Horna - Viha Ja Viikate [EP] (2003)

 

Horna was formed in late 1993 under the name Shadowed, by vocalist and guitarist Shatraug and guitarist Moredhel. The name was changed to Horna when drummer Gorthaur joined the band in 1994. Horna did not start recording until early 1995.
 The first demo, Varjoissa, was released in September that year and sold out. In 1996, Nazgul von Armageddon took over vocal duties and the band recorded their first full-length album Hiidentorni in January 1997, resulting in a deal with the Greek label Solistitium Records. The band continued to release albums under this label through June 1998, when Moredhel and bassist Skratt left the band. Bassist Thanatos replaced Skratt soon afterwards, and Moredhel re-joined that August.
 In 1999, the band signed to Norwegian label Oskorei Productions for a vinyl-only release of the band's third album, Haudankylmyyden Mailla, and the band released a series of limited vinyl-only EPs and split albums through most of the early 2000s, with full-length studio albums coming out in the latter half of the decade. In 2002, Nazgul von Armageddon left the band, leaving vocal duties to Corvus.
 In July 2003, it was announced that guitarist Aarni T. Otava had left the group. Horna cited the loss of "dedication" as the reason behind his departure, and revealed that Horna's performance at 2003's Tuska Open Air Metal Festival would be their last with Otava handling guitar duties. In 2008 Horna embarked on an American tour. They played their first American show on Halloween 2008 at "The Black Castle" courtesy of underground promoter Chris "Hate War" Wood.

-Tracklist:

1. Viha ja viikate     03:15
2. Ars Laternarum     04:31
3. Mustasiipinen     04:18
4. Kun 1000 kuuta on kiertänyt (Carpathian Forest cover)     03:33

 

-Line up:

- Shatraug: Guitars, Lyrics
- Gorthaur: Drums
- Infection: Bass
- Corvus: Vocals
- A.T. Otava: Guitars.

 

 

 

Label: Woodcut Records.

Track 4 is a cover of 'When Thousand Moons Have Circled' by Carpathian Forest translated to Finnish.

Recorded and mixed at the Boneyard on the thresholds of summer 2003.
Mastered at Finnvox 06.06.2003.

Satanic Warmaster - Strength & Honour (2001) Remastered [2014]

 

Strength and Honour was released in November 2001 through Northern Heritage. It was reissued twice by Northern Heritage in 2003 and 2004, both pressings limited to 1000 copies. The original LP version comes with a bonus track, officially untitled, also referred to as "Legion Werewolf". The keyboard outro to "Night of Retribution" was originally intended to be the intro for Satanic Warmaster's unreleased "Black Metal Kommando" debut album. The album intro is an uncredited piece taken from the SPK album Zamia Lehmanni: Songs of Byzantine Flowers. The album cover features the “Spirit of Wolf” emblem by the band Black Draugwath. Satanic Warmaster apologized years later for the mistake.

 

NH-016B

 

-Tracklist:

Side A:
1.  Raging Winter     04:47
2.  A New Black Order     07:00
3.  The Burning Eyes of the Werewolf     04:57
4.   Strength and Honour     05:12

Side B:
5.  Wolves of Blood and Iron     05:47
6.  Der schwarze Orden     04:29
7.  Night of Retribution     03:54
8.  Legion Werwolf     03:20

 

-Line up:

  ┼ Werwolf : Vocals, bass, drums, keyboards, lyrics
 ┼ Lord War Torech: Guitars.

 

 

Label: Northern Heritage Records.

This uses the audio from the 2007 remastered version. This version has never been on vinyl before.
Recorded during winter 2000-2001 Anno Satanas.

