Hypnotic Dirge Releases

A complete catalog of every Hypnotic Dirge release in descending order from the present to our early days in late 2008.
On this page, you will find a brief description of each record, links to buy the physical release if it is still available, a streaming / download link, and a collection of album reviews. You can also visit our Bands and Artists page for more in-depth information about the bands we have worked with!

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Official Releases - Physical Media
2023



Notturno - Inside
Release: October 6, 2023
Style: Depressive Black Metal
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The rich textures and nocturnal mood of the debut remains but on "Inside" the sound is developed further with some elements that weren't present previously, crafting an enveloping soundtrack to despair through the use of buzzsaw guitars, haunting piano, and even orchestral instruments that blend seamlessly and float in and out as required creating droning introspection and emotional crescendos in equal measure.

Kings Rot - At the Gates of Adversarial Darkness
Release: September 22, 2023
Style: Melodic Black Metal
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Expanding upon their debut record, “The Shadow of the Accursed” released in 2021, Kings Rot’s sophomore release carries an onslaught of fast-paced melodic black metal with a rich and warm sound rooted in classic black metal. Kings Rot is not a band that focuses on atmospheric flourishes, but rather emphasizes riffs and melody. Dark, fast, and straight to the point, “At the Gates of Adversarial Darkness” is an album for traditional black metal fans and disciples of the riff.

Subterranean Disposition - Individuation
Release: August 25, 2023
Style: Progressive Doom Metal
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Seven long years on from their sophomore release, Subterranean Disposition returns in 2023 with a new full-length work, Individuation. The latest chapter continues the Doom lineage of the group, albeit at times through Death metal, Black metal and Experimental Lenses to shape long songs moving through dynamically different musical landscapes with ease, prompting the listener lyrically to look to ones inner world for guidance, inspired by the work of Carl Jung.

Claret Ash - Worldtorn: Anemoia
Release: August 11, 2023
Style: Atmospheric Black Metal
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Featuring a mix of both new material and reinterpreted work from their back catalog,'Worldtorn: Anemoia' delivers atmospheric and menacing black metal equally unforgiving, savage, triumphant, and imaginative. At its core, the new material on the EP is Atmospheric Black Metal but uses a wide array of tools to craft that familiar atmosphere, seamlessly shifting from pummeling death metal sections, soaring melodic leads, ethereal folk sections, and more.

Urbain - A Soul Purged
Release: July 28, 2023
Style: Urban Black Metal
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Drawing its somber inspirations from the fallout of a pandemic that stripped cities down to their marrow, Urbain reflects on the despair that lurks beneath the surface of urban life. From our ego's toxic grip on our perceptions, our dwindling connection with the very sustenance we consume, to living in a world where empathy is eclipsed by the self-absorption of the modern denizen, the band brings to the surface the grotesque nature of our everyday reality.

NONE - Inevitable
Release: June 30, 2023
Style: Depressive Black Metal
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The reclusive NONE return in 2023 with their fourth chapter, their longest and darkest work. “Inevitable” is the culmination of their musical legacy, evoking the signature depressive atmosphere that has struck listeners across the globe. Like the last stage of grief, “Inevitable” is a black, nihilistic acceptance… Surrendering to existential loss and failure, only to whisper a sigh of contempt before an apathetic march toward the inevitable end. 

Inherus - Beholden
Release: May 26, 2023
Style: Post-Metal / Doom
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Crossing the realms of post-metal and heavy rock, Beholden mixes black metal, psyche-rock-influenced solos and doomy riffs with male and female clean & harsh vocals. The record spans genres without living in any singular one and yields both a united heartbreaking and feral sound. "Like the Stag Priestess depicted on the cover of the album, there is an otherworldly part of each of us that tames the fire of the unpredictable and approaches the world in spite of it with kindness."

Orphans of Dusk - Spleen
Release: April 28, 2023
Style: Blackened Gothic Doom
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Returning 9 years after the release of their debut EP "Revenant", Orphans of Dusk opens their goth-doom gasket again, coming back to life to present “Spleen,” their haunting new album. Spreading its vice over 8 songs, “Spleen”’s full length duration enables the band, over the course of 50 minutes, to bring listeners further into their sublime dark universe, pushing further all facets that gave its identity in the first place. For fans of Type O Negative, Woods of Ypres, and Unto Others.




Official Releases - Physical Media
2022


Swampborn - Beyond Ratio
Release: June 17, 2022
Style: Avant-garde Black Metal
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"Beyond Ratio" is the debut album of Russian band Swampborn. Combining (post) black metal with a powerful, at times almost death metal sound, its music comes as a massive flow of energy, consisting of a flurry of drums, multi-layered guitar canvases, piercing melodies and expressive vocals, rusty and ominous like an apocalyptic sermon. Beyond Ratio will penetrate into the human soul, exposing its bleeding wounds and cleansing it in the merciless flame of the Absolute.

Tishina - Uvod...
Release: May 30, 2022
Style: Melodic Doom-Death Metal
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Tishina (Тишина) is best described as a Melodic Doom/Death Metal project which was initially born as a side-project to explore slower, deeper and more emotional side of music. The inspiration for the first album, Uvod... ('Увод...') came mainly from the book of poems 'Nad Vodama Aheronta', written by Serbian author Predrag Rava. Uvod... combines a exquisite blend of mid-paced melodic riffs, blackened sections, and various shifts in atmosphere and tone throughout its playtime.

Notturno - Obsessions
Release: April 29, 2022
Style: Depressive/Atmospheric Black Metal
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Notturno develops its atmosphere through lengthy songs with strong dynamics and pacing, keeping the listener lost in a reverie and crafting an immersive experience at once melancholic and infectious, floating between Atmospheric and Depressive Black Metal, Doom, and Chamber music - intimate and possessing a strong character highlighted by the unique and singular expressiveness of female vocalist Kjiel (Eyelessight) and organically driven drum work of Sven.

NONE - Damp Chill of Life [12" vinyl]
Release: January 8, 2022
Style: Depressive Black Metal
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The second pressing of the "Damp Chill of Life" vinyl, limited to 300 copies in this pressing and presented in gatefold packaging. "Damp Chill of Life" was originally released in CD format on April 11, 2019.  “Damp Chill Of Life” will gnaw at your bones like dying alone in an ice-bound wilderness. Haunting piano keys and retching voices flicker through harsh walls of instruments, ebbing and flowing through the lengthy tracks as NONE take their time to pick apart your psyche.

NONE - Life has gone on long enough [12" vinyl]
Release: January 8, 2022
Style: Depressive Black Metal
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The second pressing of the "Life has gone on long enough" vinyl edition. "Life has gone on long enough" was originally released in CD format on April 11, 2018. Limited to 300 copies in this pressing and presented in a single sleeve with a double-sided poster. Moving in and out like the long shadows of an ancient forest, the harsh musical passages of Life Has Gone On Long Enough entertwine and die through forlorn atmospheres, devouring and nourishing a hopeless life.

NONE - selftitled [12" vinyl]
Release: January 8, 2022
Style: Depressive Black Metal
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The second pressing of NONE's selftitled album on vinyl. NONE's selftitled album\ was originally released in CD format on April 11, 2017. Limited to 300 copies in this pressing and includes the bonus track "Where Life Should Be". The piercing guitar tone interwoven with haunting and depressing synth pads and piano melodies result in a sound that is constantly plodding forward, marching in despair towards an empty void.




Official Releases - Digital Only
2022


Norilsk - Beyond the Mountains
Release: May 13, 2022
Style: Death-Doom Metal
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Released on the tipping point at the end of the world, Beyond the Mountains is a death-doom offering that speaks to the fragile overlap between the nostalgic old world and a dark new chapter in history. It is released in 2022 both as a tribute to the doom-death scene and an omen of things to come. 




Official Releases - Physical Media
2021


Ov Shadows - I Djävulens Avbild [12" vinyl]
Release: October 1, 2021
Style: Black Metal
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Originally released in the summer of 2020 through Hypnotic Dirge, we have collaborated with Vendetta Records to bring out Ov Shadows' sophomore release on vinyl as well. The combination of infectious riffs, recurring hooks, blastbeats, and tortured vocals create an enveloping claustrophobic and dark dissonance, as if a shroud has covered your face and defined forms have turned to shadows. 
Ov Shadows - The Darkness Between Stars [12" vinyl]
Release: October 1, 2021
Style: Black Metal
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Originally released in early 2018 through Black Market Metal Label, Hypnotic Dirge and Vendetta Records have collaborated to bring out this fantastic debut album on vinyl for the very first time. An atmosphere of choking fog, an eruption of wild, feral savagery in an inhuman speed. It's terrifying intense... a true masterpiece of darkness. A sublime, terrifying all-out assault on your senses!
Forlesen - Hierophant Violent [12" vinyl]
Release: September 9, 2021
Style: Avantgarde Ambient Doom
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Comprising of two tracks nearing twenty minutes a piece, “Hierophant Violent” is a delicate and hypnotic sensory experience incorporating a myriad of styles and influences to craft a work of art which is cathartic and illuminating. Each track is a journey unfolding different aspects of the band’s sound, drawing inspiration from artists as diverse as Low, Leviathan, Skepticism and Dead Can Dance. 

