Darkthrone - Preparing for War (Compilation) [2000]

 

Darkthrone started as a death metal band, but by the end of 1990 and the beginning of 1991, when they were rehearsing the material that would eventually become Goatlord, Nocturno Culto, Zephyrous and Fenriz developed interest to black metal. Soon they decided to abort the Goatlord sessions because the material didn't reflect what they felt, and started to compose the songs that were to be found on A Blaze in the Northern Sky. Dag Nilsen was the only member who still wanted to play technical death metal, so he recorded the bass lines for A Blaze in the Northern Sky and then left the band.

Darkthrone's name was inspired by a Danish zine from around 1985/86 called Blackthorn, written by the guys from the Danish band DesExult, as well as by the lyrics of the Celtic Frost song "Jewel Throne" (I'm the king, sitting in the dark hiding from the shadows of the wind/.../ As I gaze from the Jewel Throne to the portal of infinity).

 2000 CD Digipak, UK. Limited version come as a four-way fold out digipak.

 -Tracklist:

 1. Transilvanian Hunger  5:59
2. Snowfall  9:04
3. Archipelago     4:52
4. I En Hall Med Flesk Og Mjod     5:04
5. The Pagan Winter  6:34
6. Grave With A View  3:27
7. Eon/Thulcandra  4:51
8. Soria Moria     3:42
9. Natassja In Eternal Sleep  3:26
10. Cromlech  4:08
11. In The Shadow Of The Horns     6:57
12. Neptune Towers  3:27
13.Under A Funeral Moon  4:57
14. Skald Av Satans Sol  4:18
15. Iconoclasm Sweeps Cappadocia  3:59

 Tracks 1, 4 & 14 from "Transilvanian Hunger" LP (1994).
Tracks 5 & 11 from "A Blaze In The Northern Sky" LP (1992).
Tracks 6, 10 & 15 from "Soulside Journey" LP (1991).
Tracks 9 & 13 from "Under A Funeral Moon" LP (1993).
Track 2 from "A New Dimension" demo, 1988.
Track 3 from "Thulcandra" demo, 1989.
Tracks 7 & 8 recorded live in Oslo, 1989.
Track 12 recorded live in Esbjerg, 1990

 -Line up:

• Fenriz: drums, vocals (additional), bass, guitars (additional)
• Nocturno Culto: vocals, guitars, bass.

 

This album was released to commemorate the 10 year existence of the band. Containing their 'greatest hits' and some previously unreleased demo tracks.
The cover art is from the Cromlech demo.

 

Label: Peaceville Records.  

 

 

 

 

 

Watain - Casus Luciferi (2003)

 

Watain are a Swedish black metal band from Uppsala, formed in 1998. The band's name is taken from a recording by the American black metal band Von.
They released their demo Go Fuck Your Jewish "God" in 1998 and their live tape Black Metal Sacrifice in 1999, which they do not intend to re-release. In October 1999, the band released their EP The Essence of Black Purity through Grim Rune Productions, which they consider to be their first official release, and played on a show together with Malign and Dark Funeral, organised by Watain and Grim Rune Productions.

-Tracklist:

1. Devil's Blood     05:49
2. Black Salvation     06:45
3. Opus Dei (The Morbid Angel)     05:33
4. Puzzles ov Flesh     05:39
5. I Am the Earth     06:00
6. The Golden Horns of Darash     05:41
7. From the Pulpits of Abomination     06:34
8. Casus Luciferi     08:32

 

-Line up:

⛧E. - bass, vocals
⛧H. - drums
⛧P. - guitars.

 

"Casus Luciferi" is Latin for "The Fall of Lucifer".

Spawned at Necromorbus under the sixth moon of the third year, delivered by T. Stjerna.

 

Label: Drakkar Productions.

Recorded, mixed and mastered at Necromorbus Studio.

 "Casus Luciferi" is Latin for "The Fall of Lucifer".

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Machetazo & Cianide - Machetazo / Cianide [Split] 7''EP (2005)

Cianide are US death metal band was formed in 1989 in Chicago, Illinois, by Mike Perun (bass/vocals) and Scott Carroll (guitar). Like so many others from their genre, Cianide made their initial impression with two demos, ''Funeral'' and ''Second Life''. The addition of drummer Jeff Kabella helped bring their crushing musicianship and steadfast exhortations on the nature of decomposition to a wider audience, and the trio went overground in 1992 with ''The Dying Truth''. Building on their influences (Hellhammer, Celtic Frost, Venom, Death), ''A Descent Into Hell'' (1994) delivered a further caustic epistle, including a cover version of Canadian death metal crew Slaughter’s ‘'Death Dealer'’. Kabella was replaced by Andy Kuizin on 1996’s ''Rage War 1996'' demo (later re-released by Cyronics Records), while the following year’s ''Death, Doom And Destruction'' found the band increased to a quartet with the addition of second guitarist Jim Bresnahan. Their first album of the new millennium, ''Divide And Conquer'' (2000), was released by Merciless Records. Reduced to a trio with Bresnahan’s departure. The distribution was good, and the band's following grew rapidly. Soon the band started writing and rehearsing new material for a next full length.
Songs were completed and the new album, 'Hell's rebirth', got recorded, with advance copies to shop around to labels worldwide. From Beyond Productions heard the advance, recognized the sheer intensity of the material, and a deal was closed soon thereafter. The album will be presented as CD and limited LP. With 'Hell's rebirth', Cianide again stays true to their initial intentions to create pure and heavy doom death for those who can appreciated things the old school way.

