Bathory - Under The Sign Of The Black Mark (1987) Repress [2014]

 

Under the Sign of the Black Mark is the third studio album by Swedish extreme metal band Bathory. It was recorded in September 1986 and released on 11 May 1987 through New Renaissance Records and Under One Flag. It was a key album in the development of the black metal genre, and greatly influenced the Norwegian black metal scene that emerged in the early 1990s.

The photograph on the cover was by Gunnar Silins, from a photograph in the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm. The model used was Leif Ehrnborg, a then-top class Swedish bodybuilder.

The song "Woman of Dark Desires" is a tribute to the band's namesake, Elizabeth Báthory. "Enter the Eternal Fire" was the band's first epic, reaching nearly seven minutes in length, with lyrics referring to a deal with the Devil. The song "Equimanthorn" makes references to Hell as well as to Norse mythology, including Odin's "eight-legged black stallion" Sleipnir.

Fenriz of Darkthrone called the album "the quintessential black metal album". He also cited it as a musical inspiration for the 1995 Darkthrone album Panzerfaust, besides Celtic Frost's Morbid Tales and Vader's Necrolust demo.

The song "Call from the Grave" was featured in 2009 game Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned.

-Tracklist:

 Side A - Darkness:
A1. Nocternal Obeisance     01:28     
A2. Massacre     02:39     
A3. Woman of Dark Desires     04:06   
A4. Call from the Grave     04:53     
A5. Equimanthorn     03:42
     
Side B - Evil:
B1. Enter the Eternal Fire     06:57   
B2. Chariots of Fire     02:47     
B3. 13 Candles     05:17   
B4. Of Doom......     03:45

B5. Outro     00:25

 

 

-Line up:

• Quorthon (R.I.P. 2004): Vocals, guitars, bass, keyboards, songwriting, lyrics
• Paul Lundburg: Drums.

 

 

Label: Black Mark Production.

 Recorded at Heavenshore Studio, Stockholm, Sweden in September 1986.
Mixed at Heavenshore Studio, Stockholm, Sweden.

180g vinyl and insert.

Track B5 not listed on album jacket or label.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 In order to make The Beast more noticeable on the album cover, the center piece of the shot had to be enlarged to quite such an extent vast parts of the set had to be left out of the album cover.

 

 

Immortal - Battles In The North (1995) Reissue [2015]

Battles in the North is the third studio album by Norwegian black metal band Immortal. It was released on May 15, 1995 through Osmose Productions. It picks up where its predecessor, Pure Holocaust, left off, featuring extreme tempos, low-fidelity production, and lyrics about coldness or wintery landscapes. This is the first album where the concept of Blashyrkh becomes a central focus. The last album to feature Abbath on drums.

The songs "Cursed Realms of the Winterdemons" and "Circling Above in Time Before Time" reference The Underdark, a setting from Dungeons and Dragons.

Music videos were made for "Blashyrkh (Mighty Ravendark)" and "Grim and Frostbitten Kingdoms", the latter featuring Hellhammer on drums, who also became the band's touring drummer during this period.

Immortal's primary members have never been involved in the more controversial activities of some of their contemporaries in the second wave of black metal. Their lyrics have also never involved the religious or political ideologies often associated with the scene to any great extent, instead being concerned with darkness and evil in a fantasy setting.

-Tracklist:

Side A:
1. Battles in the North     04:12
2. Grim and Frostbitten Kingdoms     02:47
3. Descent into Eminent Silence     03:10
4. Throned by Blackstorms     03:39
5. Moonrise Fields of Sorrow     02:25

Side B:
6. Cursed Realms of the Winterdemons     03:59
7. At the Stormy Gates of Mist     03:00
8. Through the Halls of Eternity     03:36
9. Circling Above in Time Before Time     03:56
10. Blashyrkh (Mighty Ravendark)     04:34

 

-Line up:

- Demonaz: Guitars, songwriting (tracks 1-7, 10), lyrics (tracks 1-8, 10)
- Abbath: Vocals, bass, drums, guitars (lead) (track 4), lyrics (track 9), songwriting (tracks 1-5, 7-10)

 

 

 

Abbath & Demonaz

Recorded and mixed in Grieghallen Studio, September 1994.

 Music videos were made for "Blashyrkh (Mighty Ravendark)" and "Grim and Frostbitten Kingdoms".
All lyrics by Demonaz, except "Circling Above in Time Before Time" by Abbath.

Exclusively "Battled" by Abbath and Demonaz.
Executive production: Osmose Productions '95.

From L to R: Demonaz, Abbath, Grim.