Nordicwinter - Sorrow
Release: March 26, 2021
Style: Depressive Black Metal
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As with Nordicwinter's previous records, "Sorrow" examines the darker side of the human condition through somber and melancholic music. Utilizing a typical dsbm sound, the guitars have the perfect level of distortion to carry a bit of grit while still being clear and allowing the occasional string melody to hover above the mix like a blanket of stars. "Sorrow" surpasses even the heights of Nordicwinter's 2020 records and raises them to the upper tier of Depressive Black Metal.

a noend of mine - Sanctuaires
Release: March 12, 2021
Style: Experimental Post-Prog
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Sanctuaires is a second album by a noend of mine, a project by Les Vynogradov (Vin de Mia Trix, Kauan). Sanctuaires marks a departure from the mellow proggy vignettes found on anom’s debut, The Serenity’s Eve, in favor of a slower, darker, cinematic approach. Drawing inspiration from sources as varied as Bark Psychosis, Bohren & Der Club of Gore, Dead Can Dance, and Olivier Messiaen, the album offers an unexpected mix of post-prog, funeral jazz and sacred music. 

Frigoris - Wind [12" vinyl]
Release: February 26, 2021
Style: Melodic Post-Black Metal
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Formed in 2007, Frigoris have released 4 full length albums, cementing their mastery of the Atmospheric/Pagan Black Metal genre. Their second album, "Wind", can be seen as the turning point in their career, marking a stylistic shift from their early days and bringing them the attention they deserve. The 2021 vinyl edition of "Wind" is specifically re-mastered for vinyl by Nicolas Keller at Red Door Studios in Heusenstamm, Germany and featuring brand new artwork on the insert.

Omination - NGR
Release: February 5, 2021
Style: Apocalyptic Funeral Doom
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An absolute mammoth of a record, “NGR” (The New Golgotha Repvbliq) contains over an hour of some of the most encapsulating and ominous funeral doom metal to come out in quite some time. Combining abrasive and dissonant riffs with a shroud of atmospheric and monumental church organ and choirs, the instrumental aspect of this record is already massive, which is only enhanced by Fedor’s forceful growls, belted with conviction and strength. 

Nordicwinter - Desolation
Release: January 15, 2021
Style: Atmospheric Black Metal
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A chilling soundtrack for the dead of winter, Nordicwinter is a solo atmospheric/depressive black metal band from Quebec, Canada founded by evillair. Laden with haunting melodies and cryptic vocals, Nordicwinter creates music that is crafted to obliterate all remnants of light and hope leaving only despair and death. This is high-caliber Depressive black metal with a cold and desolate atmosphere that retains a certain amount of bite and variation!

Sertraline - The streetlight was all we needed
Release: January 15, 2021
Style: Post-Black Metal
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Sertraline are marked by immense musical saturation. Three guitars pour out sustained, melodic passages drenched in reverb and illustrated with glacial leads, backed by a rhythm section inspired equally to jazz-like syncopation and punishing metal proficiency. Often wandering but never lost, each song surprises listeners in turn with moments of introspection and emotional climax.

NONE - Damp Chill of Life [12" vinyl]
Release: January 7, 2021
Style: Depressive Black Metal
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Hypnotic Dirge Records and Viridian Shade Records have once again collaborated to bring you the third installment of the NONE vinyl trilogy. "Damp Chill of Life" was originally released in CD format on April 11, 2019 and will now be pressed on wax for the first time in an edition of 500 copies. Presented in gatefold packaging, there will be 300 copies in classic black, while the more limited variants will be 100 blue chill vinyl), and 100 white mist vinyl.




Official Releases - Digital Only
2021

Moonworshipper - 13 Fullmoon Nights of Doubt
Release: December 13, 2021
Style: Suicidal Black Metal / Depressive Pop
Format: Digital Only
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No fucks given about anything, except being true to what it stands for, Moonworshipper is a dark underground project combining depressive pop and suicidal black metal into long hypnotizing pieces of music. Its second chapter "13 Full Moon Nights of Doubt" delivers an experience that is at once haunting, menacing, genuine, and vulnerable. Utter fucking desperation, for fans of Shining, Silencer, and Lana Del Rey.




Official Releases - Physical Media
2020



Liminal Shroud - Through the False Narrows
Release: November 20, 2020
Style: Melodic Black Metal
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Liminal Shroud is a black metal band based in Victoria, BC taking inspiration from the surging oceans and mist-strewn coast as they explore themes of futility, passage, and individual and metaphysical transformation. As a three-piece, Liminal Shroud’s sound is stripped-back yet immersive, with expansive guitars underpinned by a driving and dynamic rhythm section; kindling a form of black metal surging with atmosphere anguish, melancholy and rage.

Marche Funèbre - Einderlicht
Release: September 25, 2020
Style: Death-Doom Metal
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2020 sees the release of Marche Funèbre‘s 4th full length album. The Belgian quintet has built a steady reputation of making a unique blend of eclectic doom death metal, and their new album proves to be the pinnacle of their growth. Entitled ‘Einderlicht’, which translates as the light at/of the end, the new album brings all the elements known from Marche Funèbre: death, black, and doom metal in a unique mix, with strong melodies and a wide vocal approach.

Wills Dissolve - Echoes
Release: August 28, 2020
Style: Progressive Metal
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Following on the comet tail of their debut album "The Heavens Are Not On Fire...", Wills Dissolve direct their gaze upon the cosmos once again in “Echoes”, their sophomore album presented as a 32 minute exploration of the loneliness and sacrifice of astro-technological advancement. Allow yourself to be transported through the empty vacuum of space exploring the cosmos as the last vestiges of humanity search for another planet to inhabit.

Ov Shadows - I Djävulens Avbild
Release: August 14, 2020
Style: Black Metal
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Ov Shadows returns with their second full-length and first release on Hypnotic Dirge Records. Entitled "I Djävulens Avbild", the new record presents Ov Shadows at an unprecedented ferocity and forward-momentum. The combination of infectious riffs, recurring hooks, blastbeats, and tortured vocals create an enveloping claustrophobic and dark dissonance, as if a shroud has covered your face and defined forms have turned to shadows. 

NONE - Life has gone on long enough [12" vinyl]
Release: July 3, 2020
Style: Depressive Black Metal
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Following the vinyl release of NONE’s debut album, Hypnotic Dirge and Viridian Flame are thrilled to release NONE’s second chapter “Life has gone on long enough" on wax.  Originally released on CD and Digital formats on April 11, 2018, this momentous album is now available on vinyl format. The record comes with a panoramic 90cm x 30cm fold out double-sided poster of never-before released photography from the album photoshoot.

Feral Light - Life Vapor
Release: May 22, 2020
Style: Black Metal / Blackened Crust
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Firmly anchored in Blackened Post-Metal, Life Vapor - Feral Light's third album -, not only builds up on the foundations of its predecessor, but it also cranks it up on all fronts. It instantly pulls you in with its killer mix of melodic and dissonant riffing, combining and incorporating various styles including elements of post-metal, black n roll, doom, and second-wave black metal. 

Forlesen - Hierophant Violent
Release: April 18, 2020
Style: Avantgarde Ambient Doom
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Comprising of two tracks nearing twenty minutes a piece, “Hierophant Violent” is a delicate and hypnotic sensory experience incorporating a myriad of styles and influences to craft a work of art which is cathartic and illuminating. Each track is a journey unfolding different aspects of the band’s sound, drawing inspiration from artists as diverse as Low, Leviathan, Skepticism and Dead Can Dance. 

NONE - selftitled + bonus track [12" vinyl]
Release: February 21, 2020
Style: Depressive Black Metal
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In conjunction with Viridian Flame Records, Hypnotic Dirge is proud to release NONE’s seminal self-titled debut album pressed on wax for the very first time! Originally released in April 2017, this album was the first chapter for this enigmatic depressive black metal legacy. The vinyl edition of the self-titled album also includes NONE’s stand-alone single “Where Life Should Be” - previously unavailable in any physical medium - as a bonus track.

