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OZ return with "Forced Commandments"! Roaring guitars, kick-ass solos, catchy lyrics, a driving rhythm section and powerful, sometimes high-pitched vocals will catapult you straight back to the good old days of classic heavy metal! About 2,5 years have passed since the release of their much-acclaimed album "Transition State" - now OZ are back with full force and their new album entitled "Forced Commandments"! The band's 8th studio album sounds fresh and powerful, but OZ still have not forgotten their musical roots. Roaring guitars, kick-ass solos, catchy lyrics, a driving rhythm section and powerful, sometimes high-pitched vocals will catapult you straight back to the good old days of classic heavy metal!

Finnish psychedelic metal titans Oranssi Pazuzu have just announced a new album. Mestarin Kynsi is the band’s first album to be released through Nuclear Blast, and it’s out April 17

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The Opium Cartel is songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Jacob Holm-Lupo’s vehicle for songs that exist somewhere between sophisti-pop, art-rock and synth pop. Holm-Lupo is otherwise known for his progressive rock band White Willow and more recently his instrumental giallo-rock project Telepath. The Opium Cartel’s 3rd album, Valor, is a record about naïve but brave dreams. These are songs about the hubris and optimism of childhood and youth. That period of life where everything seems sure to happen just the way you imagine: You will fall in love with the most beautiful girl in the world and she will love you back. You will become a pilot or an astronaut or defy gravity in some other way. You will explode into a world of color and wonder. You will never be disappointed or let down. You will take every risk without fear of failure. These are also songs about that bittersweet moment when you start to realize that things may be a little different than you imagined. Not all things, but some. Musically the album takes inspiration from a variety of predominantly 1980s sources, from The Blue Nile and Shriekback, via late Roxy Music to the prog-pop of 80s Alan Parsons Project and Camel. The period feel is amplified by Holm-Lupo’s use of exclusively hardware synthesizers iconic to the era, like the Oberheim Matrix-6 and Yamaha DX7.

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All we know is just a drop. What we don‘t know is an ocean. As powerful as a tsunami and as eternal as the deep sea, OCEANS rose from the blackened heart of the void in 2018, embracing despair, wrath and darkness. The sails are set. modern death met

Hailing from the contemplative province of Mjölby, Sweden, their music in contrast speaks volumes. Doom heavy weights OCEAN CHIEF release their sixth studio album, titled Den Tredje Dagen. After 5 years since their last record, this is a heavy ride through the band's sound roots between the psychedelic and doom, with a crisp approach and a new hunger! The four-piece, formed in 2001 by Björn Andersson and Tobias Larsson, evolved their sound in long tracks of perfection.

FOR FANS OF: BREACH, ISIS, TOOL, MASTODON. KARNIVOOL, PINKFLOYD, CULT OF LUNA, RUSSIAN CIRCLES, MONO, OPETH. 180 gram vinyl · 16mm spine triple-gatefold with diecuts on all 6 panels, blind embossing and metallic inks · printed inner sleeve and insert sheet.In the middle of the global pandemic, The Ocean are about to conclude their most engrossing endeavour to date.In 2018, they released Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic - the first half of a sprawling but superbly cohesive palaeontology concept album: Widely hailed as their finest work to date, Phanerozoic I brimmed with moments of wide-eyed melodic brilliance, alongside the expected warping and weaving of post-metal conventions. It entered the official German album charts at #41, while also scoring the band their first significant chart positions in the US, too. In September 2020, The Ocean are poised to release the eagerly-awaited concluding parts of the Phanerozoic journey. Completing the album took longer than expected, because of the band's heavy touring schedule since the release of Phanerozoic I: impressions of these adventures through India, Russia, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Georgia, Australia, New Zealand and Europe are documented in the 130-page Phanerozoic photo-book that will be released along with the vinyl edition of Part II. In contrast with the compositional directness of Phanerozoic I, the new album - Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic - is a vastly more progressive and perverse piece of work. Divided into two sections - Mesozoic and Cenozoic - Phanerozoic II once again showcases the detail and depth that have become two of The Ocean's most enduring trademarks. While ostensibly delving into the extraordinary realities of the Earth's shifting temporal tides, Staps and his comrades have long drawn hazy parallels between their chosen subjects and the emotional experiences that their music strives to convey. Phanerozoic II is essentially an album about time, with some very poignant and pointed allusions to the modern world woven into the new music's spiritual fabric. A profound cautionary tale, Phanerozoic II is underpinned by some of the most imaginative and challenging music that The Ocean - completed by drummer Paul Seidel, keyboard maestro Peter Voigtmann, bassist Mattias Hägerstrand and guitarist David Ramis Ahfeldt - have made yet. Tracked in Iceland, Spain and Germany and produced by esteemed studio guru Jens Bogren, the album is once again blessed with the presence of Jonas Renkse, whose peerless vocals find another sublime backdrop during the second half of mammoth epic Jurassic / Cretaceous. Released into a world in turmoil, Phanerozoic II will provide fans of adventurous and challenging music with all the sonic and philosophical sustenance they have come to expect from this most intuitively progressive German / Swiss / Swedish musicians collective. Founded by guitarist and composer Robin Staps at the dawn of the millennium, The Ocean immediately stood apart. Coalescing around a shared vision of limitless sonic exploration and heaviness delivered straight from the gut, the German ensemble swiftly gained a formidable reputation as standard bearers for the nebulous but unstoppable post-metal movement. Simultaneously revered as one of the most devastating live bands in modern heavy music, The Ocean became a regular fixture on the European festival circuit, appearing on metal festival bills of the likes of Hellfest, Wacken, Resurrection or Summer Breeze as much as on mainstream rock open airs like Roskilde, Dour or Pukkelpop, and tastemaker's indoor boutique festivals like Roadburn or Dunk! Over the course of their storied career, The Ocean have toured Europe and North America with influential artists such as Opeth, Mastodon, Mono, Cult Of Luna, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Anathema, Over the last two decades, the band have been in a perpetual state of evolution, releasing a steady succession of groundbreaking and acclaimed albums that have all sought to push heavy music forward, embracing the cerebral, the primal and the inexplicable in equal measure. From the ominous power and thrumming potential of 2004 debut Fluxion and Metal Blade debut Aeolian, described as...

