Hypnotic Dirge Records Manifesto
[Summer 2017 Interview with Another Metal Review Blog ]
This section is under construction. An update will come in April 2023.
Hypnotic Dirge Records is an underground metal label based in two locations, our headquarters in Amadora, Portugal and our warehouse in Saskatchewan, Canada.
When you place an order, it will be shipped from Canada. Over the years, we have released music covering a wide spectrum of genres within underground metal, but our primary focus is on Atmospheric Black Metal, Post-Black Metal, Depressive Black Metal, and Doom Metal.
Active since 2008, we have released roughly 100 releases from bands such as NONE, Altars of Grief, Frigoris, netra, Nachtterror, Maeskyyrn, Ov Shadows, Wills Dissolve, Marche Funebre, Forlesen, Norilsk, Mavradoxa, Sertraline, Forlsen, Feral Light, The Haunting Green, Kval, Omination, Chiral, Atten Ash, Obisidian Tongue, Exiled From Light, Windbruch, Odradek Room, Subterranean Disposition, Negative Voice, stroszek, Epitimia, Harrow, Verlies, Lycanthia, and more
Visit our Bandcamp page for unlimited downloads of all our releases for no minimum price! You can download anything we have released in the file format of your choice with an optional donation. Physical copies and merch are available both on our official webshop and on Bandcamp. You will find a modest Distro carrying a small selection of titles from outside on our label on our webshop as well.
As our manifesto is under construction, we have deleted the 2018 version and will soon post an update.
For now, all you need to know is:
-Hypnotic Dirge Records is based in Portugal and Canada
-Hypnotic Dirge has been active since 2008 and started in Saskatchewan
-We have an online shop/distro and ship almost anywhere in the world
-All our releases are available to download for no minimum cost on Bandcamp
-We have released over 90 physical albums and additional digital-only releases
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CURRENT DEMO STATUS:
*as of February 2023
WE ARE NOW ACCEPTING DEMOS
We are now accepting demo submissions once again for potential release in 2023 and beyond.
Please send demos to hypnoticdirgerecords@hotmail.com with the name of your band in the subject line.
We are primarily seeking out bands that play Atmospheric Black Metal, Post-Black Metal, Depressive Black Metal and Doom Metal, however we listen to everything we get, even if it's just for a few minutes. Explicitly RABM, Leftist, and Anti-Fascist bands interest us very much and we will absolute ignore anyone playing NSBM or who has or has ever had any Fascist or reactionary connections in the past.
When sending a Demo, please send the completed album, not a single track.
Please also include the album art, a bio, and an EPK (Electronic Press Kit) if these things are ready. They are not absolutely required for us to consider your demo, but the more completed of a picture of the eventual release you can give us, the better. Put everything in a ZIP folder, upload it to Google Drive, Dropbox, or a similar host and send us the link. (No WeTransfer links please as they expire in a week).
If your album has already been released digitally, we will consider releasing it on physical medium (CD or Vinyl). If this is the case, you're welcome to send a streaming link to listen to your album (Bandcamp, Youtube, or similar) rather than a ZIP folder to download.
We listen to everything we receive, even if briefly, but unfortunately we don't have the time to respond to everyone. Running a label is a lot of work and there simply isn't the time to send a personal response to every band. If we don't respond, that doesn't mean we didn't like your music but only that we are not interested in working together at the current time - maybe we have a full release schedule, maybe we have potential releases we wanna keep space for, or maybe we liked your album but felt that it wasn't the best fit for HDR. We of course aim to respond to everyone we'd like to work with in a timely manner but sometimes we fall behind or we have a lot on our plate with current releases, so please wait up to one month for a response to your demo.
Thank you for considering HDR for your release!