 

 

 

Werwolf                                                                      -|-                                                 Lord War Torech

 

Archgoat - The Light-Devouring Darkness (2009) [Reissue] (2016)

Archgoat is a Finnish black/death metal band formed in 1989 by brothers Ritual Butcherer on guitar and Lord Angelslayer on bass and vocals. The members of Archgoat openly identify with the philosophy of Satanism and the Occult as expressed in their lyrical content, which also consists of anti-Christian themes.
Archgoat formed in 1989 in Turku, Finland, though they did not release their first recording, titled Jesus Spawn, until 1991. Then in 1992, the band landed a record contract with Necropolis Records. In 1993, their EP, Angelcunt (Tales of Desecration), was released. Later that year, Archgoat entered into a full-time studio deal with Necropolis. However, after their recording sessions, a disagreement with terms of their contract resulted in the band refusing to release the finished material to the public.
In 1993, Archgoat began an extensive hiatus, citing their belief that they did not belong in a “commercial” black metal scene. The band did not reform until 2004, when they released their 1993 material as a 7″ EP, titled Angelslaying Black Fucking Metal, through Hammer of Hate Records. Their show, First Live Black Mass, concert was recorded in Finland in 2005.  Drummer Sinister Karppinen became the band’s permanent drummer in this time. Their debut LP Whore of Bethlehem was released in September 2006, and they embarked on a European tour in spring 2007 with Black Witchery. A live split of this tour was released as Desecration & Sodomy in 2008.

-Tracklist:

Side A:
1. Intro: 3rd Invocation   01:04    
2. Apotheosis of Lucifer   02:43    
3. Tribulation of the King of Worms  02:49
4. Goat and the Moon     03:58    
5. Sodomator of the Doomed Venus   02:35

Side B:
6. The Light-Devouring Darkness   03:41
7. Blessed in Beast's Blood     03:03
8. Worms Born of Martyrdom     02:58
9. Fornicated Messiah     03:34
10. The Dawn of the Antichrist     03:32

-Line up:

 • Lord Angelslayer: Bass, Vocals
• Ritual Butcherer: Guitars
• Sinisterror: Drums.

Label: Debemur Morti Productions..

This reissue, on black vinyl,with A2 poster of the original artwork and 12"x12" booklet glued inside the gatefold. 

 Comes with revised front cover according to Archgoat's instructions

 Artwork by Chris Moyen.

 

Belial & Demigod - Invokation From The Pit... Saatana Palvonta Munaa!!! [split] (2010)

B E L I A L

Belial were a Finnish death metal band active from 1991 to 1995. They released 2 albums, 2 EPs and 2 demos. In their earlier work they played a more traditional style of death metal with black metal influences.

The 500 copies of the original pressing of the Gods of the Pit demo tape sold out and gave the band cult status in the underground. This resulted in the re-release of the demo, entitled Gods of the Pit pt. 2 (Paragon So Below). However, the re-release and the original demo are two different items as they have different track lists with the exception of the first two tracks.

Belial started as a black/death metal band. With the loss of guitarist Jukka Valppu, the band headed in a more progressive rock/punk direction. The album 3 features material drastically different than that which appeared on the first releases and is considered gothic rock/punk. The album's title is also a nod to Led Zeppelin, as rather than naming the release, they dubbed it 3 since it was their third album.

Three of Belial's members were involved at grunge rock band named Autumnfire in 1994/95. These were Jarno Anttila, Reima Kellokoski & Jani Lehtosaari and they've done one promo demo in 1994.

D E M I G O D

Demigod are a death metal band formed in 1990 in Loimaa, Finland. They were a popular group in the death metal underground of the 1990s; however, despite a steady status and a healthy number of gigs, the band split up in the mid-90s. The band's debut album Slumber of Sullen Eyes is highly regarded in the heavy metal community.

Demigod re-formed in 1998 and was eventually signed by Spikefarm, a sublabel of major Finnish metal record company Spinefarm, who released the band's second album Shadow Mechanics.

Somewhere between 2002 and 2006, this co-operation came to an end, and the band recorded the follow-up to Shadow Mechanics without a label. The recordings were finished in the summer of 2006, and the album was released by the band's own label, Open Game Productions, in 2007. Since late 2007, worldwide distribution has been handled by the Spanish label Xtreem Music, leaving only the Scandinavian market for the band's own label. Xtreem Music has also re-released the debut album, previously long out of print.

In 2012, Esa Linden and several of the other "Slumber of Sullen Eyes" members took part in several reunion shows.