 

 

Brujeria - Matando Güeros (1993)

 

Brujeria is a Mexican extreme metal band formed in Tijuana, Mexico in 1989. Their name comes from the Spanish word for "witchcraft". Their songs, which are sung in Spanish, are focused on Satanism, anti-Christianity, sex, immigration, narcotics smuggling, and politics. Portraying a Mexican image and with a heavy anti-American stance, the majority of the band's members are Mexican-born, with some being American, Swedish or British.

Brujeria alumni include Fear Factory guitarist Dino Cazares and drummer Raymond Herrera, as well as Billy Gould, Nicholas Barker, Jeff Walker and Shane Embury. They perform under pseudonyms and portray themselves as a Latino band consisting of drug lords, concealing their identities due to being wanted by the FBI. In videos and photographs of the band, they are shown wearing bandanas, balaclavas, serapes, and are often shown wielding machetes.

-Tracklist:

1. Pura de venta     00:41
2. Leyes narcos     01:09
3. Sacrificio     01:16
4. Santa Lucía     00:43
5. Matando güeros     02:24
6. Seis seis seis     01:19
7. Cruza la frontera     01:44
8. Greñudos locos     01:27
9. Chingo de mecos     01:16
10. Narcos-satánicos     01:50
11. Desperado     02:41
12. Culeros     00:51
13. Misas negras (Sacrificio III)     01:20
14. Chinga tu madre     03:11
15. Verga del brujo / Están chingados     03:43
16. Molestando niños muertos     02:57
17. Machetazos (Sacrificio II)     01:27
18. Castigo del brujo     01:44
19. Cristo de la roca     01:12

 

-Line up:

- Juan Brujo: Vocals
- Pinche Peach: Samples, Vocals (additional)
- Asesino: Guitars
- Hongo: Guitars, bass
- Güero sin Fe: Bass
- Fantasma: Bass, vocals
- Greñudo: Drums
- Jr. Hocicon: "Director diabólico".

 

 

 

Label: Roadrunner Records.

This is the only pure grindcore full-length album released by Brujeria, as later albums show a more death/groove sound.
"Güero" is a Mexican slang term for a pale-skinned or blonde-haired person, specifically used as a slur for US citizens of white/caucasian race.
Track 16 to 19 are remastered tracks off the "Machetazos" single.
The official line-up for the album credits Jr. Hocicon (Jello Biafra) as "Director diabolico" which means "Diabolic director"; it is implied that he was either the producer or exectutive producer for the album.
"Matando Güeros" is one of the songs to the "Gummo" soundtrack.
Upon the album's release there were many censoring issues with some stores in the U.S. and Europe due to its shocking content and graphic front cover. Roadrunner released a censored version with the cover showing just the name of the band and album title on a black background, although the original cover can be found in the inside booklet.
The decapitated head shown on the album cover became a well-known gimmick for the band, which they used as a mascot named "Coco Loco" (meaning "Crazy Head") and was widely featured in t-shirts, flyers and mech associated with Brujeria.

 

EL MACABRO ORIGEN DEL COCO LOCO

 1993. La historia que siempre se manejó de la macabra fotografía de este personaje y lo que se empezaba a comentar entre la gente, apuntaba a que un pobre desconocido había sido secuestrado, asesinado, quemado y descuartizado por una enigmática banda que radicaba en la frontera (de la que no se sabía casi nada. Eran los 90's y el acceso a internet para conocer algo era bastante limitado, no como hoy día) que tocaban Deathgrind Metal mientras hacían rituales de santería negra y que decidieron tomarle fotos a su cabeza decapitada y ponerla como trofeo para la portada de su disco larga duración, lo cual se pasaba de boca en boca alimentando la leyenda día a día.

 Todo esto no era tan conocido más que en el mundo metalero underground aunque ya había alarmado a algunas gentes y autoridades hasta que un día, fue lanzado un reportaje dentro del noticiero "Ocurrió Así", donde se investigaba la desaparición de un tal Mario Ríos y de su mujer, Alma Ruíz y dónde se menciona que la cabeza que aparecía en la portada "del disco de un grupo llamado Brujería" podría ser la del Mario Ríos que andaban buscando, vinculando a la banda a su desaparición, y esto hizo que se detonara más lo oscuro detrás de la misteriosa banda y su portada, y por ende, se regara como pólvora por todo el mundo.
 En fin, habían creado con éxito un monstruo bastante oscuro que se iba alimentando más y más. Una verdadera Creepypasta noventera con wevos y chingona, que si llegó a hacer que la gente se cagara, no como lo que se presenta hoy día...