Frigoris - ...in Stille
Release: January 24, 2020
Style: Atmospheric Black Metal
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...In Stille, the fourth album by atmospheric black metal group Frigoris, builds on the foundation laid by Nur Ein Moment… beautifully –  with aggression, emotion, and a sense of urgency that leaves the listener enraptured in a state of existential triumph. Frigoris alternates between reverberating cleans and pulsing distortion –  to move their listeners through the crushing journey of the album’s protagonist as he faces his own mortality.

Kassad - London Orbital
Release: January 10, 2020
Style: Urban Black Metal / Post-Black Metal
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Combining abrasive and gritty black metal with hallucinatory ambience and spiralling postrock intricacy, Kassad’s name is synonymous with misery, futility, and madness of modern urban life. "London Orbital", the new album, centers around modern urban living and looks to a near future of megacities where the city itself is a personified, malevolent being where human empathy and culture have been replaced by artificial intelligence.




Official Releases - Digital Only
2020

Moonworshipper - 13 Fullmoon Nights of Loneliness
Release: June 13, 2020
Style: Avantgarde Black Metal / Doom / Melancholic Pop
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Moonworshipper blends together lo-fi black metal, with trip-hop, soundtrack music, doom, post-rock, and jazz. The debut EP of Moonworshippers, entitled "13 Fullmoon Nights of Loneliness" is the start of a planned conceptual trilogy which will be resolved over the coming months. Fans and listeners of netra, Ulver, White Ward and Manes will likely find a lot of value in "13 Fullmoon Nights of Loneliness" and eagerly await the next chapter of this tale..

Omination - The Pale Horseman
Release: May 1, 2020
Style: Funeral Doom Metal
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A stand-alone track from the Apocalyptic Funeral Doom project "Omination". This track, entitled "The Pale Horseman" and spanning nearly 30 minutes is a commentary and interpretation of the COVID-19 pandemic.




Official Releases - Physical Media
2019


Maeskyyrn - Interlude
Release: October 17, 2019
Style: Atmospheric / Depressive Black Metal
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Maeskyyrn is a black metal entity born of Montreal, Quebec, in 2017. With its raw guitars and tortured screams, the full band’s aesthetic is reminiscent of the second wave of black metal. Indeed, as the album title suggests, Maeskyyrn brings forth a number of atmospheric interludes, thus pacing the album with brief uncomfortable moments of respite, before dragging you into the darkest pits with a series of long, punishing tracks. 

Nachtterror - Judgement
Release: October 10, 2019
Style: Symphonic Black Metal
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Nachtterror is a Symphonic Black Metal band formed in 2006 in Regina, SK. Since their founding, Nachtterror has always been a band focused on telling a story of tragedy and empowerment - the tragedy of life and the suffering that can accompany it, as well as the empowerment of embracing your own negativity and using it to evolve and grow. A powerful and hard-hitting album firmly rooted in the tradition of symphonic / melodic black metal.

Wills Dissolve - The Heavens Are Not On Fire...
Release: July 29, 2019
Style: Progressive Blackened Death Metal
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“The Heavens Are Not On Fire...is the debut album from Wills Dissolve. Equally atmospheric and aggressive, this album weaves its concept (“a meditation on religion, violence, and cosmic chaos”) through seamless, satisfying transitions between ambient and bold passages. Led by masterfully executed drum grooves and finished with blazing, melodic leads and crushing vocals, Heavens… is progressive, but never wandering. 

Kval - Laho
Release: May 23, 2019
Style: Atmospheric Black Metal
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Compared to the previous album, Laho ("Rotten") has a brighter and more colorful atmosphere musically while the lyrical themes references the decay and rot of the forest floor, applied as a metaphor for the human mind. Our inability to live in the moment, the loss of innocence, and the ever-present corrosion of our optimism and descent into cynicism encompass the themes of Laho, wrapped in captivating and entrancing Atmospheric Black Metal.

Mavradoxa - Nightmarrow
Release: May 2, 2019
Style: Atmospheric / Progressive Black Metal
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Nightmarrow is a meditation on the isolation and hopelessness of our age and the consequences of technology and voracious consumption of resources. “Nightmarrow” sees Mavradoxa developing and intensifying their song-writing ability crafting simultaneously cohesive yet unpredictable songs that is still rooted in Atmospheric Black Metal. An intense onslaught of momentous energy and a visceral spirit that covers you in a shroud of atmosphere.

NONE - Damp Chill of Life
Release: April 11, 2019
Style: Atmospheric / Depressive Black Metal
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Like clockwork, NONE returns this spring to destroy your seasonal optimism with their oppressively bleak atmosphere. Weaving visionary soundscapes with depressive black metal, “Damp Chill Of Life” will gnaw at your bones like dying alone in an ice-bound wilderness. Haunting piano and retching voices flicker through harsh walls of instruments, ebbing and flowing through the lengthy tracks as NONE take their time to pick apart your psyche.

The Haunting Green - Natural Extinctions
Release: March 5, 2019
Style: Doom Metal / Post-Metal
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The Haunting Green are a doom metal duo based in Italy that builds on a doom foundation with post-metal, drone, and percussive elements to create a unique and quintessential sound. Their debut album“Natural Extinctions” explores the inability of human beings to preserve their innocence and bond with nature during their existence. Recorded Mixed, and Mastered at El Fish Recording Studio. Cover art illustrated by Jessica Rassi.

Il Vuoto - Vastness
Release: February 12, 2019
Style: Funeral Doom / Melancholic Doom
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Il Vuoto is the noise of sorrow and distress…a solo Funeral Doom / Drone project hailing from Piacenza, Italy.

Each song on the album discusses the theme of sorrow from a different perspective and point of view. From slow pulsing Funeral Doom, galloping Black Metal, dreamy Post-rock, and melancholic acoustic sections, “Vastness” is expansive and exploratory, exploring real life stories of suicide, illness, and psychological disorders.




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2019

Sertraline - These Mills Are Oceans
Release: November 12, 2019
Style: Post-Black Metal
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Fresh off the release of "From Both Our Hands" and their eastern North American tour this summer, Sertraline returns with "These Mills Are Oceans", another sublime collection of songs that will conjure up a plethora of emotion through its fantastic use of dynamics and juxtaposition between delicate and ominous atmospheres and vibrant crescendos of lush and mesmerizing sections that feel deeply cathartic. 
Sertraline - From Both Our Hands
Release: July 20, 2019
Style: Post-Black Metal
Format: Digital Only
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Sertraline is the most aurally decadent post-black metal band to hit the scene in the last few years. Their impact comes primarily from a combination of melodic saturation and individual expertise. The vocals are passionate and laden with emotion; the three-guitar choir creates an impenetrable wall of sound; the bass is unique, expressive, and vibrant; and the drums are clearly jazz-influenced, groovy, and, when called for, unrelenting.

Hypnotic Dirge Records - The Depths of the Abyss Knows No Bounds [2019 Compilation]
Release: April 8, 2019
Style: Multiple genres
Format: Digital Only
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Hypnotic Dirge presents its latest compilation album, entitled "The Depth of the Abyss Knows No Bounds". This is our first compilation album since the Subarctic Nocturnes Trilogy and includes tracks from both recent and upcoming releases. 100% of donations from this compilation will go to 350.org!! This is a small gesture to offset some of the environmental impact associated with running a record label.

Omination - The New Golgotha Repvbliq
Release: February 1, 2019
Style: Atmospheric / Funeral Doom Metal
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Omination is an Apocalyptic Funeral Doom band from Tunisia, headed by Fedor Kovalevsky of Vielikan. In 2018, Omination released an enormous debut double-album "Followers of the Apocalypse" already showing their depth and maturity in songwriting and the ability to conjure ominous atmospheres.Omination returns with a new single entitled "The New Golgotha Repvbliq", the eponymous track from their upcoming album.

Eave - Banners to the Moonswept
Release: January 31, 2019
Style: Post-Black Metal / Blackgaze
Format: Digital Only
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Weaving black metal riffs over a phantasmagorical blackgaze shroud, "Banners to the Moonswept" serves as a perfect introduction to the sound of Eave, a post-black metal band from Portland. Maine. Sometimes aggressive, other times pensive, but always hypnotic, "Banners to the Moonswept" is chock full of monumental riffs over its short run time, well-mixed with engaging drums, audible bass, and melancholic synth lines.




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2018

Omgeving - Wijde wijdte
Release: December 6, 2018
Style: Blackened Metal / Space Rock
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“Omgeving” is an experimental musical project from the Netherlands where the listener is meant to interpret the sound as auditory landscapes, every texture part of a broader perception that has been created.  Entitled “Wijde Wijdte”, the first Omgeving album crosses the boundaries of black metal, space rock, ambient, and doom conjuring imagery through soundscapes,  tones and frequencies that transport you through inner and outer space.

