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British Grindcore pioneers NAPALM DEATH never slow down, but after their much lauded 16th studio album “Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism” (2020) and a total of by now 4 decades (!) of intense and restless activity, it’s time to look back and re-issue two of the outstanding albums from their ample and valuable back-catalogue: “Time Waits For No Slave” (2009) and “Utilitarian” (2012). Both albums are now finally available again as Jewelcase CD for Midprice and as LP on 180g vinyl. Look out for further NAPALM DEATH re-issues coming soon…

British Grindcore pioneers NAPALM DEATH never slow down, but after their much lauded 16th studio album “Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism” (2020) and a total of by now 4 decades (!) of intense and restless activity, it’s time to look back and re-issue two of the outstanding albums from their ample and valuable back-catalogue: “Time Waits For No Slave” (2009) and “Utilitarian” (2012). Both albums are now finally available again as Jewelcase CD for Midprice and as LP on 180g vinyl. Look out for further NAPALM DEATH re-issues coming soon…

Napalm's 2000 album now re-released on Red Vinyl

Universally credited as the band that invented grindcore, it's no
exaggeration to say that Napalm Death are one of the most important
acts in metal history
Earache Records' third ever release (MOSH003), classic debut album 'Scum' had
an immediate, seismic impact in 1987 and its influence can still be felt far and
wide today. To celebrate its 35th anniversary, this essential album is repressed
with a limited-edition Blue colour sleeve. An absolute 'must have' for any heavy
metal collector. Pressed from the original master tapes, the album has been
specially recreated using 'fdr' – full dynamic range mastering - allowing the
music's nuances to shine through and giving the classic album a more ferocious
and dynamic sound, enabling the listener to immerse in the full audio heaviness
like never before.
LP Tracks: Multinational Corporations / Instinct of Survival / The Kill / Scum /
Caught in a Dream / Polluted Minds / Sacrificed / Siege of Power / Control / Born
On Your Knees / Human Garbage / You Suffer / Life? / Prison Without Walls /
Point of No Return / Negative Approach / Success? / Deceiver / C.S. / Parasites /
Pseudo Youth / Divine Death / As the Machine Rolls On / Common Enemy / Moral
Crusade / Stigmatized / M.A.D / Dragnet

Universally credited as the band that invented grindcore, it's no
exaggeration to say that Napalm Death are one of the most important
acts in metal history
Earache Records' third ever release (MOSH003), classic debut album 'Scum' had
an immediate, seismic impact in 1987 and its influence can still be felt far and
wide today. To celebrate its 35th anniversary, this essential album is repressed
with a limited-edition Blue colour sleeve. An absolute 'must have' for any heavy
metal collector. Pressed from the original master tapes, the album has been
specially recreated using 'fdr' – full dynamic range mastering - allowing the
music's nuances to shine through and giving the classic album a more ferocious
and dynamic sound, enabling the listener to immerse in the full audio heaviness
like never before.
LP Tracks: Multinational Corporations / Instinct of Survival / The Kill / Scum /
Caught in a Dream / Polluted Minds / Sacrificed / Siege of Power / Control / Born
On Your Knees / Human Garbage / You Suffer / Life? / Prison Without Walls /
Point of No Return / Negative Approach / Success? / Deceiver / C.S. / Parasites /
Pseudo Youth / Divine Death / As the Machine Rolls On / Common Enemy / Moral
Crusade / Stigmatized / M.A.D / Dragnet