 Todo eso fue una leyenda creada de muchos elementos. La verdadera historia de cómo esa foto llegó a ser la portada del Matando Güeros, emitida por el mismo Juan Brujo, dicta que un día, entró a una liquor store y lo primero que vio fue una Revista Alarma (DATO: siempre se ha pensado que fue una ''Alarma'', pero en realidad era otra publicación amarillista similar de nombre "Revista Peligro!" donde originalmente la historia era acerca de un tipo borracho que cayó en las vías de tren y murió decapitado) en dónde venía la foto que todos conocemos, y al quedar impactado también con la brutal imagen, el Brujo se comunicó con la editorial para que le vendieran el original, lo cual al principio se negaron, hasta que negoció ofreciendo U$300 satánicos y de inmediato se la enviaron vía FedEx y de ahí para la legendaria portada de uno de los discos más icónicos, crudos, brutales y únicos de Deathgrind Metal que han existido en la historia de la humanidad.

Dato extra: De ahí Juan Brujo aprendió más español, de leer Alarmas.
 MATANDO GÜEROS POR VIDA. NO VA A HABER OTRO, NO ACEPTAN IMITACIONES.

 

 

 

  

 

Sepulcration - Undead Rising [EP] (2019)

Formed in the mind 2015.

The project is mainly focused on the death metal music genre, but inspired as well on Black Metal with some obscure and dark passages and cruel atmospheres.

 Lyrical themes: Terror, Death, Occultism, Blasphemy.

 

 

-Tracklist:

 1. Intro   01:05
2. Coffin Land     03:44
3. Undead Rising   03:13
4. Boneworms   04:59
5. The Tall Man   05:02

 

-Line up:

• David Vaquero ''Daviti'': Bass, drum prog.
• Oscar Calvo ''NecronoiD'': Guitars
• Eduarth Coprorator: Vocalas.

 

 

 

Label: Independent.

Recorded & mixed at NetherRealm Productions in spring 2019 by David Vaquero ''Davith''.

Mastered at Moontower Studios by Javier Felez.

Cover artwork by Igor Mugerza.

Desing by Oscar Calvo ''NecrovoiD''

Band photo by Daniela Paz.

Al music & lyricswritten by Sepulcration.

 

 

 

 

Belphegor - The Last Supper / Blutsabbath [Compilation] (2004)

Belphegor was founded in 1993 and spread like a virus within the underground. Meanwhile, their ''Bloodbath In Paradise'' demo has become legendary and paved the baleful path into the souls of thousands of listeners. Anti-religious with nihilistic tendencies as well as provocative topics, Belphegor moved on. The debut album ''The Last Supper'' (1995) let the community of followers and opponents grow. Inexorably, the band pushes their destructive ways forward in the following years. Belphegor become louder, more obsessed and more dynamic, and their albums now have cult status. To think about the scene doesn't work without thinking of Belphegor. In 2008, the band sent their followers to the edge of hell with ''Bondage Goat Zombie'' and sparked an all-consuming Death Metal fire with blasting black metal influences. This masterpiece, inspired by the Marquis de Sade, is one of the most demanding works the genre has offered to this day. Belphegor showed themselves equally brutal and baleful on the successors ''Walpurgis Rites-Hexenwahn'' (2009) and ''Blood Magick Necromance'' (1011)

-Tracklist:

CD 1: The Last Supper

1-1 The Last Supper     3:57
1-2 A Funeral Without A Cry     4:53
1-3 Impalement Without Mercy     3:44
1-4 March Of The Dead     4:57
1-5 The Rapture Of Cremation     3:55
1-6 Engulfed In Eternal Frost     3:39
1-7 D.I.E.     3:34
1-8 In Remembrance Of Hate And Sorrow     4:59
1-9 Bloodbath In Paradise (Part II)     3:01
1-10 Kruzifixion     4:09

    Bonustrax: Obscure & Deep / 7-inch Vinyl, 1994
1-11 Obscure And Deep     4:30
1-12 Bloodstained Ritual     2:59

CD 2: Blutsabbath
2-1 Abschwörung     3:40
2-2 Blackest Ecstasy     4:07
2-3 Purity Through Fire     3:07
2-4 Behind The Black Moon     3:03
2-5 Blutsabbath     5:58
2-6 No Resurrection     3:48
2-7 The Requiem Of Hell     4:14
2-8 U.D.G.     3:03
2-9 Path Of Sin     4:57

Bonustrax:
2-10 Purity Through Fire (Live Version)     3:02
2-11 Swarm Of Rats     4:53

-Line up:

The Last Supper:

- Helmuth: Guitars
- Maxx: Bass, vocals
- Chris: Drums
- Sigurd: Guitars (lead)

Blutsabbath:

- Helmuth: Vocals, guitars
- Sigurd: Guitars (lead)
- Mario "Marius" Klausner: Bass

Label: Twilight Vertrieb.

 

 Compiles "The Last Supper" & "Blutsabbath" with the "Obscure and Deep" EP and two extra tracks.
The song "Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath" (Black Sabbath cover) follows "Bloodstained Ritual" and 1:15 of silence.

2-11 is a newly recorded "pre-production" track from Goatreich Fleshcult.

