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.

Jewelcase CD with 8-page booklet.
Recorded at Funeral Sound Studio, October 2010 - April 2011.
Front cover painting by Remigius van Haanen (1812-1894).

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Limited LP version released in 2005, comes in gatefold cover (limited to 500 copies).
CD version is limited to 1500 copies.

Following his praised Telepathic With the Deceased, the ever prolific Malefic returns with his fourth CD of transcendental US Black Metal. His darkest, most penetratingly best effort to date, To Violate the Oblivious is a jewel in the crown of mesmerizing Black Metal.

"The black metal equivalent to a Sergio Leone epic masterpiece film! Not of this world..." - BWBK

Two decades into their journey as ritualistic black metal conjurers, WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM have emerged from the forest with Primordial Arcana, their most majestic album to date, and their first release via Relapse Records.
Primordial Arcana is the band’s first completely self-contained work: In addition to composition and performance, brothers Aaron and Nathan Weaver alongside guitarist Kody Keyworth handled all aspects of recording, producing and mixing at their own Owl Lodge Studios in the woods of Washington state.
The album’s title is a reference to the band’s ongoing reach back to the most ancient, archetypal energies.
Leadoff track “Mountain Magick” sets the august tone with alpine guitar melodies cresting skyward in triumph. “Spirit of Lightning” returns briefly to the earthly plane as a tribute to the human connections forged in music. Meanwhile, “Primal Chasm (Gift of Fire)” is an explosion of cosmic grandeur, a symphonic rendering of the hermetic maxim As above, so below as envisioned by Keyworth. In fact, Primordial Arcana is the first WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM record in which Kody was a part of the writing process from the start, so it benefits from his background in cosmic funeral doom.
Always uncompromising, Primordial Arcana sees WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM stay true to their unique vision. An album born out of the DIY ethos, Primordial Arcana proves to be the band’s most genuine and focused. One of the year’s most ambitious recordings, Primordial Arcana cements WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM’s legacy as one of US Black Metal’s most daring, unique, and quintessential bands.

Originally released in 1998 by Necropolis Records, Past Is Alive shows off early Dissection and Satanized (because they featured Jon Nodtveidt, Tobbe Kellgren and Johan Norman) material from 1989-1994. It is also worth noting that Satanized featured a member of Lord Belial. Karmageddon Media. 2005.

by William York

Legitimate contenders to the claim of "world's most insane extreme metal band," Australia's Sadistik Exekution formed in the mid-'80s and remained steadfastly committed to playing the fastest, most violently over-the-top music they could throughout their career. In some ways old-school and in others nearly avant-garde, their style mixed together aspects of black, thrash, death, and doom metal, often played at incredibly fast speeds, while at others rendered at a nearly dirge-like crawl. The group was founded in 1986 by vocalist Rok and bassist Dave Slave, although it took several changes before the rest of the lineup settled in place. During the late '80s, Rok and Slave moving to Melbourne and back, as well as trying a couple of lineups with members (or ex-members) of another Aussie extreme metal band, Slaughterlord, but nothing stuck. By 1988, however, the band did manage to settle on a quartet lineup -- rounded out by guitarist Rev. Kriss Hades and drummer Sloth -- long enough to record the material for their first LP. Still, it took two more years for the record, eventually entitled The Magus, to get released (the label was Vampire Records). Around this time, in 1991, Sadistik Exekution played their first live show, to a large crowd in their hometown of Sydney.

Work on their second release, eventually to be entitled We Are Death - Fukk You, finally began in 1993, this time with yet another new member on board, the Machanik (in place of drummer Sloth). This album was finally finished and released in 1994 on the French-based Osmose Productions label. In support of We Are Death, Sadistik Exekution embarked on their first European tour, with labelmates Absu and Impaled Nazarene also on hand; however, since the Machanik had fallen victim to mental instability issues, a new drummer again had to be found, this time in the form of Skitz (from the Aussie hardcore band Damaged). Upon returning, the band set about recording their next album,K.A.O.S., released in 1997 on Shock and later re-released in 2000 on Osmose. More instability followed, along with rumors that the band had finally broken up, but true to form, they came back from the dead yet again to release another album. Simply entitled Fukk, it came out in 2002, once again on Osmose, and showed that the band had no intentions of letting up or taming their act anytime soon.

All copies come with black record and 12"x12" 16-page booklet