Фирма Svart Records (Cargo Records)

Psychedelic forest folk band Hexvessel, from Finland, return with their second full-length album! No Holier Temple is the highly anticipated follow up to 2011's critically acclaimed debut album, Dawnbearer, that Roadburn Festival dubbed as "a passionate, urgent and gorgeously strange musical spell. No Holier Temple fuses the acoustic 70s folk vibe of its predecessor into a more psychedelic, electric, doom-folk sound with Manzarek-like keys, screeching rhythmic Velvet Underground violins, Miles Davis trumpets and hypnotic freakouts. Weaving the uncanny songs together are the narrative vocals of Mat McNerney, who on this album has matured into the bastard child of Burke Shelley, young Jon Anderson and Paul Simon. Inspired by the progressive, spaced-out haze of bands like Amon Düül II, Van Der Graaf Generator and Ultimate Spinach, whose song "Your Head Is Reeling" they cover with religious abandon. Their sound now expands outward from their eerie, signature, ritual-esque intros into a genre-twisting cauldron of otherworldly rock and the late-night, dreamy spoken-word of artists such as Jim Morrison (An American Prayer) and Ken Nordine Style: Rock

New album, gatefold jacket, ltd to 500 This is the new studio album "Holy Testament 2", which also acts as a companion piece and a counterpart to 2011's "Holy Testament 1". Both albums also available on CD in a limited package. For over 10 years Sink has Style: Alternative Rock

Style: Alternative Rock

Style: Alternative Rock

Two albums in one package, ltd to 500. For over 10 years Sink has been confusing the black metal, drone and sludge scene. The sound of the band exists somewhere between drone, black metal and dark ambient with a strong presence of experimentation and occa Style: Alternative Rock

Artist: Sink Label: Svart Records (Cargo Records)

Artist: Convulse Label: Svart Records (Cargo Records)

Artist: Convulse Label: Svart Records (Cargo Records)

Artist: Abhorrence Label: 1-2-3-4-GO!

Limited gold vinyl reissue, 500 copies -foil-stamped gatefold jacket, large 12 page booklet Vinyl repress of the long sold out Reverend Bizarre debut album, on gold vinyl and limited to 500 copies. Apart from vinyl color the reissue is 1:1 with the original version - with a 12 page booklet and a foil-stamped gatefold jacket. Style: Metal

Keeping up with the band's tradition to include the word 'death' or 'dead' in their titles, their name of Deathchain's sixth full-length 'Ritual Death Metal' feels like a warning. In the wake of an already impressive 'Death Gods' three years ago, this new offering to the Ancients been recorded last summer with Swedish wünderkid Tore Stjerna in Stockholm in his world-renowned Necromorbus studio where most famously Watain but also Ondskapt, Funeral Mist and many others have sworn a pact with the Great Horned One. Guest starring on the album is one LG Petrov from Entombed, who provides vocals for the track "Like Worms Upon The Lands". Cover art is by Babalon Graphics, other layout work by Costin Chioreanu of Twilight13 Media. As eclectic as the label is, Svart Records have a strong foundation in death metal, having reissued albums by vintage acts like Abhorrence, Xysma and the resuscitated Convulse. However, Deathchain is the first contemporary death metal band operating on the label. Each member sports an impressive curriculum vitae of musical misbehaviours that reads like a who's who of the Finnish extreme metal scene (Forgotten Horror, Demilich, Deathbound, Ajattara, and so on), and the band's two guitarists are already part of the Svart family with Jess and The Ancient Ones. But it's the sheer intensity of its music that has put Deathchain at the top of the foodchain as unlike others, they've taken their time to shed their previous collective skins one by one. And what started off back in 2003 with 'Deadmeat Disciples' as one frantic yet somehow still conventional thrash/death vehicle has now become a decade later an altogether even more unique and ten times more intense beast. "Rebellion. Rebellion and liberty, they've always been at the heart of what we do. During our years as a band we have grown to disrespect all boundaries, and the fire inside burns ever higher", says guitarist Corpse. Defying all categories, "Ritual Death Metal" applies elements from the entire extreme metal spectrum to achieve its pernicious goal, from the doom-laden rumblings of "Like Worms Upon The Land" to the blackish fury of "King Pazuzu". The result is a defiant, gloomy and epic 45 minute tour de force dedicated to summoning ancient Mesopotamian deities. Says Corpse of the theme of the album: "Thematically we have moved closer to the source, and all laughter around it has died. We work on our music and lyrics with the greatest intensity and map our inner beings to find the Lightbringer, who stands beyond everything. On this album we concentrate on the Mesopotamian pandemonium as we examine the different manifestations of the Adversary Style: Metal