 The Last Supper:
Recorded and mixed as Stage One studio, Bassel / Germany Sept. '94 except 'Kruzifixion', (first appeared on their Demo Feb. '91), new arranged and recorded at Studio 5/ Austria
Blutsabbath:
Produced, engineered, mixed and mastered at Big Apple Studios, Salzburg in April '97
Re-mastered at Mastersoundstudio, Stuttgart, Nov. 04 by Alex Krull.

 

SWR Barroselas Metalfest 26.04.2013 (Por)

Suffocation - Pinnacle Of Bedlam (2013)

Suffocation are widely recognized major innovators of death metal. They had a massive influence on the genre and pioneered the balance between brutal and technical sounds commonly heard in modern death metal. Frank Mullen is considered as one of the most emblematic death metal vocalists as well as one of the first to use a very deep "death growl" vocal style.

There was an earlier "incarnation" of Suffocation existing from 1988 to around 1990 which featured vocalist Frank Mullen, bassist Josh Barohn, guitarists Guy Marchais and Todd German and Barohn's friend on drums. By 1990, the band had hired guitarists Terrance Hobbs and Doug Cerrito along with drummer Mike Smith, members of the local band Mortuary which had already disbanded.

The band split-up after Despise the Sun and reformed in 2002 with some line-up changes. Doug Cerrito was asked to join when the band reformed, but apparently he wasn't interested. Mike Smith left the band again in 2012 due to personal differences with other members and was replaced by Dave Culross (who had previously played with the band on Despise the Sun). Culross was later replaced by Kevin Talley.

-Tracklist:

Side A:
1. Cycles of Suffering     03:56
2. Purgatorial Punishment    02:45
3. Eminent Wrath     03:40
4. As Grace Descends     03:05
5. Sullen Days     04:57

Side B:
6. Pinnacle of Bedlam     03:43
7. My Demise     04:04
8. Inversion     03:50
9. Rapture of Revocation   03:49
10. Beginning of Sorrow   04:33

 

-Line up:

 • Guy Marchais: Guitars, songwriting (tracks 2, 7, 9)

• Derek Boyer: Songwriting (tracks 8, 9), lyrics (tracks 1-8), bass

• Frank Mullen: Vocals, lyrics (track 9)
• Terrance Hobbs: Guitars, Lyrics (tracks 5, 6), songwriting (tracks 1-6, 8, 9)
• Dave Culross: Drums.

 

 

 

Label: Nuclear Blast.

 

 Recorded at Full Force Studio .

Artwork by Raymond Swanland.

Mixed & mastered by Zeuss.

"Beginning of Sorrow" is a re-recorded song from the Breeding the Spawn album.
This is not a full concept album but is inspired by the Tibetan Book of the Dead and the cycles of life and death.

 Produced by Joe Cincotta and Suffocation at Full Force Studios in New York.

Limited to 1000 orange with black splatter vinyl (Nuclear Blast mailorder exclusive).

 

 

Entombed - Clandestine (1991) Reissue [1999]

 

Clandestine is the second studio album by Swedish death metal band Entombed. It was released on November 12, 1991, in Europe, and on February 11, 1992, in North America. It helped establish a distinctively Swedish sound in the death metal genre. This is the only Entombed album on which original vocalist L.G. Petrov does not appear.
Prior to the recording of Clandestine, Petrov was fired from the band due to personal disputes. The vocals on the album were recorded by Andersson instead, and for the tour following the album's release in 1991, the band hired vocalist Johnny Dordevic, previously a member of the band Carnage.

 

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-Tracklist:

1. Living Dead     04:26
2. Sinners Bleed     05:11
3. Evilyn     05:05
4. Blessed Be     04:47
5. Stranger Aeons     03:25
6. Chaos Breed     04:53
7. Crawl     06:14
8. Severe Burns     04:01
9. Through the Collonades     05:38

 

-Line up:

• Nicke Andersson: Drums, vocals, songwriting, lyrics
• Alex Hellid: Guitars (lead), lyrics
• Ulf "Uffe" Cederlund: Guitars, vocals (backing), songwriting
• Lars Rosenberg: Bass, songwriting.

 

 

 

Label: Earache Records.

Recorded at Sunlight Studios, Stockholm, Sweden, 1991.
Co-produced/engineered by Entombed.

Photo by Lundberg Photographic Studio.
Ddrums were used for parts of the drum set.
Even though the booklet says that Johnny Đorđević was the singer on this album, it was Nicke Andersson who recorded the vocals.
A music video was made for the song "Stranger Aeons".
Only the American versions and the vinyl versions have the red logo, the LP has the logo, skull and album title embossed. The CD was originally only with the black logo shown here but later this CD was reissued with the yellow logo. A limited edition was released with an embossed cover.

Artwork front cover by Dan Seagrave.