

The Hours of my Wake, the debut album from Finland´s Obseqvies, rakes the tolls of the most angst ridden of livings and throws them back at existence by digging deep into the mires of funeral doom. Out of this world, profound and distraughtly deep, this modern masterpiece takes the listener beyond and back with an outstandingly well-yielded musicianship. Not relinquishing the lessons learnt from the masters of the genre, it does tap into the very seams of musical sanity and twists them beyond healing. The path is paved. Obseqvies will make the horror of dying real. There is no beginning and no end, just an endless circle in the process of dying. Double black vinyl with gatefold sleeve and artwork from Greek visual artist and singer Gogo Melone (Aeonian Sorrow, Clouds). Limited to 200 copies and dedicated vinyl master for this version.

TodoMal (translates as “all evil” or “all wrong”) came to life in the year zero of our era, 2020, as the brain child of Wildman and Mile, two veteran multi-instrumentalists of the Spanish underground (and not only) metal scene, whose extensive background goes back to a myriad of projects of multiple styles. TodoMal is the product of serendipity, a personal combination of the solemnity of traditional doom metal with the profusion of space-rock. TodoMal's backdrop is the vast, placid and depressing desolate wasteland of the north of the Alcarria region, in the so-called "uninhabited rural Spain''. It evokes a place halfway between the Mancha of Don Quixote, the film Los Santos Inocentes, the realism of the Generation of '98, the ecclesiastical baroque, films such as Buñuel's Simon of the Desert, etc. Imagine Candlemass and Pink Floyd having a drunken brawl over some cheap wine and then writing an album to make amends... The result could well be 'Ultracrepidarian', the first work of TodoMal, a 38-minute journey made up of seven hypnotic tracks full of contrasts and surprises, a mix of gloomy decadence and forceful riffs plagued by exciting and epic passages of enveloping keyboards. 'Ultracrepidarian’ crosses the dark sea of doom metal’s orthodoxy to enter an oceanic chasm of as-yet unknown dimensions. 6 panel Digipack CD