-Tracklist:

 A Cianide - Black Earth     4:14
B1 Machetazo - Garrote Vil     2:51
B2 Machetazo - Potro De Tortura     1:55

-Line up: 

Machetazo:
• Rober Bustabad: guitars
• Carlos Cadáver: bass, vocals
• Dopi: drums, vocals.

Cianide:
• Andy Kuizin: drums
• Scott Carroll: guitars
• Mike Perun: vocals, bass.

 

Label: Hells Headbangers Records.

 Track A: recorded July 2004. Recorded at Slaughtersound Studios
Tracks B1, B2: Recorded at Treboada Studio with El Gusano, November 04. "Potro de Tortura" was originally featured on the split 7" with Corrupted, while "Garrote Vil" was originally on the "Trono de Huesos" album.

 Both Machetazo tracks were re-recorded for this release.

Limited to 200 copies on white / grey splatter vinyl and 800 copies on black vinyl, all in circular shapped cover.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Urgehal & Beastcraft ‎- Nekromisantrop / Blackwinged Messiah Of Blasphemy [EP] (2007)

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-Tracklist:

A. Urgehal - Nekromisantrop
B. Beastcraft - Blackwinged Messiah

 

-Line up:

Urgehal
- Alastor Nefas (R.I.P. 2012): vocals, guitars
- Enzifer: guitars
- Uruz: drums
- Mannevond: bass

Beastcraft
- Alastor Nefas (R.I.P. 2012): guitars, bass
- Sorath Northgrove: vocals, drums.

 

Label: BlackSeed Productions 

Track A was evoked at the Urgehal rehearsehell in the dawn of 2007.
Track B spawned at the Necrochamber.  

Gatefold cover with two miniposters.

Limited to 1000 copies.

Urgehal - SWR Barroselas Metalfest (Por) XII  02.05.2009

 

Rotten Sound - Consume To Contaminate [EP] (2006)

 

Rotten Sound were conceived in the city of Vaasa, Finland by guitarist Mika Aalto in 1993, who was soon joined by vocalist Keijo Niinimaa. This duo remains in place as the only original members - yet drummer Sami Latva and Kristian Toivainen on bass have meanwhile been steady members for many years as well. The Finns can proudly look back at an impressive catalogue of  highly acclaimed studio albums.. Furthermore Rotten Sound hit the stages of major metal and hardcore oriented festivals and toured in regular intervals alongside such renowned acts as Nasum, Phobia, Disfear, Carcass, Municipal Waste, Exhumed, Napalm Death, and Pig Destroyer among many others.

 

-Tracklist:

    1. Decay     02:20
    2. Loss     01:48
    3. Crime     01:13
    4. GDP      03:02
    5. CTC      02:24
  6. Flesh     00:58

7. Fear     01:42

 8. Time     01:48

 

-Line up:

• Sami Latva: drums
• Mika Aalto: guitars
• Toni Pihlaja: bass
• Keijo Niinimaa: vocals.

 

 

Label:  Power It Up Records.

Limited to 1000 copies (900 copies on black vinyl & 100 copies on transparent red vinyl)

Comes with an insert and label catalog.
Transparent red vinyl edition comes with a Rotten Sound patch.

Produced by Rotten Sound during April 2006
Recorded and Mixed at Sound Supreme Studios
Mastered at Tonteknik Studios.

 

Artwork by Mush Design.

 

 

 

Judas Iscariot - Dethroned, Conquered and Forgotten [EP] (2000)

 

Judas Iscariot was an American black metal band. It began in 1992 as the solo-project of Andrew Harris, who performed under the pseudonym Akhenaten (after the Egyptian Pharaoh of the same name).
With the release of Heaven in Flames (1999), Duane Timlin (aka Cryptic Winter) joined the band as a session drummer. During 1999 and 2000, Akhenaten twice performed live with a line-up featuring members from Nargaroth, Krieg, Absu and Maniac Butcher.
Akhenaten stated that his music was intended to give others strength to live in a world compromised by materialism and irrational religious ideology.
Some of the lyrics on early Judas Iscariot albums are borrowed from the works of English poet and Christian mystic William Blake, as well as from English poet Percy Bysshe Shelly, fundamental for understanding the connection between Dark Romanticism, the esoteric and their connection to heavy metal lyrics.

Akhenaten repeatedly denied holding any extreme right-wing or racist views. In an interview he stated "Judas Iscariot is no Nazi band. I myself am no Nazi either [...] If other bands think they have to include politics into their music, it's their business, but this has nothing to do with my band."

After relocating to Germany, Akhenaten announced the demise of Judas Iscariot on August 25, 2002.

-Tracklist:

 1. Descent to the Abyss   04:53
2. Benevolent Whore, Dethroned for Eternity   03:18
3. Journey Through Visions of War   05:41
4. March upon a Mighty Throne     03:46
5. Spill the Blood of the Lamb (Special Blitzkrieg version)   03:15

 

 

-Line up:

⛧Akhenaten: vocals, guitars, bass, keyboards

⛧Cryptic Winter: drums [session].

 

 

 

 

 

Label: Red Stream, Inc.

 

All music written by Akhenaten.