Valborg – Nekrodepression (Vinyl, LP) Label: Total Dissonance Worship – TDW048 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Red Opaque Country: US Released: Jun 2022 Style: Black Metal, Experimental
Re-release of the 2012 Nekrodepression record, red opaque vinyl in matte varnish jacket. Remastered for vinyl, limited to 150 copies.
Nekrodepression’ is the band’s undeniable breakthrough album and delivers an absolutely primal mix of blackened Doom and Thrash. The mostly German lyrics and signature bellow of Christian Kolf’s vocals only add to the harsh and brute nature of this material. But those who dedicate their time to crack Valborg’s hard and discordant shell will undoubtedly get hooked on the band’s raw, yet anthemic climaxes.
For its 10th anniversary, ‘Nekrodepression’ has been completely remastered and is presented with a fresh take on the original art, which is now more in line with the band’s iconic aesthetic.
For fans of: Eisenvater, Celtic Frost, Type O Negative
Agalloch – The Grey EP Label: Eisenwald Tonschmiede – Eisen151 Format: CD, EP, Reissue Country: Germany Released: 29 Nov 2019 Style: Black Metal, Avantgarde
Remastered re-issue with original artwork and bonustrack.
Eisenwald presents The Grey EP: A collection of destroyed & rebuilt songs from “The Mantle”.
The Grey is the first installment of two companion releases, originally released in 2004. This new edition includes the original artwork and arrives with exclusive bonus track recorded in 2003, that has never been released on any format. créditos se lanzó el 29 de noviembre de 2019
Empyrium – Über Den Sternen (2 × Vinyl) Label: PRO304 LP Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Album, 180g Etching Country: Germany Released: 26 Feb 2021 Style: Symphonic Metal, Neofolk, Black Metal
With their sixth full-length, «Über den Sternen», an allegorical German rendering of their band name meaning «Above the Stars», EMPYRIUM still draw from the magic and spirits of wild places, nature’s beauty, and human relics of ages long past. «Über den Sternen» echoes this reconciliation of the old with the new on a musical level as well. The Franconian duo is putting more emphasis on the electric guitars and harsh vocals again, which marked their first two albums and stood strong upon the band’s melodic black metal foundations. Yet EMPYRIUM also revisit the dark folk style, which the Germans had progressively embraced on their third and fourth albums.
What used to appear to be a crossroad in their musical development has now merged into one breath-taking sound. The combined force of mastermind, multi-instrumentalist, clean and extreme vocalist as well as producer Markus «Schwadorf» Stock and classical singer Thomas Helm, who lends his amazing voice also to the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, is painting a radiant sonic picture. It comes with the melancholic grounding of the sophomore album «Songs of Moors & Misty Fields” (1997), adds brushstrokes of the fairy-tale tempera colours of «Where at Night the Wood Grouse Plays» (1999), and also makes use of a few hues from the palette that DEAD CAN DANCE have infused with world music, which EMPYRIUM have already employed on «The Turn of the Tides» (2014). The crowning varnish is diligently crafted from rougher elements that reach all the way back to the Germans’ legendary debut » A Wintersunset…» (1996). EMPYRIUM have reconciled their early vintage sound with the acoustic expression of later recordings.» Staying true to the Romantic tradition, EMPYRIUM continue to take inspiration for their lyrical flights of fantasy from the local myths, ancient places, and natural wonders of the Rhön Mountains and their Lower Franconian homeland in the West of Germany. A circle is closing, and with EMPYRIUM’s label Prophecy Productions, which were originally founded with the mission to release the band’s debut album, celebrating their 25th anniversary in 2021, it happens in more than one way.
