• Distribution,  Vinyl

    Darkher – Realms

    febrero 1, 2025

    Darkher – Realms (Vinyl, LP)
    Label: Prophecy Productions – PRO187LP
    Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition
    Country: UK & Europe
    Released: Aug 19, 2016
    Style: Goth Rock, Ethereal

    The long-awaited debut album

    DARKHER is an intriguing, haunting trip through the mind and spirit of UK artist J. Maiven a West Yorkshire-based vocalist / songwriter whose powerful, captivating music is characterised by doom-laden riffs, haunting, spine-tingling vocals, soul baring songs, layered with storm clouds of Guitars. Creating extraordinarily dark music full of contrasts, including both chilling loneliness and the warmth of hope, the sound of DARKHER is veined by both an unsettling atmosphere of encroaching dread and a deep, otherworldly confidence.
    DARKHER’s first release, ‘The Kingdom Field’ EP (2014), epitomized her broodingly intense music and created a stir across scenes, being hailed as «beautiful, teeth-edging horror» and «utterly brilliant». Her debut album, ‘Realms’, impressively proves that the fire of great expectations raised by the debut’s spark were more than justified. The album features nine distinctive, dynamic and dramatic tracks that are impossible to resist. Songs such as the sternly imploring «Moths», the driving «Wars», with its signature drum march, or the sinister, unfathomable ‘Buried’ or ‘Foregone’ may be mentioned as cornerstones of an album that, due to its quality and diversity, bears the potential earmarks of a future classic.
    Lyrically, ‘Realms’ mirrors the ominous, awe-inspiring character of the music; the tales on the album lie somewhere between this sphere and the unseen worlds before and beyond. DARKHER’s songs reveal her relationship with fear, death and spirituality and question how love can connect souls from past, present and future.
    «At times, I witnessed happenings,» She points out with respect to the title. «Amidst the immense sadness brought upon by grief, these signs were both uplifting and magical, and this compounded my belief in other ‘Realms'»

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  • Distribution,  Vinyl

    Jarboe – Sacrificial Cake

    marzo 2, 2024

    Jarboe – Sacrificial Cake
    Label: The Circle Music – TCM019LP
    Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Deluxe Edition, Limited Edition, Reissue, Remastered, Lavender, Gatefold, Tip On Sleeve
    Country: Greece
    Released: 2022
    Style: Abstract, Goth Rock, Avantgarde

    1995. Four years since the solo album ‘Thirteen Masks’, Jarboe who is at the same time working in Swans, created the album ‘Sacrificial Cake’ which was recorded in New York’s East Village at the studio of multi instrumentalist Lary Seven. Swans founder, Michael Gira simultaneously releases his album, ‘Drainland’.

    In the 16 songs on ‘Sacrificial Cake’, even more sides of Jarboe’s creativity are revealed. A mysterious and magical atmosphere surrounds the entire album of fantasy tales in spooky sounds such as “The Body Lover” and “Troll” and at times with dark tribal rhythms as in “Ode To V”.

    The mystagogy begins with the “Lavender Girl” of smoke and desire followed by the undulating “Ode to V”. The journey through Jarboe’s dreams and nightmares has begun.

    “Troll Lullaby” (a terrifying childhood vision), “My Buried Child” (a live recording accompanied by Michael Gira on acoustic guitar), “Surgical Saviour” (perversity in an industrial style ), “Deflowered” (a deliberately ironic rock song spoofing the music industry).

    “Troll” the ending track extends an invitation to experience it in low light or with headphones while next to a camp fire in the woods.

    ‘Sacrificial Cake’ is alive. We are proud to release this legendary album for first time on vinyl -on it’s own- and with new mastering, new lay out, luxurious packaging and of course in the color of lavender dedicated to the “Lavender Girl”.

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  • Distribution,  Vinyl

    Bethlehem – Mein Weg

    febrero 15, 2024

    Bethlehem – Mein Weg (2 x Vinyl)
    Label: Prophecy Productions – PRO 107LP
    Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue
    Country: Germany
    Released: Jul 8, 2022
    Style: Doom Metal, Goth Rock

    Experimental Black/Doom Metal band from Grevenbroich, Germany, active since 1991. They call their style «Dark metal», which is the term they coined in the debut album title.

    Until Dictius Te Necare, Bethlehem faced censorship and was even banned from playing in some German cities. It started when Matton gave one copy of their first demo to a 14-year-old boy. After a while his mother started to call the band, saying that because of their music, her son became aggressive and built a «Satanic altar» in his room. In cooperation with other parents, they started a crusade against Bethlehem and their «satanic» music (ironically, Bethlehem were never satanic).

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