-Tracklist:

-Line up:

Belial:

 • Reima: Drums
 • Jarno: Vocals
 • Jarno: Guitars
 • Jani: Bass
 • Jukka: Guitars.

Demigod:

 • Esa Lindén: Guitars, Vocals
 • Tero Laitinen: Bass
 • Seppo Taatila: Drums.

 

 

Tuska & Incriminated - Ten Hail Marys [Split] (2003)

TUSKA

Tuska is Finnish for "Agony".

  - Saasta (EP 2001)     
- Raato (EP 2001)     
- Orjuus (EP 2001)     
- Käärmeys (EP 2002)     
- Ten Hail Marys (Split 2003)
- Kyrvästettyjen raatojen metsä (Compilation 2013)

 

 INCRIMINATED

- Incriminated / Fulcrum Creak (Split 1998)    
- Ride of the Grotesque     (Demo 1999)    
- Illusion of Love (EP 2001)    
- Dark Perversions / Nuclear Winter (Split 2001)    
- Incriminated / Bloodhammer (Split 2001)
- Miracle of Purity (2002)
- Ride of the Tyrants (2003)    
- Primitive Finland (Split 2003)    
- Ten Hail Marys (Split 2003)
- Hypocricide (EP 2004)
- Kings of Misery (2004)
- Orgy of the Perverted (Compilation 2005)    
- The Promise of Worse to Come (2006)
- Throneum / Incriminated (Split 2006)
- Warriors of Fire and Hell (Split 2006)    
- Summon the Wolf / The Cult (Split 2006)    
- Barbatos / Incriminated (Split 2007)    
- Death Nöize (EP 2009)    
- Possessed in Billnäs - Live (2009)

 

 

-Tracklist:

Side A:
1. Tuska - Tuska Raatelee     01:43    
2. Tuska - Kyrpääjä     01:49    
3. Tuska - Pahan Hengen Nimeen     01:20    
4. Tuska - Sadonisti     01:30    
5. Tuska - Manala     03:10    
6. Tuska - Kuolema Kouluttaa*        
7. Tuska - Verikosto*        
8. Tuska - Jehovan Raiskattu Perse*    
   
Side B:
9. Incriminated - Lleh Ot     00:28    
10. Incriminated - The Might     01:52    
11. Incriminated - The True Trinity     04:24    
12. Incriminated - Deathfuck Hellburst     01:32    
13. Incriminated - Soldiers of Dark Resistance     02:14    
14. Incriminated - Times Once Forgotten**        
15. Incriminated - Thermonuclear Devastation (Live)***

 

-Line up:

Incriminated:

- Harald Mentor: Bass, Vocals, Drums
- Werwolf: Drums (on bonus tracks)
- Susej: Guitars.

Tuska:

- Tarmo T: Bass
- Urho T: Guitars
- Yrjö T: Drums
- Matti T: Vocals. 

 

 

 

Label: Metallatria Distribution.

 

 Copies are hand-numbered.

 

 * & ** = bonus tracks for vinyl and cassette.

 
*** = exclusive live track in cassette version only.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Adramelech - Psychostasia (1996)

 

Adramelech,  the Chancellor of Hell, President of the Senate of the demons and supervisor of Satan's wardrobe.

Adramelech is an Assyrian sun god. Adramelech became depicted later (like many other pagan gods) as a demon in Judaeo-Christian tradition. He's described as the president of the senate of demons, chancellor of Hell and supervisor of Satan's wardrobe in Collin de Plancy's Dictionnaire Infernal. In Milton's Paradise Lost, Adramelech is a fallen angel.

Most lyrics are/were written by Turkka G. Rantanen, whose also done all of the artwork/layouts and happens to also be Jarkko Rantanen's brother.

When the band contained both Jarkko Rantanen & Seppo Taatila, the drums/guitar duties were often alternated between the two.