Norilsk - Weepers of the Land
Release: October 12, 2018
Style: Death-Doom Metal
Format: 4 Panel Digipack with 4 Page Booklet
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Coming off the heels of their latest full-length album, this fall the Canadian Death-Doom act Norilsk returns with a collection of new material linked in concept with its previous full-length while also showcasing Norilsk’s more collaborative and multi-faceted nature. The new mini-album, entitled “Weepers of the Land” is made up of four new compositions as well as a Mylene Farmer cover song with artwork from William Blair Bruce (1859-1906) .

NONE - selftitled [Second pressing]
Release: June 16, 2018 [Original release: April 11, 2017]
Style: Atmospheric / Depressive Black Metal
Format: 6 Panel Digipack
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The second pressing of the debut album from the enigmatic DSBM band NONE. Chilling and despondent music from the Pacific Northwest. Make no mistake, this music is fucking cold and would serve as a perfect soundtrack to your death. An endless blizzard in a vast tundra. An album that will certainly appeal to Atmospheric Black Metal and DSBM listeners of such groups as Shining, Coldworld, and Woods of Desolation. 

Altars of Grief - This Shameful Burden [Deluxe re-release]
Release: June 16, 2018
Style: Blackened Doom Metal
Format: 6 Panel Digipack
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Originally self-released by the band, “This Shameful Burden” has been out of print for years, and alas it is finally time for this piece of Altars of Grief’s history to be made available once again. The 2018 edition of “This Shameful Burden” has been updated for a 6 panel digipack with an entirely different layout featuring new artwork and bonus tracks from the  “Of Ash and Dying Light” split, previously only available on vinyl.

NONE - Life has gone on long enough
Release: April 11, 2018
Style: Depressive Black Metal
Format: 6 Panel Digipack
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NONE's new album Life Has Gone On Long Enough takes its haunting shape through eight organic tracks of foggy mountainous atmosphere and bleak music. Moving in and out like the long shadows of an ancient forest, Life Has Gone On Long Enough entertwine and die through forlorn atmospheres, devouring and nourishing a hopeless life. The album will be presented in a 6 panel digipack with gorgeous panoramic photography.

Altars of Grief - Iris
Release: March 21, 2018
Style: Blackened Doom Metal
Format: 4 Panel Digipack with 6 Page Inlay
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Prairies doom metal juggernaut Altars of Grief is back with its second full length album Iris. Following the acclaimed Of Ash and Dying Light split album of 2015, this new symphonic blackened doom offering is more dynamic, more layered, and is without the shadow of a doubt the more accomplished work from the Saskatchewan band to date. On Iris, melancholy reaches new depths of beauty and sorrow. 

Marche Funèbre - Into the Arms of Darkness
Release: February 22, 2018
Style: Atmospheric Dark Ambient
Format: 4 Panel Digipack with 8 Page Booklet (Co-release with Moscow Funeral League / Frozen Light)
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In conjunction with the new split album with Eye of Solitude, Hypnotic Dirge Records is proud to be re-releasing Marche Funèbre's magnus opus Into the Arms of Darkness. Originally released about a year ago the album received praise among the doom scene for its mature songwriting and fine balance of traditional doom and doom-death elements, making it Marche Funèbre's best album to date, and a must-have within the genre.
Eye of Solitude | Marche Funèbre - Split Album
Release: February 22, 2018
Style: Funeral Death-Doom Metal
Format: 6 Panel Digipack (Co-release with Cimmerian Shade Recordings)
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"Collapse" and "Darkness"; two facets of sorrow, two sides of extreme doom metal, two long songs combined into one monumental split album. England's Eye of Solitude offers"Collapse," a marching funeral doom track shrouded in a thick smoky atmosphere. Belgium's Marche Funèbre presents "Darkness," an epic track that combines their signature blend of riff and growl, along with powerful melodies and clean vocal passages




Official Releases - Digital Only
2018


NONE - Where Life Should Be
Release: November 5, 2018
Style: Depressive / Atmospheric Black Metal
Format: Digital Only
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"Where Life Should Be" is an emotionally devastating journey, drenched in atmosphere and hopelessness from this mysterious project from the pacific northwest. This is an exclusive NONE song, a stand-alone release separate from the next full-length album scheduled for a release in spring 2019.



Official Releases - Physical Media
2017


Melankolia - Vividarium Intervigilium Viator
Release: December 12, 2017
Style: Atmospheric Dark Ambient
Format: 4 Panel Digipack with 8 Page Booklet
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The nights are long, the air is cold, and winter's firm grasp is upon us. This is the season of contemplation and reflection. Vividarium Intervigilium Viator is the perfect soundtrack for solitary introspection allowing you to feel mourning, loss, resentment, as well as hope for optimism. The physical album is presented in a 4 panel digipack with an accompanying booklet of photography from the composer Mike O’Brien and Silvana Massa.
Norilsk - Le Passage des Glaciers
Release: November 24, 2017
Style: Blackened Death-Doom Metal
Format: 4 Panel Digipack with 12 Page Booklet
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French-Canadian band Norilsk is back with a captivating new album, as thick and heavy as permafrost. Le passage des glaciers follows in the footsteps of 2015's The Idea of North, but expands the sound considerably. From a sludgy slab of doom-death, the band has carved further into the icy influences of dark metal, to emerge with a blackened doom-death album with frozen melodies, misty atmospheres, and reflective lyrical passages. 
Ah Ciliz / Chiral - Origins
Release: November 6, 2017
Style: Atmospheric Black Metal
Format: 6 Panel Digipack (Co-release with Throats Productions)
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Hypnotic Dirge and Throats Production presents the release an intense nature-themed atmospheric Black Metal split record entitled "Origins" between two great atmospheric bands - Combining the dreamy and hypnotic atmosphere of Lustre with the breathless wonder of Falls of Rauros' , and the wild raw guitar lines of Wolves in the Throne Room. Highly atmospheric split album based on indigenous culture, nature and the cosmos.
Odradek Room - A Man of Silt
Release: October 12, 2017
Style: Progressive (Doom) Metal
Format: Limited 6 Panel Digipack with Booklet (Co-release with Solitude Productions)
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Odradek Room is a four-piece progressive metal band from Mariupol, Ukraine. Named after Franz Kafka's short story The Cares of a Family Man [1919] Odradek Room uses doom metal as a base, but explores other musical genres to paint a rich palette of texture and atmosphere. Lyrically rooted in spiritual and philosophical themes, this is music that should appeal to introspective souls and deep thinkers. 
Kval - Kval
Release: July 27, 2017
Style: Atmospheric Depressive Black Metal
Format: 6 Panel Digipack
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Kval, like a thick fog prevailing over an ancient forest, carries the last pangs of hope below this ominous landscape. Cold guitars and tortured screams roll over slow-bleeding drum patterns like walls of icy wind, only interrupted from time to time by a short interlude. three minimalistic ambient songs. For fans of Burzum, Forgotten Woods, and Mortualia.
Kassad - Faces Turn Away
Release: July 6, 2017
Style: Urban Black Metal
Format: 4 Panel Sleeve / 8 Page Booklet
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From the onset of “Faces Turn Away”, an all-encompassing sense of existential terror and claustrophobic anxiety hits you and builds to a crescendo before everything descends into dread and finally nothingness. An album about the misery, futility, and madness of modern urban life that feels both urgent and cavernous. For fans of netra, Burzum, and Darkspace.
Mavradoxa - Lethean Lament
Release: June 22, 2017
Style: Atmospheric Black Metal
Format: 4 Panel Digipack / 8 Page Booklet
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Laurentian Black Metal band Mavradoxa returns with their second album “Lethean Lament” - an introspective and majestic album that is expansive, atmospheric, and melancholic. The entire album encapsulates a whirlwind of emotion from raw carnal aggression, nature reverence, despair, longing, and bliss. Honest genuine music for fans of Agalloch, Alda, and Falls of Rauros.
Vin de Mia Trix - Palimpsests [2CD]
Release: May 31, 2017
Style: Progressive Extreme Doom 
Format: 6 Panel Digipack / 36 Page Booklet (Co-release with Cimmerian Shade Recordings)
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Palimpsests is an album about archetypes, the stories and characters that exist deep inside our collective subconsciousness, stories so significant and influential that they appear in various peoples' and cultures' mythology. Musically, “Palimpsests” is rooted in Extreme Doom, venturing occasionally into the territories of Prog Rock and Post-Metal.
NONE - selftitled
Release: April 11, 2017
Style: Atmospheric / Depressive Black Metal
Format: 6 Panel Digipack
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Chilling and despondent music from the Pacific Northwest. Make no mistake, this music is fucking cold and would serve as a perfect soundtrack to your death. An endless blizzard in a vast tundra. An album that will certainly appeal to Atmospheric Black Metal and DSBM listeners of such groups as Shining, Coldworld, and Woods of Desolation.
*This is an "internet" cover.
The printed booklet has two different
covers - one for each band.
Black Tremor / Sea Witch
Release: March 24, 2017
Style: Progressive Folk Doom / Atmospheric Doom
Format: Jewel Case / 8 Page Booklet (Reversable Covers) (Co-release with Sunmask)
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Sunmask and Hypnotic Dirge present a split release from two of the best heavy instrumental bands out of Canada: The stoner folk doom of the prairies - Black Tremor, and the atmospheric nautical doom of the maritimes - Sea Witch.  Presented in a jewel case with reversible covers as well as a limited edition cassette through Sunmask. 
netra - Ingrats
Release: March 9, 2017
Style: Experimental Black Metal / Darkwave / Trip-hop
Format: 4 Panel Sleeve / 8 Page Booklet
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The third full-length album“Ingrats” (french for “ungrateful ones”) is filled with raw and honest music that speaks to a common despair, internal psychosis, and the monotony of modern life. The Black Metal feels urgent and sharp as ice, while the heavily distorted guitar tone is absolutely perfect as a contrast juxtaposed against the ominous darkwave melodies. 
Obitus - Slaves of the Vast Machine
Release: February 16, 2017
Style: Apocalyptic Black Metal
Format: Jewel Case / 4 Page Inlay (Co-release with Black Plague Records)
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'Slaves of the Vast Machine' conveys human aimlessness and desperation amidst total social control with some brilliant icy riffs and dissonant tones. This is harsh progressive post-Black Metal that is relentless and chaotic from start to finish with some really solid tremolo-picking melodies, inexorable atmosphere, and a complete disregard for humanity. 