Limited edition solid-silver vinyl! A raw, sweaty and unforgettable authorized live bootleg from the originators of American Doom Metal in its first incarnations. Led by Wino, the godfather of American Doom Metal, The Obsessed is one of the important bands in the history and evolution of the style. For the band's 40th anniversary in 2020, we proudly present an authorized live bootleg of Wino's favorite show the original lineup ever played. As Wino says, "It's raw and noisy and took some cleanin'up, but here it is. If it ain't heavy, it ain't shit!!!" Tracks 1-9 Recorded Live at the Big Dipper, Beltsville MD, April 29/30, 1983 - Line up Wino: Guitar, Dave 'the Slave' Flood: Drums, Mark 'Professor Dark' Laue: Bass Tracks 10-13 Recorded and engineered by Chris Kozlowski, 1985 - Line up Wino: Guitar, Ed Gulli: Drums, Mark Laue: Bass - Wino's new solo album and the upcoming Obsessed Record Store Day release make this a big year for their music - A raw authorized bootleg live recording of Wino's favorite show ever with the original Obsessed lineup - A must-have for collectors and fans of the band and the style in conjunction with the band's 40th anniversary Press Quotes: 'The career of Wino is a rich and fabled one, and his tentacles of influence weave throughout the arenas of rock, punk and metal.' _Alternative Press 'Wino, what a fucking guitar player, and one of my favorite singers, nothing to prove, just soul-felt vocals.' _Phil Anselmo (Down, Pantera) 'Wino's music has always been so serious, that's the only thing he knows, and he's gonna do it whether or not he makes a million dollars or ten bucks... he means it.' _Pepper Keenan (Corrosion of Conformity) History, Part 1: The Obsessed are a doom metal band originating from Potomac, Maryland. Active initially from 1978 - 1986 and then from 1990 - 1995, they re notable for being Wino's first major band and an iconic outfit in the Maryland doom metal scene and the early doom metal scene as a whole. The band formed originally under the name Warhorse in 1976 in Potomac, Maryland, led by Wino and Mark Laue. In the late 1970s they became known as The Obsessed, performing frequently in Maryland and Washington. Later on the group moved into a band house in Rockville, Maryland where a lot of their material spanning through their existence had been written. Before the intended, original guitar player John Reese departed from the band. The band became a trio and remained that way until the early eighties (i.e., 1982) when Vance Bockis and later Norman Lawson joined the band. During this time they released the Sodden Jackal EP (Spring 1983) and had one track ("Concrete Cancer") featured on Metal Blade's "Metal Massacre VI" compilation. The Obsessed also managed to record their debut album in 1985 for Metal Blade, but it was never officially released. The Obsessed disbanded initially in early 1986 when Wino joined Saint Vitus. The band's final show of their initial run was on 23 November 1985 at The University of Maryland.

Blue black-marbeled vinyl. From the depth of Reykjavik in Iceland emerges NYRST with its blackened creation "ORSÖK", an album that pays homage to the band's grim and icy Icelandic heritage. With "ORSÖK", NYRST, which means "northernmost" in Icelandic, holds true to its name by delivering a debut album filled with a soundscape that is incredibly cold, stark and barren, whilst the lyrics come straight from old horror literature and are laced with cosmic undertones. Formed in the winter of 2013, NYRST released their first demo in 2016. The demo garnered praise for the band’s use of diverse vocals and chilling atmosphere, whilst NYRST’s mystical and haunting stage performances have gained them respect as a live band in the metal scene of their native Iceland. Today’s lineup of Snæbjörn on vocals, guitarists Eysteinn and Davíð, Egill on bass and Sveinbjörn on drums.

At long last, HELLS HEADBANGERS is proud to present a deluxe reissue of NUNSLAUGHTER’s classic Goat on double-LP format. Now featuring new artwork as well as a full bonus album featuring 10 live songs recorded on July 13th, 2003, this is the ultimate edition of the unholy Goat! Released on silver/red vinyl.

Novelists FR have become, in only a few years, a rising star within the progressive metal scene, and it seems they are now ready to confirm it by releasing their highly anticipated third effort in 2020.

New album by Nonexist. Fronted by Dark Tranquility guitarist Johan Reinholdz.

Vintage 14-track collection of self-produced and played material, recorded at Right Track Studios in Cleveland in November 1988. Includes early versions of Down In It, Head Like A Hole, Sin and more.

Their lifespan would be short but not the impact or influence this Swedish band would have on the entire extreme music scene. Sure they were youngsters at the time, but this band would help to cultivate the sound that birthed and initially propelled the now-and-forever signature European death metal sound - one that is still viable and as exciting today.