Artist: Deathchain Label: Svart Records (Cargo Records)

Artist: Disgrace Label: Import

Style: Metal

Style: Metal

Gatefold jacket, black vinyl ltd to 600 In-Graved, the new band led by former Pentagram and Place of Skulls guitarist Victor Griffin, will release their self-titled debut album in Europe and the U.K. on Friday, March 22 via Finnish label Svart Records and in the U.S. on Tuesday, March 26 via Veritas Records (See album cover attached). The debut self-tilted album was produced by Travis Wyrick (Place of Skulls) and founding guitarist/vocalist Victor Griffin (Death Row, Pentagram, Place of Skulls). The album was recorded at Lakeside Studios in Knoxville,Tennessee and engineered by Travis Wyrick & Mike Dearing (Place of Skulls) with cover art by Richard Schouten (Place of Skulls, Massacre). As previously reported, original drummer of doom-metal legends Trouble, Jeff "Oly" Olson, will play the Hammond organ on the forthcoming debut album and will also feature drummer Pete Campbell (60 Watt Shaman, Place of Skulls), bassists Guy Pinhas (The Obsessed, Acid King, Goatsnake), Ron Holzner (Trouble, Earthen Grave, Debris Inc), Greg Turley (Pentagram), Marty Swaney (Death Row, Pentagram), and Dan Lively (Sweet Cicada), as well as keyboardist Mike Puleo (Orodruin). In-Graved will perform at the Roadburn festival on Saturday, April 20, 2013 in Tilburg, Holland. More tour dates will be announced soon Style: Metal

Stuck up on the icy western coast of Norway, Trondheim might not be the easiest way to embark on intergalactic voyages but it surely does hold an incredibly versatile metal and rock scene whose latest avatar is ready to take you on a hell of a trip. Self-described as a psychedelic doom act inspired by classic stoner bands and 60s and 70s psychedelic rock, High Priest of Saturn are a three piece that consist of guitarist Martin Sivertsen and guitarist-drummer Andreas Hagen's slow-pounding riffs and beats and Merethe Heggset's eerie vocals, which seem to resonate from another dimension. The entire opus then is drenched with swirling, menacing vintage organ sounds, played on the album by Ole Kristian Malmedal. Groovy yet epic (none of the four tracks presented here are below the nine minutes mark!), High Priest of Saturn's debut full-length is a trip. Not only does it fulfill the many promises offered by their 2011 demo (whose two songs have been re-recorded here in even heavier and more mesmerizing versions), but it also propels this trio towards the same league as Sleep and Acid King, towards the sky and beyond Style: Metal

Stuck up on the icy western coast of Norway, Trondheim might not be the easiest way to embark on intergalactic voyages but it surely does hold an incredibly versatile metal and rock scene whose latest avatar is ready to take you on a hell of a trip. Self-described as a psychedelic doom act inspired by classic stoner bands and 60s and 70s psychedelic rock, High Priest of Saturn are a three piece that consist of guitarist Martin Sivertsen and guitarist-drummer Andreas Hagen's slow-pounding riffs and beats and Merethe Heggset's eerie vocals, which seem to resonate from another dimension. The entire opus then is drenched with swirling, menacing vintage organ sounds, played on the album by Ole Kristian Malmedal. Groovy yet epic (none of the four tracks presented here are below the nine minutes mark!), High Priest of Saturn's debut full-length is a trip. Not only does it fulfill the many promises offered by their 2011 demo (whose two songs have been re-recorded here in even heavier and more mesmerizing versions), but it also propels this trio towards the same league as Sleep and Acid King, towards the sky and beyond Style: Metal

Artist: In-Graved Label: Svart Records (Cargo Records)

Gatefold, 20 page booklet, black vinyl ltd 400 Kuudes Tunti is the most important Finnish gothic rock band of the 80's, along with Musta Paraati. The double vinyl set consists of the original studio LP from 1984 plus 9 unreleased bonus tracks, including the shelved 7". Also features a 20-page booklet with unseen photos and an extensive essay on the band. Style: Metal