Official Releases - Digital Only
2017


Mavradoxa / Deafest [Split]
Release: November 12, 2017
Style: Atmospheric Black Metal
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Mavradoxa and Deafest present a new autumnal themed split album from two sides of North America! 
Mavradoxa is an atmospheric black metal band rooted in the Laurentian region of upstate New York. The music of Mavradoxa is expansive, atmospheric, and melancholic. Deafest is a project founded by Chase Ambler in Denver, Colorado. Deafest plays an instrumental ode to the beauty and awe of nature.

Ancient Tundra - All Light Has Since Escaped Me
Release: February 6, 2017
Style: Atmospheric / Ambient Black Metal
Format: Digital Only
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Digital-only single track from the ambient / atmospheric Black Metal project Ancient Tundra. 
Ancient Tundra is an old project of label founder N Skog, which has been reborn in the fall of 2016 and is now working towards a new full-length album. 
Guest Vocals from Damian Smith from Altars of Grief. 



Official Releases - Physical Media
2016


Harrow - Fragments of a Fallen Star 
Release: November 8, 2016 (Re-issue)
Style: Dark Folk / Cascadian Black Metal
Format: 4 Panel Digipack / 4 Page Booklet 
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Crafting a cathartic experience through introspective yet raw music, “Fragments of a Fallen Star” explores space by combining psychedelic drone, acoustic passages, and energetic atmospheric black metal. An album rooted in claustrophobic and raw, yet atmospheric and infectious black metal, interlaced with haunting synth, and transcendent folk melodies. 
Frigoris - Nur ein Moment...
Release: August 25, 2016
Style: Post-Black Metal
Format: 4 Panel Digipack / 12 Page Booklet 
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Frigoris is a post black metal band rooted in the heart of the ruhr-area, Germany. The combination between Black Metal riffing and craftsmanship as well as a postmodern approach towards atmosphere and lyrics form a synthesis that results in long, atmospheric but melodious songs. Lyrical concept of a protagonist who faces the consequences of suicide in an interior journey.
Subterranean Disposition - Contagiuum and the Landscapes of Failure
Release: June 13, 2016
Style: Experimental Doom-Death Metal
Format: Jewel Case / 8 Page Booklet (Co-release with Solitude Productions)
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Nearly four years after releasing the debut self-titled album, Melbourne based Experimental Death-Doom band Subterranean Disposition returns with a massive new full-length album entitled “Contagiuum and the Landscapes of Failure.” an unmistakably bold, creative, and forward-thinking album that incorporates as many elements and techniques outside doom as within.
Negative Voice - Cold Redrafted
Release: April 11, 2016
Style: Melodic Blackened Doom / Post-Metal
Format: Jewel Case / 12 Page Booklet (Co-release with Solitude Productions)
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“Cold, Redrafted” builds upon what is found on the debut and adds a lot of new elements as well. At its core, the album is still Blackened Doom in the vein of the genre giants, but on this album Negative Voice expands, adding clean vocals, experimenting with song structure and textures, and including influences from other genres, enthralling melodies and a progressive sound.
Immensity - The Isolation Splendour
Release: March 21, 2016
Style: Gothic Doom/Death Metal
Format: Jewel Case / 8 Page Booklet (Co-release with Solitude Productions)
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A mature sound emanates from the memorable melodies and captivating atmosphere in “The Isolation Splendour” combining the essential feeling of early 90’s doom metal such as early-Paradise Lost, and My Dying Bride while also providing the melancholic gothic-tinge of bands such as Draconian or The Foreshadowing. A thick wall of sound soaked in melancholy and grief.


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2016


Subarctic Nocturnes : Below the Wilted Grove [Volume III - MMXVI]
Release: November 26, 2016
Style: Compilation Album [Mostly Dark Neo-Folk / Acoustic Rock]
Format: Digital Only
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For those who revel in the simple yet brilliant sounds of acoustic medleys, haunting vocals, trance-inducing rhythms, and droning violins, this is a collection not to be missed! Fit for the rustic scenes of this dying season, “Below the Wilted Grove” is sure to ease you into the most bitter of months ahead, as we’re lowered once again into the cold grave of another merciless winter. 


Official Releases - Physical Media
2015


Womb - Deception Through Your Lies
Release: November 30, 2015
Style: Atmospheric / Funeral Doom Metal
Format: Jewel Case / 8 Page Booklet (Co-release with Solitude Productions)
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"Deception Through Your Lies” is heavy but melancholic music filled with endless melody will appeal to anyone who appreciates not only the outer side of doom death metal consisting of catchy riffs and dense guitar sound, but also its sensual side awakening thoughts and feelings. Atmospheric and deep doom with a pulse.
*This release has two album covers.
The image above is a mosaic of both.
Nachtterror / Altars of Grief - Of Ash and Dying Light
Release: July 22, 2015
Style: Black Metal / Blackened Doom Metal
Format: 10" Vinyl with insert. Printed by Pirate Press 
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A split record between two of the best Blackened Doom bands coming out of Saskatchewan! Nachtterror focuses on creating an epic Black Metal soundscape with an intense concentration on storytelling while Altars of Grief draws from an eclectic background, weaving soaring choral arrangements with powerful, driving death metal; morose doom and frantic black metal passages.
Verlies - Le Domaine des Hommes
Release: May 28, 2015
Style: Black Metal
Format: 4 Panel Digipack / 12 Page Booklet (Co-release with Throats Productions)
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Based out of the French city Lille, Verlies is an avant-garde Black Metal band playing dark, strange, and experimental music. Ranging from piercing and uncompromising Black Metal, to experimental jazz melodies, to post-rock sensibilities, and everything in between, the music is raw, bold, and truly exceptional. 
Orphans of Dusk - Revenant
Release: May 4, 2015
Style: Gothic Doom-Death Metal
Format: Jewel Case / 4 Page Booklet (Co-release with Solitude Productions)
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Orphans of Dusk is a gothic death/doom band being projected into the stars from the South Pacific Ocean, New Zealand/Australia. Immense, powerful, and atmospheric doom riffs coalescing with soft melodic textures and melancholy! For fans of Type O Negative, Woods of Ypres, My Dying Bride, The Foreshadowing, Swallow the Sun, etc. 
Norilsk - The Idea of North
Release: March 10, 2015
Style: Sludge / Blackened Doom Metal
Format: 4 Panel Digipack / 12 Page Booklet 
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“The Idea of North” is a doom-death album crafted for the winter season: it has slow and crushing riffs, death growls, and atmospheric arrangements. An evocation of an ominous presence over a vast wasteland, Inspired by the multi-faceted Canadian experience of the North, the album explores themes of darkness, isolation, identity, archaism and persistence.
Atten Ash - The Hourglass
Release: February 19, 2015
Style: Atmospheric Death-Doom Metal
Format: 4 Panel Digipack / 12 Page Booklet
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A three-piece atmospheric/melodic death-doom band from North Carolina. Those pining for genuine melodic/atmospheric death-doom for the dark and cold days ahead, and especially fans and listeners of bands such as Daylight Dies, Slumber, Katatonia, Woccon, Doom:vs, October Tide, and Helevorn would be wise to heed attention.
*This release has two album covers. 
The image above is a split of both.
Lycanthia / Atten Ash - Split 7"
Release: January 22, 2015
Style: Gothic Doom Metal / Melodic Death-Doom Metal 
Format: 7" Vinyl With Insert
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Doom bands Lycanthia and Atten Ash have collaborated to deliver a new limited split 7" this winter. Featuring “The Harbinger” for Lycanthia, and “City in the Sea” for Atten Ash, this split will serve as a prelude to each band's forthcoming full-length albums as well as present a very first vinyl release for everyone involved!