Universally credited as the band that invented grindcore, it's no
exaggeration to say that Napalm Death are one of the most important
acts in metal history
Earache Records' third ever release (MOSH003), classic debut album 'Scum' had
an immediate, seismic impact in 1987 and its influence can still be felt far and
wide today. To celebrate its 35th anniversary, this essential album is repressed
with a limited-edition Blue colour sleeve. An absolute 'must have' for any heavy
metal collector. Pressed from the original master tapes, the album has been
specially recreated using 'fdr' – full dynamic range mastering - allowing the
music's nuances to shine through and giving the classic album a more ferocious
and dynamic sound, enabling the listener to immerse in the full audio heaviness
like never before.
LP Tracks: Multinational Corporations / Instinct of Survival / The Kill / Scum /
Caught in a Dream / Polluted Minds / Sacrificed / Siege of Power / Control / Born
On Your Knees / Human Garbage / You Suffer / Life? / Prison Without Walls /
Point of No Return / Negative Approach / Success? / Deceiver / C.S. / Parasites /
Pseudo Youth / Divine Death / As the Machine Rolls On / Common Enemy / Moral
Crusade / Stigmatized / M.A.D / Dragnet

This record is part of "Be The Change", a project conceived and developed by Rude Cares, aiming at raising awareness towards climate change and environmental impact within the Music Community. We envision a global economy that uses business as a force for good.

And we are on a mission to make our Earth a better place through music! We’ve selected Artists who share this vision, and we designed exclusive and limited ecofriendly variants of one of their records to offer to fans globally.

For each release, a donation to Green Future Project will be made, and 100 new trees will be planted. 2 LP Printed on eco-friendly LP, sustainable production process. Hand-numbered. Exclusive
gatefold w/ varnish inserts. INDIE ONLY!

Napalm Death's "Apex Predator – Easy Meat," released in 2015, is a visceral exploration of
societal and economic injustices, delivered with the band's trademark intensity. This album
presents an overwhelming spread of wildly diverse musical abrasion from the grind chiefs.
A contemporary noise classic, "Apex Predator" showcases the band's ability to innovate
within the extreme music genre.

Napalm Death's album "The Code is Red...Long Live the Code" is a sonic onslaught that
captures the band's raw intensity and unyielding commitment to grindcore. Released in
2005, this album showcases the grind luminaries unmasking global fear and paranoia
through fast, unremitting audio-terror.
With blistering speed, punishing riffs, and brutal vocals, Napalm Death confronts the
listener with themes of political corruption, societal decay, and existential dread. The
album features notable guest appearances, including Jello Biafra of Dead Kennedys and
Jamey Jasta of Hatebreed

Napalm Death's album "The Code is Red...Long Live the Code" is a sonic onslaught that
captures the band's raw intensity and unyielding commitment to grindcore. Released in
2005, this album showcases the grind luminaries unmasking global fear and paranoia
through fast, unremitting audio-terror.
With blistering speed, punishing riffs, and brutal vocals, Napalm Death confronts the
listener with themes of political corruption, societal decay, and existential dread. The
album features notable guest appearances, including Jello Biafra of Dead Kennedys and
Jamey Jasta of Hatebreed

Napalm Death's "Time Waits for No Slave," released in 2009, is a relentless onslaught of grindcore fury and socio-political commentary. This album sees the band continuing to push the boundaries of extreme music, delivering a blistering blend of speed, aggression, and thought-provoking lyrics.

With this album, Napalm Death reaffirms their status as grindcore pioneers, delivering a work that is both musically and lyrically uncompromising. "Time Waits for No Slave" stands as a testament to the band's enduring relevance and their unyielding drive to challenge the status quo through the power of extreme music.

Napalm Death's "Time Waits for No Slave," released in 2009, is a relentless onslaught of grindcore fury and socio-political commentary. This album sees the band continuing to push the boundaries of extreme music, delivering a blistering blend of speed, aggression, and thought-provoking lyrics.

With this album, Napalm Death reaffirms their status as grindcore pioneers, delivering a work that is both musically and lyrically uncompromising. "Time Waits for No Slave" stands as a testament to the band's enduring relevance and their unyielding drive to challenge the status quo through the power of extreme music.

Napalm Death's "Smear Campaign," released in 2006, stands as a powerful statement against religious dogma and societal oppression. This album delivers free-thinking, free-form grindcore from the grind majors that dismantles religious burden myth-by-myth.