 Adramelech...Unquestionably one of the originators of the old-school finnish death metal sound was formed in 1991 by Jarkko Rantanen in Loimaa, Finland - population 7000. Influenced by such bands as Morbid Angel, Deicide, Bolt Thrower, Grave, Sinister, Vader and Carcass, throughout it's career, Adramelech was constantly troubled by the ongoing line-up changes, but managed to pull out a decent catalogue of death metal releases through out the years. Lyrically dealing with ancient mythology Adramelech was shadowed by more succesfull finnish bands such as Amorphis, Demigod, Impaled Nazarene and Mordicus, instead it lurked in the shadows making it's name in underground circles. At first, wearing the status of "little brother of Demigod", which members appeared on the line up, Adramelech released a rehearsal tape "Human Extermination" and a demo "Grip of Darkness" (1992). Soon they got signed to Adipocere Records (Fra) which released it's first official release "Spring of Recovery 7" (1992). The first long creative break followed, forcing members to learn totally new instruments to be able to continue with the path they chose. In 1994 Repulse Record's Dave Rotten, a huge fan of finnish death metal sound, woke up the band and released "The Fall" minicd. When "the older brother" chose to explore more thrashier style, Adramelech stuck to their guns and kept on delivering uncompromising 100% pure death metal and in 1996 it was rewarded with the first full length, "Psychostasia" released by Repulse Records. In 1997, the band was in it's ultimate form and the result, in my opinion, one of the most crushing death metal releases of all times, "Seven" MCD blessed with the classic Tico Tico studio production. Again, shortly after the release, the band was blistered with another line-up problem and was briefly brought back to life for Repulsive tour in 1998 with Incantation, Deeds of Flesh and Avulsed. In 1998, new members were brought in and for the first time, Jarkko left the vocal duties to concentrate on drums. The new line up was strong, but faced another problem with the release of the second album, having to form a label of their own, Severe Music, in order it to be released. "Pure Blood Doom" was finally out in 1999...cursed with the saying "what goes around, comes around" the band was again put on hold with line-up difficulties in late 2000. The final Adramelech line-up gathered to record their last release "Terror of Thousand Faces" in 2002, and was released by Xtreem Music (ex-Repulse) three years later.

Late 2010 Adramelech decided to continue after a long pause. The band is preparing for some live shows to be played and later for a new release.

 

 

RPS 015 CD

-Tracklist:

 1. Heroes in Godly Blaze     04:11
2. Psychostasia     04:06
3. Seance of Shamans     03:26
4. The Book of the Worm     06:11
5. Thoth (Lord of Holy Words)       03:10
6. Mythic Descendant     04:19
7. As the Gods Succumbed     05:02
8. Across the Gray Waters     03:59

 

-Line up:

• Jarkko Rantanen: Drums, Vocals
• Jani Aho: Guitars
• Mikko Aarnio: Bass
• Seppo Taatila: Guitars.

 

 

 

Label: Repulse Records.

 

 All arrangements by Adramelech.
Recorded & mixed at the Tico-Tico Studios in Dec'95/Jan'96.

Lyrics, design, photography by Turkka G Rantanen.
Mixed & recorded by Ahti Kortelainen. 

 

''Say the word that is never spoken
call the Goddess whom none worshipped
lay forth the bread for the Dead One
she that comes in a sunken boat

Read the words that were never written
learn the prayers better not known
know the times when the Fiendslayer sleeps
and call the Abominations from without

Call forth the Thing that cannot be summoned
stir the slumber of the Sleeping Lord
worship the corpse dead but dreaming
and be spared at the time of the Ancient Worm

Find the key to the lockless Gate
hear the echoes of Dog Gods soundless laughter
know the dreams of Those Who Never Sleep
as the world unnatural is finally united.'' 

Decayed & Urn - The Nameless Wraith / Morbid Death [Split] (2004)

Decayed:

One of the pioneering Portuguese black metal bands; founded in August 1990 as a death metal band named Decay by JA (vox/guitars) and Nuno (guitars), tired of senselless projects, decided to start a band with real goals. With Pedro on drums and Carlos on bass, the first songs start to be composed. Latter, Jorge joined on vocals. The first official release was the demo "Thus Revelead" from 1992; before that, several rehearsal tapes were sent throughout the Underground to spread the word.