Official Releases - Digital Only
2015


Subarctic Nocturnes : Within the Ice [Volume II - MMXV]
Release: April 2, 2015
Style: Compilation Album [Black Metal]
Format: Digital Only
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A few weeks ago, we released the compilation under the Subarctic Nocturnes banner.  Now, we present to you "Subarctic Nocturnes: Within the Ice [Volume II]", a collection of Black Metal and associated genres! Including songs from Sorcier des Glaces, netra, Veldes, Epitimia, Harrow, Obsidian Tongue, and Numenorean.
Subarctic Nocturnes : Doomed to Be [Volume I - MMXV]
Release: February 13, 2015
Style: Compilation Album [Doom Metal]
Format: Digital Only
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Presenting the latest Hypnotic Dirge digital compilation album! This year, we are releasing something more comprehensive than before, with a compilation series which will have a different genre focus on each volume and which we will release over the course of the next few months. We are pleased to unveil the first album in this series now, with a focus on all things doom! 


Official Releases - Physical Media
2014


Epitimia - (Un)reality 2CD
Release: February 15, 2014
Style: Post-Black Metal / Blackgaze 
Format: 6 Panel Digipack / 12 Page Booklet
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Epitimia's new double-album "(Un)reality" is a culmination of over a year's hard work. Tortured black metal screams alongside a progressive and experimental cacophony of sounds combine to create a memorable and complex album taking various elements from many genres including post-rock, black metal, blackgaze, ambient, and jazz to create a sonic palette for this conceptual story. 
Windbruch - No Stars, Only Full Dark
Release: February 1, 2014
Style: Atmospheric / Melancholic Black Metal
Format: Jewel Case / 8 Page Booklet
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Cold and mesmerizing atmospheric black metal from the Siberian region of Yugra in the city of Nizhnevartovsk, Windbruch presents their second full-length album “No stars, only full dark” an album with a strong cinematic component. An ode to all things cold, bleak, and distressing, “No stars, only full dark” is the perfect soundtrack for lonely cold winter nights. 
In my Shiver - Delicate Poison
Release: January 17, 2014
Style: Melancholic Blackgaze / Post-Rock
Format: Jewel Case / 12 Page Booklet
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In my Shiver is an experimental black metal/shoegaze band from Camerino, Italy with conceptual themes about the loneliness and sadness of modern life, cityscapes, and a critique of the dominant culture. Combining oppressive and ferocious black metal with melancholic modern depressive rock, In My Shiver blends these sounds to give these songs a strong melancholic aura. 



Official Releases - Physical Media
2013


Ekove Efrits - Nowhere
Release: December 16, 2013
Style: Neo-classical / Down-tempo / Atmospheric Metal
Format: Jewel Case / 16 Page Booklet
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Ekove Efrits, the atmospheric project hailing from Tehran, Iran returns with his fourth full-length album, entitled "Nowhere", offering fifty minutes of twisted, dark, sombre, and atmospheric music intertwined with black metal stylistics, female vocals, and electronic/trip-hop elements. “Nowhere” will deliver a total trip for the mind and promises to be a visual experience as well as a sonic one!
stroszek - wild years of remorse and failures [2CD]
Release: December 7, 2013
Style: Melancholic Dark Folk Rock
Format: Double Jewel Case / 16 Page Booklet
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The acclaimed early works of the folk/acoustic project stroszek presented in the form of a special double-album reissue with a complete remastering of all the tracks, as well as rerecorded vocals on the “songs of remorse” album. Originally released between 2007-2009, this reissue, featuring new album art allows you to embrace the darkness and melancholy of stroszek once more.
Vin de Mia Trix - Once Hidden From Sight
Release: August 26, 2013
Style: Death-Doom Metal
Format: Jewel Case / 12 Page Booklet
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Lengthy mid-tempo opuses with crushing funeral riffs morphing into melancholic acoustic passages create a mysterious and dark atmosphere with songs rooted between Funeral and Death/Doom Metal, but incorporating bits of Black Metal, Post-Rock, Progressive Metal, Blues and more. “Once Hidden From Sight” offers every fan of dark music something for the soul!"
Obsidian Tongue - A Nest of Ravens in the Throat of Time
Release: July 29, 2013
Style: Atmospheric Black Metal
Format: Jewel Case / 6 Page Inlay
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Cold, unwavering, primal black metal - “A Nest of Ravens in the Throat of Time” is a psychedelic and introspective journey through the collective unconscious of Man and the dark half of the emotional spectrum; A sonic depiction of the spiritual affirmation and personal evolution attainable only through sorrow, anger and disillusionment. 
Galaktik Cancer Squad Ghost Light
Release: June 21, 2013
Style: Progressive Black Metal
Format: Jewel Case / 8 Page Booklet
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From the vacuous depths of space, the great pathogenic force of Galaktik Cancer Squad will once again return to haunt the aural realms of the earth with their first ever physical release, ‘Ghost Light.’ Aggressive, and experimental post-black metal with cacophonous discordant vocals combine with moments of soaring post-rock melancholy that make you soar to other dimensions. 
Nethermost - Alpha
Release: June 14, 2013
Style: Death-Doom Metal
Format: Jewel Case / 4 Page Inlay
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The name Nethermost refers to the lowest point of existence and is also the name of the melodic death-doom band hailing from south Texas. Mid-paced melodic doom metal with an emphasis on atmosphere conjure up an honest organic sound rooted in the mid-90's death-doom sound. Alpha should also appeal to fans of bands such as Katatonia, October Tide, and Daylight Dies
Frigoris - Wind
Release: June 7, 2013
Style: Atmospheric Black Metal
Format: Jewel Case / 8 Page Booklet
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Frigoris' second album, entitled "Wind" is a big step in the evolution and development of this band. The over fifty minute piece was filled with a surpassing emotional intensity that created a bond between pure aggression and deep melancholy.  For fans of Agalloch, Wolves in the Throne Room, Fen, and Imperium Dekadenz
Lycanthia - Oligarchy
Release: April 7, 2013
Style: Atmospheric / Gothic Death-Doom
Format: 4 Panel Digipack / 8 Page Insert
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 Lycanthia is a six-piece gothic death-doom metal band from Sydney, Australia. Their music can be described as dark, aggressive and emotional Gothic Doom Metal. Consisting of grim male and dual female vocals, violins, keyboards, guitars and drums, Lycanthia continue that "golden age" traditional-doom sound with influences such as My Dying Bride & Theatre of Tragedy.
Odradek Room - Bardo. Relative Reality.
Release: March 9, 2013
Style: Psychedelic Death-Doom Metal
Format: 4 Panel Digipack / 12 Page Booklet
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Creating dynamic and profound music, rich in tempo and mood variation, Odradek Room has crafted an extremely strong debut combining slow plodding riffs, soaring emotional melodies, and a psychedelic touch to create a rich canvas of sonic majesty. A conceptual album based on the ideas of the Tibetan Book of the Dead and surreal images of the subliminal consciousness.