With its relentless energy and incisive lyrics, "Smear Campaign" continues the band's tradition of merging ferocious soundscapes with thought-provoking themes.

Napalm Death's "Leaders Not Followers: Part 2" is a ferocious tribute to the band's roots
and influences, released in 2004. This album is a follow-up to their 1999 EP "Leaders Not
Followers" and features Napalm Death scouring the underground with this all-out max
distortion covers treatment.
It comprises 19 tracks that pay homage to punk, hardcore, and metal acts that shaped their
sound and the extreme music landscape.

Die Kult-Black-Metal-Band NARGAROTH veröffentlicht jetzt 4 ihrer Full-Length-Alben via Season of Mist auf L

FFV: Tsjuder, Gorgoroth, Mayhem, Darkthrone, Marduk

Die Kult-Black-Metal-Band NARGAROTH veröffentlicht jetzt 4 ihrer Full-Length-Alben via Season of Mist auf Vinyl!

FFV: Tsjuder, Gorgoroth, Mayhem, Darkthrone, Marduk

Die Kult-Black-Metal-Band NARGAROTH veröffentlicht jetzt 4 ihrer Full-Length-Alben via Season of Mist auf Vinyl!

FFV: Tsjuder, Gorgoroth, Mayhem, Darkthrone, Marduk

Die Kult-Black-Metal-Band NARGAROTH veröffentlicht jetzt 4 ihrer Full-Length-Alben via Season of Mist auf Vinyl!

FFV: Tsjuder, Gorgoroth, Mayhem, Darkthrone, Marduk

Now, in a time of uncertainty, Belgium’s NASTY is bringing the certainty of crushing sounds with their Century Media debut full-length, “Menace”. According to the band, “Menace” partially manifested itself during these globally turbulent times. “When the pandemic started it hit us all pretty bad during the recording and writing process. We wanted to write about the craziness in this world. This world is a menace for you, but you are also in danger of becoming a menace to this world through the input given by it.” “Menace” is 14 tracks of pure, pummeling musical violence. Recorded by Andy Posdziech (Any Given Day), “Menace” fits perfectly within NASTY’s mantra, “Four dudes doing fucked up music for a fucked up world.” Traditional song structures are sacked and replaced with stream of consciousness time signatures, breakdowns that drop like boulders with no warning, and Matthi - who handles all the vocals on the record - sounds like he’s screaming himself inside-out on every track. “Menace” could be NASTY’s most vengeful release to date. It is the sonic equivalent of a massive contusion. The front cover, done by artist Michael Shantz (Bring Me The Horizon, Your Demise, Drop Dead Clothing and many more), was already finished in late 2019, but turned out to be strangely fitting for these times. The band comments: “Our only guideline was capturing the insanity of the world including all kinds of nowadays’ additions. We gave him free rein and this is what he came up with.” Despite it’s caustic and chaotic nature, NASTY hopes that fans can find some catharsis in “Menace”. “We hope ‘Menace’ shows that you are not alone facing the problems the pandemic brings with it, and gives you new energy to fight through its effects.”

Former In the Woods... members deliver epic Norwegian Black Metal to takes you into the night sky!

It’s the moment just after the tree-root thick tangle of guitars come in and the luminous clean vocals light up the sky while the keyboards suddenly shine from below: when the singing enters on ‘Astrologer’, the first track of Nattehimmel’s first album “Mourningstar”, that one might actually hear a continuation from In The Woods...’s legendary “Omnio” album from 1997. None of the 5 members are strangers to one another, having met before in bands such as In The Woods... and Strange New Dawn.
We guarantee that the members regard “Omnio” pretty highly.
Enough to revere it though? The similarity is not likely to be incidental, and anyway proves fleeting in the context of the 8 songs on “Mournigstar”, this new union turning out
very creative in shaping their Black Metal with a variety of elements. Primarily, the vocals set Nattehimmel apart from many other acts of this nature by including a variety of tropes from harsh growls to monkish groans to undead rasps, plus other backing parts that overlay the slightly echoey production with a ton of reson.