 Around 1996, drummer J.B. left and subsequent recordings featured a drum machine. In 2002, the last remaining band member left, leaving founding member J.A. as the sole survivor,

Many members passed through the band during all these years.
In 2011 Vulturius joined on bass and vocals and in 2016 G.R. joined on drums.

 

Urn:

A Finnish thrash/black metal band based in Ylöjärvi/Lahti/Turku. Originally founded in Kuopio in the summer 1994 by Sulphur, Infernus and Pimeä in Kuopio, Finland.

 

 

-Tracklist:

1.   Decayed - Into Oblivion (Part I)     01:30    
2.   Decayed - The Nameless Wraith     04:46    
3.   Decayed - Into Oblivion (Part II)     00:51    
4.   Decayed - Demon of Death     06:20    
5.   Decayed - Into Oblivion (Part III)     02:42    
6.   Decayed - Welcome to Hell (Venom cover)     03:10    
7.   Decayed - Into Oblivion (Part IV)     01:38    
8.   Urn - Sadistic Sakrifices     01:15    
9.   Urn - Morbid Death     04:08    
10.   Urn - Invocation of Evil     02:57    
11.   Urn - Storm of Satanic Vengeance     03:33    
12.   Urn - Mark of the Beast     03:46    
13.   Urn - Hell...Torment     04:41

 

-Line up:

Urn:
• Sulphur: Vocals, Guitars, Bass
• Tuska: Drums.

Decayed:
• J.A.: Guitars, Bass, Vocals, Lyrics
• Tormentor: Drums, Percussion. 

 

 

 

Label: Iron Pegasus Records.

 

The same cover art of Decayed's side of the split was also used in Mengele's ''Senseless Extermination''.

"The Nameless Wraith" recorded between April and June 2003.
Drums and rhythm guitars were recorded at Toxomusic, Germany.
Vocals, bass and lead guitars were recorded at the Hell-Mayhem, Portugal.
"Morbid Death" recorded at Rehearsal Hell, 11th October 2003.

 

 

 

URN

 

 

 

DECAYED

 

 

 

 

 

 

Satanic Warmaster - Carelian Satanist Madness (2005)

 

Satanic Warmaster is Werwolf (Lauri Penttilä), formed in 1998.

The band's name comes from the title of a 1994 demo by Lord of Evil.

Werwolf maintains that Satanic Warmaster is not a national socialist black metal (NSBM) band. In a 2014 Q&A, he stated that the lyrics in his music have never concerned racism or white supremacy as a focal theme in any of his songs. 

-Tracklist:

1. The Vampiric Tyrant     04:48
2. Carelian Satanist Madness     08:11
3. True Blackness     04:09
4. My Dreams of 8     04:49
5. Eaten by Rats     03:40
6. 666     05:00
7. My Kingdom of Darkness     03:41
8. Blessed Be, the Grim Arts!     06:38

 

-Line up:

- Werwolf: Vocals, Guitars (lead), Bass, Drums, Keyboards, Songwriting, Lyrics (tracks 1-7) 

Drums [Session]: - Vholm
 Rhythm Guitar [Session]: - T.K. 

 Lyrics by Commando Wolf in track 8.

 

 

 

Label: No Colours Records.

 

The title of this album refers to Absurd's Thuringian Pagan Madness.

A digital instrumental version of the album was released in the band's Bandcamp page in December 18, 2016.

Recorded during March and April 2005 Anno Satanas, using four analogue tracks.

 

 ''Nature's primal unchained energy
That is enshrined in all that exists
The power of great destruction
And creation on the crumbling remains
Satan, creator
Satan, destructor
Satan, master residing in the void
of true blackness
The erect phallus of fertility
And the horns as it's guardians
The procreation of the triumphant
And the demise of the worthless
Satan, protector
Satan, imperator
Satan, master residing in the void
of true blackness
The ashes that nourish the soil
Born from the wrathful breath
That swallows the burdening life
Is a veil brooding our reborn earth
Satan, protector
Satan, renewer
Satan, master residing in the void
of true blacknes.''