Official Releases - Digital Only
2013


Hypnotic Dirge 2013​/​14 | The Wild Haunts Us Still; Disillusionment and Indifference
Release: December 3, 2013
Style: Compilation Album [Doom Metal]
Format: Digital Only
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The fifth annual Hypnotic Dirge Records digital compilation album which is separated into two distinct albums and tracklists. This is the doom metal collection, entitled "Disillusionment and Indifference" Includes material from Lycanthia, Odradek Room, Vin de Mia Trix, Subterranean Disposition, Wine From Tears, Cuukoo's Nest, Negative Voice, and others.
Hypnotic Dirge 2013​/​14 | The Wild Haunts Us Still; Decay and Atrophy
Release: December 3, 2013
Style: Compilation Album [Black Metal]
Format: Digital Only
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The fifth annual Hypnotic Dirge Records digital compilation which is separated into two distinct albums and tracklists. This is  the black metal collection, entitled "Decay and Atrophy", ncludes material from Obsidian Tongue, Frigoris, Galaktik Cancer Squad, In my Shiver, Ekove Efrits, netra, Windbruch, Epitimia, Zgard, Psychotic Gardening, and Dråpsnatt
netra feat. We'rewolves - Dreading Consciousness
Release: November 18, 2013
Style: Trip-Hop / Black Metal
Format: Digital Only
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A strange and unexpected collaboration between the black metal/trip-hop hybrid netra and the unconventional rap duo We'rewolves. Always present to a certain degree, the trip-hop elements in netra's music are given full reigns on "Dread Consciousness". The dark undertones of urban life, boredom, and depression remain but are instead presented through a totally different approach. 
Australasia - Sin4tr4
Release: May 11, 2013
Style: Post-Rock / Post-Black Metal
Format: Digital Only
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Australasia is the place where unusual soundscapes come to life: ethereal guitars mix with blast beat drums and black metal riffing, giving birth to strange and fast-flowing tunes. 
Here subterranean streams alternate with tidal waves, turning into cinematic pictures that can last just the blink of an eye. A path distant from the typical instrumental music clichés. 
Depicting Abysm / Windbruch / Gmork - Silentium!
Release: April 11, 2013
Style: Atmospheric / Melancholic Black Metal
Format: Digital Only
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3-way split between three atmospheric black metal bands from Russia! Depicting Abysm, Windbruch, and Gmork each contribute three tracks to a comprehensive work entitled "Silentium!" Silence – it is a pause between two emotional strikes, but even there a “scream” can take place. In this case, the choice of the song order is not accidental.
Truthseeker - Weightless at Dawn
Release: January 12, 2013
Style: Instrumental / Atmospheric Rock
Format: Digital Only
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Truthseeker is an instrumental rock band with a dense and atmospheric sound. Their debut EP "Weightless at Dawn" features 5 slow, cinematic tracks characterized by reverb-soaked lead guitars, huge drums, textural rhythm guitars and a thick distorted bass sound. There are traces of Prog-Rock, Metal, Post-Rock/Metal, Doom and Ambient music throughout the record.



Official Releases - Physical Media
2012


Subterranean Disposition - selftitled
Release: October 27, 2012
Style: Progressive Death-Doom Metal
Format: 6 Panel Digipack / 8 Page Booklet (100) | Jewel Case / 8 Page Booklet (400)
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Subterranean Disposition is an experimental death-doom project from Terry Vainoras, The debut self-titled Subterranean Disposition album explores  the use of dissonance and ambience, lending more dynamics to the long passages of darkness and light, crafted from the influence of early 90’s doom and modern sludge with forward thinking embellishments in song writing. 
netra - Sørbyen
Release: September 29, 2012
Style: Trip-hop / Black Metal / Alternative Rock
Format: Jewel Case / 8 Page Booklet
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With influences ranging from the moodiest jazz music to black metal and trip-hop, netra has always been about challenging the listener's open-mindedness and  'Sørbyen' shows netra continuing to evolve its experimental sound using a palette of varying musical and artistic influences to create an album that is claustrophobic, organic, and unmistakably depressing. 
Silent Path - Mourner Portraits
Release: July 28, 2012
Style: Depressive Black Metal / Funeral Doom
Format: Jewel Case / 16 Page Booklet
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Silent Path is another musical project from Saman Nu, the musician from Tehran, Iran behind the atmospheric Black Metal project, Ekove Efrits. With Silent Path the sound is grittier, darker, and much less optimistic and brings together elements of down-tempo depressive black metal, funeral doom, and ambience.
Epitimia - Faces of Insanity
Release: July 14, 2012
Style: Atmospheric Black Metal / Post-rock
Format: Jewel Case / 8 Page Booklet
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A three-piece atmospheric Black Metal, post-rock band from Saint-Petersburg, Russia, Epitimia's 'Faces of Insanity' album is the band's third full-length album. Combining an intriguing blend of atmospheric post-rock, and depressive black metal, this band has a strong capability for heavy doom, ambience, raw black metal, and a deep melancholy.
stroszek - sound graveyard bound
Release: March 10, 2012
Style: Neo-folk / Alternative Rock
Format: Jewel Case / Insert
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Mixing various influences including Tom Waits, and Johnny Cash, Stroszek is certainly not a typical band you'd expect to hear from someone coming from a black metal background. Instead, Stroszek is often described as "old music for old people" with its trademark sound mixing melancholic acoustic rock with american folk music and (real) country music. 
Old Forgotten Lands - Primal
Release: March 10, 2012
Style: Ambient / Neo-Folk
Format: Jewel Case / 8 Page Booklet
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The new material of Old Forgotten Lands shows a nice progression and has a much more natural and organic feeling. Making use of various unique instruments such as a Tibetan singing bowl, a tambourine, wooden flute, violin, timpani, maracas, among others, Primal is a fantastic album which shows maturity in a genre which can sometimes become repetitive and mundane.



Official Releases - Digital Only
2012


Hypnotic Dirge Records Compilation 2012/13 : Solipsist Anthems
Release: December 15, 2012
Style: Black Metal / Doom Metal / Ambient / Other
Format: Digital Only
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The fourth annual free digital compilation from Hypnotic Dirge Records. Over 2 and a half hours of music from all of the current projects on the label, as well as some outside guests from Solitude Productions, collaborative work, and more. Also comes with over 30 minutes of video, full album artwork, notes from all of the artists, and photography.
Ekove Efrits - Hypermnesia
Release: September 13, 2012
Style: Neo-Classical / Trip-hop
Format: Digital Only
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This is conceptual album with different genres from Ekove Efrits. the style is mainly experimental with elements of trip-hop, electronic music, and classical music. The voice on the track "Moonlight Departure" is from "Ahmad Shamlou" the great Iranian contemporary Poet (1925-2000). The model on the front side of cover art is Erato. Predicate sounds have been taken from real radio archives.
Galaktik Cancer Squad - The Gathering [Compilation]
Release: May 29, 2012
Style: Progressive Black Metal
Format: Digital Only
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The Gathering is a compilation album from Galaktik Cancer Squad including remastered songs of "Oceans of Piss and Blood" Split, "Isolation/Separation" Split, "Ewig Wachend" EP and two new tracks.




Official Releases - Physical Media
2011

Ov Hollowness - Drawn to Descend
Release: July 29, 2011
Style: Black Metal 
Format: Jewel Case / 12 Page Booklet
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After self-releasing a debut album in 2010, Ov Hollowness returns with a sophomore album one year later entitled 'Drawn to Descend'. Building upon the foundations of the 'Diminished' album, 'Drawn to Descend' is a fairly straight forward album with strong use of eerie guitar solos, effective drumming, catchy melodies, and thrash riffs which all combine to make a solid black metal album.
Ekove Efrits - Conceptual Horizon
Release: July 29, 2011
Style: Experimental Black Metal
Format: Jewel Case / 16 Page Booklet
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Ekove Efrits' Conceptual Horizon is a musically varied, album rooted within the Black metal genre  but is also an album that is able to bridge many different emotions together into one relevant and stable concept. Hate, Aggression, Love, Depression, and Melancholy all find a place in an album which is filled with captivating and hypnotic melodies. The best melancholic black metal band from Iran!
Funeral Fornication - Pandemic Transgression
Release: July 29, 2011
Style: Eclectic Progressive Ambient Black Metal 
Format: Jewel Case / 12 Page Booklet
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Funeral Fornication is back with their new album Pandemic Transgression. Experimental, unique, catchy, bleak, depressing, yet difficult to define.  Sole-member Vultyrous shows his ability to write captivating material using a variety of influences to create a strong mix of dark and melancholic music that shows that maturity of this evolving project. The necessary soundtrack to your funeral fucking fornications!



Official Releases - Digital Only
2011

stroszek - a break in the day
Release: July 18, 2011
Style: Melancholic Rock
Format: Digital Only
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A Break In The Day" features the music which was formerly recorded @ Big Wave studio for "the Wild Hunt" EP. Nat wrote her own lyrics and sang. The same goes for "Hotel", but this was recorded at home by Dan. Cover picture was taken by Donna. A very special thanx to Dustin for bringin' these songs to life. [This album was later re-released on CD edition by Pest Productions with additional tracks]
Deprived of Light - Coloured Death
Release: April 9, 2011
Style: Post-Rock / Metal
Format: Digital Only
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Deprived of Light is a collaboration between Lord Trowe - The Foetal Mind, and Psychotic - Phychocalypse. Together they form a post-rock influenced metal album with strong melodic guitar work, and hints of black and doom metal. This is not an easy album to catergorize, especially considering the three different projects that the songs belong to.