On ‘Towards the Tomb of Times’ NAXEN consolidates their own contemporary take on black metal which is both truthful to the Scandinavian heritage and incorporates the atmospheric counterpart of USBM and Eastern European Melodies. With four tracks spanning over 47 minutes, the album explores the weakness of mankind, the unavoidable loss and the inevitable failure of our species. Acknowledging that all hope is lost and remains redundant in the end, transcendence is sought through fire, the perishment of flesh and death as the ultimate liberation. These feelings of existential disappointment, depression and despair flow through the melodies, revolve in the lyrics and are captured in the visuals (by Arjen Kunnen). The layout is crafted by Tobias Hahn. The album is mixed and mastered by Andy Roscyzk (Ultha) at Goblin Sound encapturing the veritable coldness and giving transparency to the multi-layered essence of the songs. All those elements constituting ‘Towards the Tomb of Times’ and their songs of darkness and loss engraved on this record are illustrative of how NAXEN has progressed dramatically in terms of sound and song-writing since their original conception in 2018.

Hier kommt das ultimative Rockerlebnis. Die Best Of 1LP von Nazareth ist eine Symphonie von Rockhymnen, die dich umhauen wird. Spür die Kraft der Liebe und des Schmerzes mit den eindringlichen Melodien von "Love Hurts". Lass deiner Fantasie freien Lauf mit dem epischen "Dream On", in dem Träume durch elektrisierende Gitarrenriffs Wirklichkeit werden.

Machen Dich bereit, deine wilde Seite zu entfesseln mit dem zeitlosen
Klassiker "Hair Of The Dog", einer headbangenden Reise durch die Jahrhunderte.

Die Best Of 1LP von Nazareth garantiert einen adrenalingeladenen Ritt in das Herz des Rock 'n' Roll.

Verpasse nicht deine Chance, diese legendäre Sammlung kultiger Tracks zu besitzen. Holen Dir jetzt jetzt dein Exemplar und lass Dich von der Musik auf eine wilde, unvergessliche Reise mitnehmen.

Die Ausnahme Progressive Black Metaller NE OBLIVISCARIS sind nach über 5 Jahren endlich mit einem neuen Album zurück! "Exul" verkörpert das unverwechselbare, grenzüberschreitende Ethos von Ne Obliviscaris. Das Markenzeichen der Band, eine Mischung aus Emotion und Schönheit, ist so überwältigend wie immer, wenn nicht sogar noch fesselnder, besonders wie sich die eindringlichen Geigenlinien sorgfältig um die Riffs herum schlängeln. Die Dualität von Charles' cleanem Gesang und Xenoyrs Growls bleibt der erzählerische Anker und hebt Songs hervor, die Raffinesse ausstrahlen und eine Meisterklasse in Komposition sind.

Die Ausnahme Progressive Black Metaller NE OBLIVISCARIS sind nach über 5 Jahren endlich mit einem neuen Album zurück! "Exul" verkörpert das unverwechselbare, grenzüberschreitende Ethos von Ne Obliviscaris. Das Markenzeichen der Band, eine Mischung aus Emotion und Schönheit, ist so überwältigend wie immer, wenn nicht sogar noch fesselnder, besonders wie sich die eindringlichen Geigenlinien sorgfältig um die Riffs herum schlängeln. Die Dualität von Charles' cleanem Gesang und Xenoyrs Growls bleibt der erzählerische Anker und hebt Songs hervor, die Raffinesse ausstrahlen und eine Meisterklasse in Komposition sind.

