The black metal orthodoxy of Totenwache is evident in their press photos, resplendent as they are with corpse paint, invisible oranges, and grim expressions. Their logo has not one but two inverted crosses in it. This is, in fact, your father’s black metal. But damn it if they don’t make that seem exciting! Der Schwarze Hort, the Hamburg band’s debut full-length following a demo and a split release with their fellow countrymen in Mavorim, is a scornful, if surprisingly slick, black metal assault that hearkens to the genre’s mid-’90s boom. Totenwache especially excel when their songs break into huge, swelling melodies, perhaps showing the way forward for a band who shows tremendous promise.

Realisation: Reiger Recording Studio, Nieuwe Pekela, 2005.
Cover artwork – Bill Maerklin
Mastering – Jim O'Rourke
Producer – Ilse Kayn

With Wave Interference, Düsseldorf-based ambient dub & space music pioneer Lars Leonhard returns to Synphaera with a follow-up to 2020’s best-selling album, Spaceflight. A long-time collaborator with the American space agency NASA, Lars’s deep & propulsive music is often featured in their scientific videos on stars, space and the planets of our solar system.
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released June 18, 2024
Written and Produced by Lars Leonhard
Mastered by Don Tyler at IO Mastering
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Cat. Nr. IVR240
After 7 long years of silence, Martin Lang's TODESSTOSS return with a new full-length, "Das Liebweh-Dekret", yet another masterful effort by the German artist, active for almost 25 years behind the Traumorgane moniker in multiple art fields and author of a surreal and unconventional black metal.
The sound is raw and sharp, perfectly calibrated on oblique and sinister melodies always on the verge of derailing. Compared to the latest works, namely "Hirngemeer" (2015) and "Ebne Graun" (2017), the depressive black metal component is perhaps more evident, so much so that "Das Liebweh-Dekret" seems to reconnect the threads with dark jewels of the past such as "Sehnsucht" and "Spiegel der Urängste", but with more theatrical emphasis. The genius of Lang makes every composition unpredictable and exciting, in its development as well as in the menacing atmospheres and in the twisted arrangements, in which echoes of his dark electronic project, Venuspuls, are also recognizable.
Sixty-four minutes long and accompanied by a rich graphic apparatus which - as in every work by TODESSTOSS - amalgamates together lyrics, music and images, "Das Liebweh-Dekret" is an exhibition of atrocities, a theater of the absurd, the musical representation of a physical and mental discomfort that Lang transforms into an extreme artistic gesture.

Dutch remastered reissue for the German metal act. Includesfour bonus tracks, 'Armies Of Hell', 'Tormentor', 'Cry War'and 'Bonebreaker'. 2000 release. Standard jewel case.

这个唱片有多个头衔，可以被称做是 Thrash Metal 历史上最精彩的唱片，也可以是最经典的德国式 Thrash Metal 代表作品，同时也是 KREATOR乐队自己的颠峰之作。
KREATOR也是在第二张作品中带来了自己最富创造力的作品，以至于自己都不能超越。从最开始的 Intro 到后面的8首歌曲，唱片建立一起一个没有缺憾的，传统 Thrash Metal 氛围。紧凑、流畅的旋律和套路是80年代金属的标志性做法，KREATOR显然是这方面的高手，不但变化繁多，而且衔接流畅。作为高手更重要的是，他们的Riff编得都很容易让人记住，听几编以后你会对唱片里面的歌曲留下深刻的印象。（如果你记不住，那么说明你还不够金属迷）。另外主唱表现也很出色，愤怒，沙哑，撕裂。
唱片的封面是曾经给 CELTIC FROST设计封面的大师完成；同时KREATOR主题也很NB，全部都是杀戮和邪魔的故事，不亚于同期的SLAYER。整个唱片一气呵成，可以说这张唱片是一张真正的 Thrash，没有半点折扣。

As a highly respected household name in the metal community for over 20 years, the release of a new Kreator album is a true event. Having been on the leading edge of the thrash metal revolution, these German legends have amassed a body of work that has become mandatory listening for any discerning metal fan. The new album, Enemy Of God, contains every bit of the vicious edge, acidic lyric, and undeniably strong songwriting skills that have earned them endless praise from around the world. As a new generation of metal bands continue their rise in America (Lamb Of God, Shadows Fall, etc.) the enduring influence of Kreator and their peers has never been more astoundingly clear. The leaders have returned!