 

Official Releases - Physical Media
2010

netra - Mélancolie urbaine
Release: December 16, 2010
Style: Depressive Black Metal, Trip-hop, Alternative
Format: Jewel Case / 4 Page Booklet
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The street lights are colder than usual, how come I am so moved ? I feel the urge to escape, to make everything vanish for a while. Mélancolie urbaine album is one of the most original albums to be released in a long time and is truly unique. This album is an incredible journey to your innermost thoughts and nightmares and transcends the typical depressive black metal soundscapes for something more interesting.
The Foetal Mind - The Grand Contraction
Release: December 16, 2010
Style: Instrumental Post-Metal 
Format: Jewel Case / 4 Page Booklet
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A largely instrumental metal album, filled with powerful, catchy and atmospheric riffs that bring about the concept of The Grand Contraction. A very guitar based album that should please all metal fans regardless of genre, The Foetal Mind's new album shows a massive change from their DSBM beginnings. The guitar work is highly melodic, catchy, and much more prolific in its approach than before.  

Uruk-Hai / Funeral Fornication [Split Album]
Release: September 19, 2010
Style: Ambient Black Metal
Format: Jewel Case / 4 Page Booklet [CD-r release]
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As a precursor to Funeral Fornication's forthcoming full-length album 'Pandemic Transgression', comes the split album with Austria's legendary Uruk-Hai, a project that Vultyrous has cited as a strong influence throughout his many years as a musician. Uruk-Hai delivers his brand of epic, LOTR-inspired ambient black metal in the vein of Summoning, while Funeral Fornication continues to grow with each sequential release.
Our Diabolical Embrance - Immortal Night Laments [EP]
Release: September 19, 2010
Style: Symphonic Black Metal
Format: Jewel Case / 12 Page Booklet [CD-r release]
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Exiled From Light - There is No Beauty Left Here... [2CD]
Release: July 22, 2010
Style: Depressive Black Metal
Format: Jewel Case / 12 Page Booklet
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Exiled From Light has quickly risen the ranks of Depressive Black Metal scene, and we are pleased to announce the release of the second monumental album - 'There is no beauty left here...' Another excellent example of the human mind's descent into depravity and agony, There is no beauty left here... picks up where the debut album left off and takes the musicianship and atmosphere to a whole new level.
Symbiosis / Ancient Tundra - These Engulfing Winds Never Die [Split Album] [CD+DVD]
Release: March 11, 2010
Style: Dark Ambient, Neo-Classical, Soundtrack
Format: Jewel Case / 12 Page Booklet [CD-r / DVD-r release]
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For over a year now, ambient artists Ancient Tundra and Symbiosis have worked towards creating a monumental dark ambient release that showcased both the audio and video aspects of the genre. These Engulfing Winds Never Die is the result of over a year`s work writing / recording music and filming nature in its harshest elements. From the frozen Canadian prairies to the mountains of Italy.



Official Releases - Digital Only
2010

Funeral in Heaven - Shanthikarma [Live EP; 2010]
Release: May 11, 2010
Style: Black Metal
Format: Digital Only
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In the distant horizons of antiquity, Sri Lanka was an Island kissed by nature, blessed by gods, haunted be demons, gripped by mysteries and ruled by occultism. Funeral In Heaven, is nothing more than a congregation of a few concerned and ardent individuals belonging to one of the few and remaining cautiously orchestrated systems of preservation of the dark arts of Sri Lanka. 



Official Releases - Physical Media
2009

The Foetal Mind - Supreme Cheminement
Release: December 19, 2009
Style: Depressive Black Metal 
Format: Jewel Case / 4 Page Booklet [CD-r release]
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After releasing five self-released demos between July 2007 and April 2009, The Foetal Mind unleashes their first full-length album "Supreme Cheminement." The Foetal Mind has created a soundscape with beautiful atmosphere and raw emotion expressed so strongly. "Supreme Cheminement" is loaded with memorable hypnotizing riffs that ride the wave of sorrow and despair. 
Neige et Noirceur - L'Abime des jours, L'ecume des nuits
Release: December 19, 2009
Style: Ambient Black Metal 
Format: Jewel Case / 12 Page Booklet [CD-r release]
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The songs feautred on this double-disc album were released as 2 separate demos. The tracks on CD I were previously released on Demo III: "L’Abîme des jours, l’écume des nuits" and the tracks on CD II were released on demo IV: "Court séjour au royaume des morts." All of these songs were recorded in the same time period, so the idea to combine these pieces came to us naturally.
Old Forgotten Lands / Ancient Tundra - Equinox
Release: September 2, 2009
Style: Dark Ambient, Neo-Classical, Soundtrack
Format: Jewel Case / 8 Page Booklet [CD-r release]
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Old Forgotten Lands combines synergistic field recordings with dreamy and nostalgic synth tones that captures the essence of the natural world, while Ancient Tundra creates a colder sound that carry forlorn and melancholic melodies across barren landscapes. This album shows both artists continue to evolve from their earlier works and add new dynamics to their sound. The Equinox is Upon us!
Exiled From Light - Descending Further into Nothingness
Release: July 11, 2009
Style: Depressive Black Metal 
Format: Jewel Case / 8 Page Booklet [CD-r release]
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New Zealand's most prolific black metal musician Mort (Winds of Sorrow, When Mine Eyes Blacken) has created a mesmerizing, truly expressive piece of musical art in the form of an intelligent depressive-black metal album that feels both genuine and musically-accomplished. Six great tracks of pure melancholy across 50 minutes of music. Highly recommended for all fans of Depressive Black Metal art!
Funeral Fornication - Solitude and Suicide
Release: June 18, 2009
Style: Ambient Black Metal 
Format: Jewel Case / 12 Page Booklet [CD-r release]
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Funeral Fornication's third full-length album 'Solitude and Suicide' is a new approach for this canadian project which has traditionally followed a pagan/thrash black metal musical identity. On "Solitude and Suicide" we are presented with a grim and powerful yet at times contemplative album that defines the beginning of a new, darker era in the legacy that is Funeral Fornication.
Immundus - Haunted Memories
Release: April 28, 2009
Style: Dark / Horror Ambient
Format: 4 Panel Digipack
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Neige et Noirceur - Crepuscule Hivernal sans fin sur les Terres de la Guere
Release: March 6, 2009
Style: Atmospheric Ambient Black Metal 
Format: Jewel Case / 4 Page Booklet [CD-r release]
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Total dark art and blackness from Québec! Fans of Darkspace and Atmospheric Cosmic Black Metal will enjoy this Métal noir québécois! 
Astral Luminous - Lunaric Tide
Release: April 27, 2009
Style: Atmospheric Black Metal
Format: Jewel Case / 12 Page Booklet [CD-r release]
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Astral Luminous is a one man Black Metal project from Texas. Inspired by the cosmos, astral projection, and human philosophy, this is an album filled with hypnotic riffs and trance-inducing ambience. Physical edition includes a beautiful 8 page booklet designed by Ba'al Graphics.
Echoes of Silence - Beyond the Crimson Gates
Release: January 6, 2009
Style: Experimental Black Metal 
Format: Jewel Case / 4 Page Booklet [CD-r release]
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Official Releases - Physical Media
2008

Ancient Tundra - Requiems of a World Lost
Release: November 24, 2008
Style: Ambient, Neo-Classical, Soundtrack
Format: Jewel Case / 4 Page Booklet [CD-r release]
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Desolate, hypnotic, and dissonant dark ambient with hints of neo-classical and a slight black metal aesthetic and atmosphere. Distant melodies shrouded in layers and obscured by the winds of winter are heard amidst strings, piano harmonies, distant percussion, and the occasional haunted whisper. A post-apocalyptic 
world - vast, cold, and dead - where nature reigns supreme and conditions are unfit for human life. 
Winds of Sorrow - Through Twilight...
Release: November 24, 2008
Style: Melodic / Depressive Black Metal 
Format: Jewel Case / 4 Page Booklet [CD-r release]
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The debut album from Mort's (Exiled From Light, Schizophrenia, When Mine Eyes Blacken) Atmospheric Black Metal Project. Beautiful Melodies and Absorbing Atmospheres, an album with the potential to be uplifting yet still be depressive! A different side of Mort's multi-faceted musical path.