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Norilsk announces signing with Hypnotic Dirge Records for the release of its debut full-length album!

December 12, 2014

Norilsk announces signing with Hypnotic Dirge Records for the release of its debut full-length album!

December 12, 2014

Named after Siberia’s northernmost city, home of a famous heavy metal smelting complex, Norilsk is a doom-death band from Gatineau (Québec), Canada, who self-released their debut EP “Japetus” this past summer. Characterized by slow and crushing riffs, death growls, and atmospheric arrangements, its music draws comparison with doom-death bands such as My Dying Bride, Morgion and Ablaze in Hatred, but it also has a few sludge/post metal elements reminiscent of Isis and Morne. The two core band members include Nicolas Miquelon (bass, guitars, vocals, lyrics) and Nick Richer (drums, backing vocals), whose names are associated with various groups including Outrage AD, Damnus, Doll and Kintra.

The aforementioned introductory EP “Japetus” was always meant as a precursor to the eventual debut full-length album which was recorded at the same time and will be released through Hypnotic Dirge Records in early 2015.

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Nicolas Miquelon - Music, Vocals, Texts
Nick Richer - Drums, Backing Vocals (and photo concept)

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Pre-order begins: HDR - V - 001 : Lycanthia / Atten Ash [Split 7" Vinyl]

December 6, 2014

Lycanthia and Atten Ash announce release of split 7" Vinyl December 6, 2014

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! There will only be 300 copies printed with 140 available for sale through Hypnotic Dir...

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Webshop Update - December 2014

December 3, 2014

Webshop Update - December 2014

Short and to the point this time. We have some new titles available in the webshop this month though it's a quite small amount because currently our focus is on preparing our upcoming releases. Nonetheless, there's some nice music here and especially recommended is the latest release from Sorcier des Glaces (though it's already been out since the start of 2014)

Latest Additions section

-All albums listed below are in this section

HDR - D - 703 : Atra Hora - Via Comb...

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Webshop Update - November 2014

November 2, 2014

Webshop Update - November 2014

A rather small update this time around, but a few things worthy of your time.

We brought in the debut Nethermost full-length 'Noetic' released in September 2014 on Horror Pain Gore Death Productions, as well as a handful of CD's from Nova Scotia based Death / Black Metal label Blast Head Records.

Perhaps the most exciting items in the update though are the Convivial Hermit Magazines, from Issue 4 back in 2008 through to Issue 7 which was released last month. A f...

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Hypnotic Dirge General Update

October 1, 2014

After a calm past few months, work is now being undertaken regarding plans for 2015 album releases! Asides from providing for a little more down time than usual, the last few months have also been used to reorganize the website as well as to refine our intentions and objectives for the months to come.

Finally, a thorough and detailed Manifesto has been completed giving an overview of our operations as well as information on a variety of subjects.

For the sake of some consistency, webshop updat...

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Webshop Update: October 2014

October 1, 2014

Webshop Update - October 2014

There a lot of fine new additions to the webshop this October including new albums from The Morningside, Helevorn, Doom:VS, and When Bitter Spring Sleeps among others, as well as the debut album from Saskatchewan's newest death-doom band Altars of Grief!

From now on, all webshop updates will occur monthly at the beginning of each month to create a more consistent and reliable pattern. New Solitude Productions releases will also be included in the monthly webshop up...

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Distro Update: 33 New Titles added!

August 16, 2014

Distro Update: 33 new titles

It has been a fairly slow summer for new additions to the webshop but finally here is an update with 33 new albums added to the shop! There are a lot of really good gems in this list so look carefully! As usual, you can find music from each of these albums on their pages in the webshop.

HDR - D - 645 : Kozeljnik - Null: The Acheron Of Mutiform Negation

HDR - D - 646 : Permanent Midnight - Under The Blood Moon

HDR - D - 647 : Root - Kargeras

HDR - D - 648 : Elderbloo...

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Hypnotic Dirge Records will be at Metal Wizard Open Air 2014

July 6, 2014

Hypnotic Dirge Records will once again be present for the second annual Metal Wizard Open Air Festival on Saturday July 12, 2014. We will have a merch stand set up with a fine selection of CD's and shirts from our own releases and from the distro including a box of 50 dedicated to Black Metal, a box of 50 dedicated to Doom Metal, and 50 of our specific recommendations!

This year, all CD's will be $5.00 and all shirts will be $10.00, a very special low price for Metal Wizard only!

You can also...

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Distro Update: 24 New Titles, 2 New Shirts

May 29, 2014

Webshop Update!

Lots of really nice additions including six Skepticism albums, a couple Frostmoon Eclipse albums, the Kamera Obskur album (side project of Lunar Aurora) an Ulver shirt, a Thy Catafalque shirt, and more!

Here is a link to all the LATEST ADDITIONS

They are also all listed here:

HDR - D - 621 : Keen of the Crow - Permonition

HDR - D - 622 : Keen of the Crow - Hyborea

HDR - D - 623 : Fall of Empyrean - A Life Spent Dying

HDR - D - 624 : Kamera Obskur - Bildfänger

HDR - D - 625 : Skeptic...

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All digital downloads on Bandcamp now set to free download!‏

May 14, 2014

All digital albums on Bandcamp are now available for free download / by-donation!!

This means you don't need to pay $5.00 for the digital download of our releases anymore, but rather can pay whatever you want, or download the album(s) for free!!

Enjoy the music, and please spread the word about this.

If we're going to have the downloads available for free, we want as many people as possible to gain access to this music!

Our philosophy is rooted in the principle of open-source and unlimited ac...

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Norilsk announces signing with Hypnotic Dirge Records for the release of its debut full-length album!

Pre-order begins: HDR - V - 001 : Lycanthia / Atten Ash [Split 7" Vinyl]

Webshop Update - December 2014

Webshop Update - November 2014

Hypnotic Dirge General Update

Webshop Update: October 2014

Distro Update: 33 New Titles added!

Hypnotic Dirge Records will be at Metal Wizard Open Air 2014

Distro Update: 24 New Titles, 2 New Shirts

All digital downloads on Bandcamp now set to free download!‏

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