Die Ausnahme Progressive Black Metaller NE OBLIVISCARIS sind nach über 5 Jahren endlich mit einem neuen Album zurück! "Exul" verkörpert das unverwechselbare, grenzüberschreitende Ethos von Ne Obliviscaris. Das Markenzeichen der Band, eine Mischung aus Emotion und Schönheit, ist so überwältigend wie immer, wenn nicht sogar noch fesselnder, besonders wie sich die eindringlichen Geigenlinien sorgfältig um die Riffs herum schlängeln. Die Dualität von Charles' cleanem Gesang und Xenoyrs Growls bleibt der erzählerische Anker und hebt Songs hervor, die Raffinesse ausstrahlen und eine Meisterklasse in Komposition sind.

Erscheint als Re-Release auf schwarzem Vinyl.

Ihrem Stil sind Neaera definitiv treu geblieben, haben sie doch noch eine Schippe mehr melodischen Death Metal auf die Waagschale gelegt und ihr Songwriting um einiges reifen lassen. Zur soundtechnischen Perfektion hat sich die Band dieses Mal in den dänischen Hansen Studios von Erfolgsproduzent Jacob Hansen einquartiert, der in gewohnter Art und Weise das perfekte Ergebnis für ein druckvolles Death Metal-Album erzielte. Noch dazu geben sich auf "Let The Tempest Come" mit Kevin Otto (End Of Days) und Jacob Bredahl (Hatesphere) hochkarätige Gastsänger ein Stelldichein!

Erscheint als Re-Release auf schwarzem Vinyl.

"The rising tide of oblivion" - das Debutalbum der Münsteraner Metalcore-Combo Neaera! Dichte Gitarrenwände, ordentliches Geknüppel und ein Schuss schwedischen Death Metals weisen den Weg in den Metalcore-Himmel. An der Produktion haben die Herren natürlich auch nicht gespart. Fetter geht's nimmer!

On February 28th 2020 NEAERA released their 7th album – it was their self-titled comeback record after a 7-year-hiatus - which caught everyone by surprise. Despite having been very well perceived the pandemic impeded the band’s long awaited and already scheduled return to the live stages. On February 29th 2020, NEAERA played a successful and sold out release show in the band’s hometown, but it remained the only show for the record in years since Wacken, the Impericon festivals and other shows had to be postponed until further notice which was a huge setback for the ambitious quintet. Sebastian Heldt (drums), Tobias Buck (guitar) and Stefan Keller (guitar) used the unfortunate state of the pandemic and the impossibility to play live shows to create something new. Together with Marcus Bischoff of German metalcore institution Heaven Shall Burn and old friend Tristan Hachmeister they unearthed a black metal project by the name of OUR LOSS IS TOTAL and released the bleak full-length record “I” end of 2022 through the project’s own label. After that release, the NEAERA band members decided it was time write new material. The band wanted to go back to an old school approach, like in the old days, when they wrote the songs together in their little rehearsal room in their hometown of Münster, North Rhine Westphalia, Germany. The band started the writing process in September 2021, skipped the first material and then started with a new approach to a more free and less comfortable style, trying to leave old boundaries behind. By 2022, NEAERA played the postponed Wacken Open Air show – which was an overwhelming experience – and asked Janosch Rathmer (drummer of long-time friends and post rock institution Long Distance Calling) to record the band’s new album ALL IS DUST. The mixing and mastering was skilfully handled by Kristian Kohle at Kohlekeller Studios (Powerwolf, Aborted, Electric Callboy) who adorned the songs with the exact right powerful yet organic sound. In terms of lyrics, NEAERA shifted their approach a little bit and put the individual and its survival and well-being center stage – beside lyrics that deal with global or social clamour; a shift that can be called pandemic infused. 2024 marks the 20th band anniversary and is the perfect timing to release the eighth studio album, ALL IS DUST. Nothing can stop the band this year with two video clips at hand and prestigious summer festivals confirmed such as Summer Breeze, Reload and Vainstream Rockfest, the latter being the album release show in front of 20,000 people!

French/Swiss/Canadian hybrid Death Metal of the absolute highest calibre. Essential listening for fans of Immolation, Akercocke, Morbid Angel and Celtic Frost.